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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Some games are Skinner box slot machine dopamine pumps and stores with games attached, some are art, and everything else is somewhere in between.

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[–] dudinax@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

There's plenty of games that are art, but you don't typically need to spend 100s of hours to appreciate them as works of art.

After playing too many games for years, my belief is that even the best games falsely and too easily satisfy our need to succeed at something.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago

Then play better games. There are tons of great puzzle games that make you think, sandbox games that encourage creativity, story games that deal with heavy emotions, strategy games that train tactical reasoning.

Too much of anything is bad, but you can do a lot worse than video games.

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