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  • If you are captured by grindy games it fucks up your reward loop. Everyone likes to pretend they are immune, but very few are enlightened enough to actually know if they are prioritising games as pastime (relaxation / gamma wave farming / recharging), or if they are practicing, socializing, expressing creativity, learning or competing. Games are as different from each other in mode of play as every player is different in their attraction and applications of them. A disproportionate amount of players are simply captured by psychological hooks and are actively expressing an inner conflict when they ask this. If you don’t understand how gaming could be unhealthy just like gambling or disassociative drugs, then you probably need to step back from it to rekindle the joy. All of the hobbies that can be unhealthy can of course just as well be extremely helpful, especially cognitively or perceptively demanding games played with peers. It is more than being a polarized black and white debate, most games on the short list today depends on addictive qualities that have a high chance of being misused. Regulating your activities can come from many places for most people, but someone that is lonely or depressed which is kind of an epidemic now, has little stopping them from just engaging in what is basically sedative self medication, which should be self evident why it is not a healthy way to deal with those problems.