i'm sort of periodically horrified that video games exist
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Do you feel the same about other entertainment? Movies, board games?
people don't spend hundreds to thousands of hours on a single movie and board games you at least have to play in person with other people. feels to me like the art of human hacking is noticeably more advanced in the video game area than most others. porn maybe also?
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Is “being fun” hacking human attention? The game developer is certainly attempting to create an experience that people want to pay attention to, but that’s seems like blaming an artist for making something cool so people look at it
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The kind of games you play alone tend to be effectively interactive 20 hour long movies, and the kind of games of you play for thousands of hours tend to be pretty social and involve playing with other folks as far as I can tell
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