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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by make3 on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:21PM (#15991407)
except that smart games like factorio only accounts a super tiny amount of gamers, most of which are actually playing games like league of legends, call of duty, cs go, dota 2, hearthstone and overwatch. they're all really fun games don't get me wrong.
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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by d33 on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:24PM (#15991423)
Those games still definitely involve much more than muscle memory and I'd argue that they are indeed smarter as well.
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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by make3 on Friday December 22, 2017 @06:46PM (#15991858)
they are life destroyingly addictive though. I myself have skipped classes or doing assignments to play that kind of game, which is one of the reasons why I don't game anymore
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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by funnelsgun on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:46PM (#15992429)
I used be like that when I was at school. I was addicted to Modern Warfare and later Modern Warfare 2 to the extent where I almost got kicked out of school because I was getting such poor grades.

I’m now a functioning adult and find it hard to get into video games, not because I fear I’ll get addicted but I just don’t get the same dopamine hit from games like I used to. I drive on race tracks to get that hit now.

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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by TomMarius on Saturday December 23, 2017 @08:56AM (#15994166)
Yeah, same here. I used to be "addicted" to videogames but nowadays I don't play at all. I fly planes and going to start racing next year.
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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by kbenson on Friday December 22, 2017 @06:16PM (#15991697)
People are designing circuits in Minecraft, and have been for years. That's an extreme example, but even my 8 year old son plays with redstone circuits and watches youtube howtos on how to do interesting setups in Minecraft on the Wii U.

In February of this year Minecraft apparently had 55 million players (with 122 million copies sold).[1]

1: http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/02/27/minecraft-has-55-mill...

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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by make3 on Friday December 22, 2017 @06:47PM (#15991862)
Yeah! Minecraft is really cool, I agree. Makes me miss my legos.
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