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Re:Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual... by travisjungroth on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:03AM (#26711865)
In my personal experience, yes. Absolutely yes. In a way that chess, novels and geometry do not. I think there's a strong correlation (I'll even say causation) for me between spending less time on sites like reddit and sharing/cultivating my own intellectual potential in meaningful ways.
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Re:Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual... by hombre_fatal on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:05PM (#26713575)
I think it all comes down to fulfillment.

Few of us particularly like how much time we spend on HN/Reddit or go “yeah really glad I’m spending my precious time in this way!” yet we do tend to feel fulfillment from activities like reading a novel or trying to write one or many of the activities we pretend are just the same as playing World or Warcraft and watching Netflix.

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