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Re:Why is China smashing its tech industry? by WalterBright on Monday August 02, 2021 @01:29PM (#28039778)
> You can stream all day and live in fantasyland.

I tried that. It soon becomes utterly boring, no matter how good the show is.

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Re:Why is China smashing its tech industry? by mc32 on Monday August 02, 2021 @01:39PM (#28039963)
It probably depends on inner will and psychological stage of mind. Do you mind being unproductive and such.
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Re:Why is China smashing its tech industry? by WalterBright on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:55PM (#28042509)
Maybe I'm different. Passive entertainment is dull to me. I don't watch other people play sports, I want to play them myself. Traveling and looking at sights rapidly gets very dull.
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Re:Why is China smashing its tech industry? by mc32 on Monday August 02, 2021 @08:13PM (#28044339)
Yes, I'd say you're not the "binge watcher". It's a phenomenon.[1] According to some researchers, this is an understudied phenomenon which may have negative correlation with mental health[2]. Of course Netflix would be loath to admit this.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge-watching

[2]http://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2019/04/kruger-binge-wa...

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