I know people that read that much but we don't go around telling bookworms they're addicts.

It's up to each person to decide where the line is for them, where a satisfying hobby becomes a destructive habit. If someone has no desire to form external relationships and they're completely content with their life, good for them for figuring things out. I'm not going to impose my arbitrary rules on them.

I love RDR2 and play it passively (a few hours a week), but I completely get how someone could get sucked in like that. I can't think of any other game that provides such an immersive world, you can get lost in its details for hours on end. Just riding your horse around with no destination in mind is a very relaxing and almost therapeutic way to pass time.

>I know people that read that much but we don't go around telling bookworms they're addicts.

I don't think you really understand how much that is. That is every single day, rain or shine, healthy or sick. If you miss one day, you have to do it for 13.4 hours the next day. You absolutely do not know someone that reads that much, not for 3 years straight.

How we spend our time is as much a personal decision as how we spend our money. People can make all sorts of judgments about what's "normal," but in the end, if the person is satisfied and content with their life and they're not causing harm, then who cares how far they are from the median.

Nobody is calling the police. We are merely discussing if this is healthy behavior.

I know a lot of people who often, like maybe several days a month, will read that much. I don't know anyone who reads every day for >2 years, >6h a day unless it's (part of) their job.

But in this case it’s more like reading the one same book, over and over again for 6hrs a day, every day.

A book that gets updated with new content

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dead_Online#Additional_con...

6.7h a day during two years of a pandemic. There's likely millions of people with play hours that ballooned over the past two years because there wasn't anything else they could do.

Yeah fair that's a fucking lot.