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Whats the attraction?

TheCatWoman

Of computer games, meta verses etc, I really don't get it, can anyone explain it to me, please? 

What do you get out of it?

I keep seeing all this stuff advertised and I hit a big concrete wall in my head and think, ouch and eh?

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  • Anywhere else and you'd have been called a troll by now!

    What I mostly get out of gaming is that I quickly become hyperfocused. Whether it's digging for gold (not a euphemism) in Minecraft, or shooting random evil dudes in Destiny 2, dropping blocks in Tetris, or solving endless Sudoku puzzles, my brain just engages 100%; everything else fades away. And that always present inner critic just shuts the heck up for a while. Ah, bliss.

    Of course, this is followed by me wondering why I've been wasting my life for the past eight hours "doing nothing" (the critic is back), but I do feel more relaxed and recharged.

    Gaming may be about as productive as staring at the flames in a fire, or watching the eddies in a flowing stream, or counting the bees and flowers in a spring meadow, but what's wrong with doing any of these things? It's all the same, really: just chillaxing.

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  • Anywhere else and you'd have been called a troll by now!

    What I mostly get out of gaming is that I quickly become hyperfocused. Whether it's digging for gold (not a euphemism) in Minecraft, or shooting random evil dudes in Destiny 2, dropping blocks in Tetris, or solving endless Sudoku puzzles, my brain just engages 100%; everything else fades away. And that always present inner critic just shuts the heck up for a while. Ah, bliss.

    Of course, this is followed by me wondering why I've been wasting my life for the past eight hours "doing nothing" (the critic is back), but I do feel more relaxed and recharged.

    Gaming may be about as productive as staring at the flames in a fire, or watching the eddies in a flowing stream, or counting the bees and flowers in a spring meadow, but what's wrong with doing any of these things? It's all the same, really: just chillaxing.

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