Have you ever considered that it may not be the games doing that, but it being a symptom, serving as a form of escapeism?
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From the people who love to say "it's just words, words can't hurt you" here comes "books and words are super dangerous and needs to be banned!"
Computers and electric heaters turn near-100% of the power into heat, as do most other things. Heat is just a waste product, electric heaters work by effectively "wasting" the electricity into heat.
Electricity isn't that expensive, especially if you have renewables. Stuff and transportation is. The biggest cause for co2 at the top is consumerism.
Remember that, once you have your electronics, the entertainment you get from it is competing against entertainment from physical things, or travel, or something else.
In addition, in winter that electricity is turned into heat, which you need anyway to heat up your home. And heating has always taken much more electricity than video games in my experience.
All things considered, video games are a fairly efficient form of entertainment. You can do everything digitally (cheap), and hardware can be made to be very power efficient (it just isn't because electricity is cheap).
I feel like sex is weirdly both over and underrated by society. There's put far too much emphasis on sex as this be all end all super special thing, and at the same time it's underrated about how nice it can be if you let it and remove any hangups about it (such as religious shame), and embrace it fully (as in, accepting and indulging in kinks, your sexuality, etc.).
For me it's like, it's not a special or super serious thing at all, but it's great and can be a lot of fun, especially together with the emotional closeness. It's like a hobby. So let yourself be a sex nerd!
I think that's called "skin"
And then everyone gets mad at them because they're never reachable and causes problems lmao.
Yeah, you hit the nail on that one!
It's funny, because at first the hawkish right loved ukraine
Also possibly becoming a pathological liar.
Seriously, sometimes I catch myself thinking up coming up with lies, almost like gauging what reaction something would get.. when I could just say the truth, or even if I am saying the truth, but I feel like I won't be believed.
Okay, but unless you have a proper harness and other safety equipment, you face a heavy risk of severely, likely permanently, injuring yourself if you slip up.
VRChat is already a success, and it can be seen as an early iteration of a VR metaverse. It's just the beginning.
Well I mean, I'm not gonna keep a list of all the examples, but I do know that I struggle a lot more with finding stuff than I used to, because I remember the feeling and frustration of not being able to find the thing I know exists (or has to exist) that I want to find.
Also the front page is often full of garbage, sponsored shit, or straight up ads or scams.