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I used to be a gamer, I know they are bad for your brain.
Some games are Skinner box slot machine dopamine pumps and stores with games attached, some are art, and everything else is somewhere in between.
There's plenty of games that are art, but you don't typically need to spend 100s of hours to appreciate them as works of art.
After playing too many games for years, my belief is that even the best games falsely and too easily satisfy our need to succeed at something.
Then play better games. There are tons of great puzzle games that make you think, sandbox games that encourage creativity, story games that deal with heavy emotions, strategy games that train tactical reasoning.
Too much of anything is bad, but you can do a lot worse than video games.
I used to be a gamer. Still am, but i used to too
Only multi-player games
Hardly. Almost all video games are pure sugar for the parts of our brains that want to succeed at something.
That's just not true. A lot of games do that, but a lot genuinely exercise your mind. Stick to the latter and avoid the skinner boxes.
Depends on the game tbh. Online PvP games are terrible for you because you are interacting with toxic scum all day most of the time. Isonzo has been a pleasant exception where the community is usually fairly nice. But most games it's awful.
I expect something like Factorio is pretty good for your brain.