Not sure about the hed. “Losing at Checkers” would be more appropriate, I think.

And wood stoves for every household.

I’ve known one person that successfully quit and maintained. I was not that person. LOL

I think you are absolutely correct on every count and the point that I was trying to make here is that the same types of arguments are being made by the different people that there is nothing wrong with their product. It’s a problem that is being created by the user of the product, etc., etc. You can also see this with the petrochemical companies shifting the blame on the user and the plastics companies. Again, shifting the blame on the user instead of taking the blame in the production level where it should be.

The strategy is called delay, deny, defend period if it sounds familiar, it should.

I’d argue that there is appetite and that those skills have not been lost forever and while there are those that would have use only play and consume, to assume that this is the only thing happening is a bit of a reductio ad absurdum.

Guess I need to re-read my shit. Lol.

“If [cigarettes] are behaviorally addictive or habit forming, they are much more like … Gummi Bears… I’m certainly not addicted to them.”

-Philip Morris CEO

Kinda like cancer, till the US pulled out of the WHO.

It has always been and will forever be.

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They’ve left the door open to law enforcement for years. This is not new.

This article is from 2019 http://archive.today/kYbQV

…and if you believe that police really had to ask, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya.

For me, the cost benefit is about entertainment. I recognize there have been studies that supposedly show that games can help develop or maintain certain skills, but for me it’s more about learning the skill to experience the in-game reward. That’s just for some games. For others, that element exists but the game is telling a story too. One that is punctuated by struggle, maybe battles, and the overcoming which leads to power ups and more story.

So the cost-benefit is that it costs time, but it pulls you out of end-stage capitalism and puts you in flow state, engaging in another world.

I would suspect, though, that if you’re seeing video games through the lens of cost-benefit analysis, you might have trouble relaxing. People need rest.

I believe it, most especially in your specific case.

Maybe it’s about time for another essay.

I dunno, I did going in but what I got from it was his method of explaining it to people that truly don’t understand.

I’ve always liked this man. Today I love him.

I read inefficiencies of solar and immediately thought of this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

This is not enshittification. This is a calculated attack. It’s class warfare.