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I lean toward "efficient entertainment", but I do sometimes wonder what that chunk of my free time would look like otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can see some indie games as being easy to pick up and put down without a huge time commitment.* However, we shouldn't discount the fact that a lot of games today, especially some of the "AAA" types, are purposedly designed to be addictive.

*Despite being a small indie game, ~~Cracktorio~~ Factorio will ruin your life. The factory must grow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bigger games can also be quick. A match of rocket league is like 10 minutes. There's no story so you can pick it up and put it down whenever you want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

We also live in the golden age of indie games anyways, plenty of smaller quality games that don't demand all of your life. I haven't played a AAA game in ages. The biggest games I currently play are league of legends and that's cause I started when it was an indie company before it became AAA and ff14 and I only do ff14 like 3 hours a week or so with my fiancee cause she loves it.