An October 4, 2024 Wall Street Journal essay ("Why Do Older People Waste Their Time Playing Dumb Phone Games?") aroused these thoughts - Getting old isn't easy. It causes anxiety which the mind naturally tries to reduce using its innate obsessive-compulsive ego defense and video game playing is heavily obsessive-compulsive. This explains why such games are popular with other age groups too, especially anxious troubled teenagers since it reduces their anxiety while playing them.
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