> Basic human needs? Food? Water? Shelter? Meaning, accomplishments, social interactions. > If video games satisfy me like even a run would, I wouldn't run. I

> Basic human needs? Food? Water? Shelter? Meaning, accomplishments, social interactions. > If video games satisfy me like even a run would, I wouldn't run. If I play a video game for more than 10 minutes, I feel like I'm wasting my life. If I run for more than 10 minutes, I feel like I am wasting my life because cardio won't help me build muscle and it's incredibly boring. > Go outside, do something actually incredible. Meet people. Make mistakes. You can do that and play video games. In fact, in various online games, you can do both and still have insightful experiences. > Stop living in someone else's imagined world. Learn fully how to be your own human self. While your second sentence is trite garbage, you can learn a lot about yourself by playing video games. Additionally, living in someone else's imagined world can spark your own creativity. Look around for the art and music people have created based off video games, it's incredible. We have orchestras playing the soundtrack to games. We have people who have built businesses from playing video games. > Videogames couldn't be more apt for the analogy of shadows on the wall. There's real problems in the world that need to be solved? Checking out and staring at pretty patterns of light is a total cop out. What problems are you solving? World hunger? Human and sex trafficking? Domestic abuse? Drug abuse?