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TV is th most passive medium, you can turn it on and let it fill your time with whatever someone else decides to show you, including adverts. Gaming is usually
by celticninja 5y ago
TV is th most passive medium, you can turn it on and let it fill your time with whatever someone else decides to show you, including adverts. Gaming is usually a conscious choice about how to spend your time and requires input and decisions from the player, the same is not true of TV. At least Netflix/prime etc require you to make a decision about what to watch.
- wccrawford 5y agoThere are tons of games these days, for PC, console and mobile, that are designed to just be time-sinks. MMOs, village sims (Harvest Moon/etc), Match-3, infinite runners... Even sports games and multiplayer shooters. They designed to be played for many, many, many hours without only slight changes most of the time so that you just keep playing. Yes, they're interactive, but you're doing the same thing over and over and it's largely non-educational, just a time-sink. Entertaining, but otherwise useless. They're the sugar of the game world. I've played plenty of them myself, but there was a long time there that I played way too much of them. A great one will still reel me in, but I prefer experiences that have a built-in end now instead. Anyhow, my point is that both TV and games can be things you can fill your time with mindlessly.