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The long-anticipated "mental gym" industry! Where people pay to exercise their atrophied mental muscles the same way they exercise their barely-needed physical
by Radim 3y ago
The long-anticipated "mental gym" industry! Where people pay to exercise their atrophied mental muscles the same way they exercise their barely-needed physical muscles now.
With all the associated bullshit and snake oil and romanticizing of the "good old natty days" too, of course.
Big $$$ industry, at least until our brave future does away with voluntary reproduction altogether, being the reason people bother to exercise in the first place.
- riwsky 3y agoWhat are all video games if not mental gyms?
- wegfawefgawefg 3y agomental cake and junk food
- AlexeyBelov 3y agoI don't think this analogy works. You spend energy (just a different kind) playing games.
- wegfawefgawefg 3y agoNot everybody is playing factorio or caves of qud. A lot of people are doing color match and fetch quests. It's about as mentally engaging as walking.
- riwsky 3y agoyou say this as if walking didn’t have plenty of cognitive benefits
- wegfawefgawefg 3y agoI meant the cognitive load of ambulation itself. Not the self reflection time or exercise. I do hope people choose a nice walk over color match games.