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I don't have cancer, but for me, video games (esp. Minecraft) provide an escape from the psychological ravages of just being a person among people.

• zacinbusiness 13y ago
  Sort of building on my previous post and re: this post, there are interesting new ways of looking at video games as a sort of modern, digital puppetry and even digital performance. The idea is that as a gamer you are taking on a new persona and even an entirely new body and, with that, you act out different aspects of your personality or explore areas of yourself that you don't get to normally explore. It's interesting, of course, because people are drawn to so many different types of game, and so you can sort of see how they are expressing a normally repressed aspect of themselves. Violent video games in particular are interesting, because people are drawn to them for so many reasons. Sometimes someone is just violent by nature, but other times they are competitive (or they wish to be), or they are just looking for the comradeship that one gains from being part of a team. So playing video games can be really useful and highly therapeutic in that way.