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A young life spent playing video games can lead to a middle age without marketable skills or connections.


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Even the most open-ended games tend to offer a sense of progress and direction, completion and commitment. In other words, they make people happy—or at least happier, serving as a buffer between the player and despair. Video games, you might say, offer a sort of universal basic income for the soul.


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What good games have in common: Winnable Novel Goals Feedback