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> You don’t have time to play games anyway.

Yes. Games are a complete waste of time and the sooner you realize it the better

Why reading a fantasy book would be less of a waste of time?

Most modern "AAA" games are meant to hook you up. It's an addictive cycle, most games are also only on steam which means steam owns you. It has profiled you, your voice chats, your friends, your game habits, etc. If you'd think for even a minute, you'd realize what a shitshow modern gaming is. It's nothing but a masqueraded attempt for mass surveillance from steam and other major game stores

To me it seems you are conflicting multiplayer games with single player games. The two have very different business incentives.

And Steam has my gaming habits because I want it to have them: it provides good tips in what to buy.

Steam has none of my voice chats and the last 260 hours I played videogames, it doesn't think I even logged in. My favorite game of the year barely shows up on my profile page because I use it through a mod.

I agree on multiplayer games, but that's due to the business, single player games don't have that incentive.

And Steam is full of beautiful work of arts in the indie game space

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