It’s not them, it’s us: the real reason teens are ‘addicted’ to video games | Keith Stuart and Keza MacDonald
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Just to be clear, I wasnt advocating for escapism. Merely, video games are the obvious answer to “where can I exist for free/cheap?”

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I already understood that.

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