The more effort it puts on the media consumer to engage actively over long periods of time like a game, book, textbook, etc for more gradual and lasting dopamine instead of a series of small dopamine spikes seems the trick. Social media is fast food for your attention, too much adversely effects your mental health just like too much fast food effects your physical health. Habits build results good or bad. Video games that give similar small, frequent dopamine spikes like skinner boxes (casino games, candy crush, vampire survivors, cod, etc) are probably going to be more similar to the junk food social media compared to games like journey, the last of us, puzzles, etc.
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Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)
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My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.
The more effort it puts on the media consumer to engage actively over long periods of time like a game, book, textbook, etc for more gradual and lasting dopamine instead of a series of small dopamine spikes seems the trick. Social media is fast food for your attention, too much adversely effects your mental health just like too much fast food effects your physical health. Habits build results good or bad. Video games that give similar small, frequent dopamine spikes like skinner boxes (casino games, candy crush, vampire survivors, cod, etc) are probably going to be more similar to the junk food social media compared to games like journey, the last of us, puzzles, etc.