A hobby like IT or Hiking is something where you set yourself a goal in something that originally isnt made for recreational purposes, and find joy in „working“.
A Video game is Engineered to trigger Dopamine production through shaping itself for the user to be enjoyable. Every roadblock you experience, every goal you accomplish, and everything is made for you to feel like you’ve just overcome something, even tho the devs have done all that to just increase the dopamine hits
For example: When I started learning IT and Networking, I did not have a guide telling me what to do. I myself have gone in and learned about a topic most people regard as work, because it was interesting to me. Nobody has developed Java, Python, or whatever to dripfeed me dopamine. It was made to be functional.
Video games on the other hand have no functional purpose. They are made purely for you to consume, so you get a hit of dopamine, which you wont get elsewhere. It is just like Heroin. Great in small doses, but unregulated it leads to addiction. I mean just look at those Fifa kids.
Thats kinda true tho
A hobby like IT or Hiking is something where you set yourself a goal in something that originally isnt made for recreational purposes, and find joy in „working“.
A Video game is Engineered to trigger Dopamine production through shaping itself for the user to be enjoyable. Every roadblock you experience, every goal you accomplish, and everything is made for you to feel like you’ve just overcome something, even tho the devs have done all that to just increase the dopamine hits
For example: When I started learning IT and Networking, I did not have a guide telling me what to do. I myself have gone in and learned about a topic most people regard as work, because it was interesting to me. Nobody has developed Java, Python, or whatever to dripfeed me dopamine. It was made to be functional.
Video games on the other hand have no functional purpose. They are made purely for you to consume, so you get a hit of dopamine, which you wont get elsewhere. It is just like Heroin. Great in small doses, but unregulated it leads to addiction. I mean just look at those Fifa kids.