{"id":88889,"date":"2024-08-12T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=88889"},"modified":"2024-08-11T10:13:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T14:13:22","slug":"qotd-the-key-attraction-of-video-games-to-young-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/08\/12\/qotd-the-key-attraction-of-video-games-to-young-men\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The key attraction of video games to young men"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>That would explain video game escapism\/addiction amongst men. It&#8217;s a little world where there are predictable rules and outcomes and one can succeed much easier than in the unpredictable real world with ever-changing rules.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think this is a really important point deserving of more attention. <\/p>\n<p>Yes. Video games are a drug aimed straight at the receptor that is male need for agency. They&#8217;re a superstimulus for it in exactly the same way that pornography is a superstimulus for desire.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a policy prescription about this or anything. But it&#8217;s a connection that matters.<\/p>\n<p>ESR, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esrtweet\/status\/1787625919613403612\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a>, 2024-05-06.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That would explain video game escapism\/addiction amongst men. It&#8217;s a little world where there are predictable rules and outcomes and one can succeed much easier than in the unpredictable real world with ever-changing rules. I think this is a really important point deserving of more attention. Yes. Video games are a drug aimed straight at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,66,41],"tags":[1235,139],"class_list":["post-88889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-health-science","category-quotations","tag-esr","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-n7H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90992,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88889\/revisions\/90992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}