Comment on New Teslas might lose Steam

• lud@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol, games are far far far less addictive than cigarettes. Cigarettes has nicotine which is an actual addictive drug. Games are fun.

  Even comparing them at all is fairly disingenuous.

  It’s not distracting anyone, I doubt it could even be played if you are in a queue that is moving at 0,3 m/s

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  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not trying to compare them on a chemical or scientific level.

    I’m just saying that I was able to quit cigarettes and I have had some friends who are not able to quit video games, so it is at least a little addictive for some people, and those people would not be better served by one more place to play.

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    • Entropywins@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I quit heroin but I have friends that can’t give up coffee…we should remove cupholders from cars while we are at it.

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      • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hey, congrats! I’m 14 years clean from heroin myself.

        Ok, I can see my opinion is in the minority here. Games in cars seems like a bad idea to me, but I’m not the king of cars.

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, games can be addictive for some people but it’s comparably very rare. “Punishing” the huge majority of non gaming addicts based on that seems extreme. And I don’t think it would matter for addicts anyway.

      Addicts would find a computer to play on anyway because they are addicted. In some ways it could be argued that it might even help addicts because using this thing they could get away from their homes and so stuff outside while still having easy access to something they like.

      Another difference between smoking and gaming is that smoking harms and annoys everyone around you, while gaming doesn’t actually harm anyone. Except if you refuse to eat or something but that would be even more rare.

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