Videogames are trash

I'm thinking all this time playing and developing video games is wasted.
Video games are catering to the same zombie-TV experience and dopamine addiction roller-coaster of movie industry. Video game skills are shit and people get way unhealthier with them.
Like when you game, you don't mind eating shit food and pretend you live in the game.
But you can't live in the game or escape from life like that. Escapism is bullshit: the "We reject your reality" cliche is not about freedom, just denial.
Videogames are most degenerative brain functionality i've seen, people warp their minds around the game and plan their life towards better playtime, as if the game was really important. All these speedrunners, progamers, elite players are not gaining anything valuable,
they just adapt their brains into reflexive "game reality" instead of real life.

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achievement

I didn't achieve anything positive outside of the games.
At best it was a distraction, but it wasn't that effective as escapism. I think the whole idea of escapism in video games doesn't work, because they require too much effort for a very little "escapism": like you play more like working on the game/character/strategy/teamwork and escapism is confined to a vague feeling, the suspension of disbelief and belonging to game community.
But that isn't supporting any escapism by default, you have to believe and work toward making yourself an "escapist" by ignoring and devaluing stuff in the real world.
Basically "escapism" means your health, finances, social capital and worldview are replaced by the game status. I think of some people who could balance gaming and living, however they have iron discipline and are a tiny minority of gamers.
The whole hardcore gaming scene is filled with psychological illness and misanthropic rejects, people who worship their games at expense of everything else.
Its as if they were hiding their heads in the sand and don't care about the world around them.
This is the meaning of "escapism".