[shenanigoat]

IRL, rewards come slowly, if ever. Setbacks can cost years of loss of 'progression'. We are mostly, by definition, average, without much agency, without much optimism, without much opportunity. Video games provide the shortest path to a rich, rewarding experience for our minds. Platitudes about hard work aside (for they are for the exceptional), we are helpless in our pleasure seeking, pain avoiding minds. The disappointing mundanity of the 'real world' cannot compete.