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games are such a personal experience that is simply much easier to talk about them at length. i also think that even if you are very blackpilled about the dark patterns at work in many modern games, it is still very easy to appreciate the value of something like the logical journey of the zoombinis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eePTsHpp1eI, sam and max: hit the road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yWnnk9fyJE, or the zachtronics games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o99hbZy8CuE&list=PLdg60-Uktz...

in what may be somewhat more of a hot take, i would argue that there is an incredible amount of educational value to be found even within the most meritless garbage games as they are still fundamentally systems to be dissected and solved and learning the maximally efficient way to do something worthless is a skillset that transfers quite handily to the valuable things in life. also unlike tv, games have a lot of potential to be immensely collaborative [or competitive] and social. some of my fondest childhood memories were going to my friend's house and co-oping diablo with one of us controlling the mouse and the other controlling the keyboard. there are many far less ad-hoc ways for kids to share games and even singleplayer is a highly rewarding shared experience.