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>The ability to manage your inventory, interact with characters, make choices and deal with the consequences are all great for expanding your mind.

Have you tried playing Minecraft with mods? You know, something like GT New Horizons or Omnifactory. Those will melt your brain. They are the equivalent of climbing a mountain vs taking a leisurely stroll (reading). The idea that reading would be as mentally stimulating as that sounds ridiculous to me.

"Some RPGs". You have seen nothing. Nothing at all.

[Filligree]

There's a strange assumption going around the (western?) world that, because something is fun for children, it must be bad for you.