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by kleiba 974 days ago
> If you enjoy building and painting miniatures then it's not wrong. It's a different hobby from wargaming though.

See, and here I disagree, and I think at least a non-trivial number of players would too.

> If it brings you joy, yes. If it just quiets the cravings for a while, no.

Too hard to reliably distinguish between the two.

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> See, and here I disagree, and I think at least a non-trivial number of players would too.

Good for them! They are not the ones we should be concerned about.

> Too hard to reliably distinguish between the two.

It's probably hard to distinguish from the outside, but it's important to cultivate that skill [edit: to evaluate one's own habits] if living in a consumerist society where most cravings can be satisfied by going to a shopping mall or to an online store.