[Radim]

The long-anticipated "mental gym" industry! Where people pay to exercise their atrophied mental muscles the same way they exercise their barely-needed physical muscles now.

With all the associated bullshit and snake oil and romanticizing of the "good old natty days" too, of course.

Big $$$ industry, at least until our brave future does away with voluntary reproduction altogether, being the reason people bother to exercise in the first place.

[riwsky]

What are all video games if not mental gyms?

[wegfawefgawefg]

mental cake and junk food

[AlexeyBelov]

I don't think this analogy works. You spend energy (just a different kind) playing games.

[wegfawefgawefg]

Not everybody is playing factorio or caves of qud. A lot of people are doing color match and fetch quests. It's about as mentally engaging as walking.

[riwsky]

you say this as if walking didn’t have plenty of cognitive benefits

[wegfawefgawefg]

I meant the cognitive load of ambulation itself. Not the self reflection time or exercise.

I do hope people choose a nice walk over color match games.