[Fluorescence]

It's very weird to consider "time consumed" as a positive not negative metric.

A good piece of art changes your consciousness and makes you a different person. The best part of a book for me is not in the reading but how it becomes a part of my own imaginative engine and a new lens with which I can view the world.

I play games too... but I'm aware they are cynical time-vampires that pad out their content with repetitive grinding to jump virtual hurdles hijacking my reward centre with one-arm-bandit psychosis to make draining my life away by a rng feel "entertaining".

[dessimus]

A game that I get bored of in 20 hours versus a game I sink 200 hours into have provided different levels of entertainment value.

Even for books, a book that one enjoys reading so much that they return to multiple times is providing more entertainment value than one read once and given away.