• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    I was replaying Super Mario Bros a while ago and it was really striking to me how deliberate the game seems to be about trying to teach patience and impulse control. Games ask more from you than social media content does.

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      2 days ago

      Yes! Thank you for putting this into words, I had the same experience recently but couldn’t articulate what I was feeling…

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      2 days ago

      Platformers, metroidvanias, soulslikes, puzzlers… some games are almost brutal in how they demand patience and focus!