Are video games addictive?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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What if We Designed a Game That Never Ends?
In video games, you are the player and the cage is the game. Instead of food, you receive whatever that particular game defines as an award. Unlike those poor, poor rodents in the world of skinner experiments, you can turn off the game. Game creators spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to make sure you don't leave.
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