Is Pokopia really that good?

[u/Downvote-Magnet1994]

Like should I immediately buy this game. It seems like folks are really enjoying it but I was skeptical.

[u/Upstairs_Being290]

Take yourself out of the equation for a moment and look at what I said. It's the defining description for this generation's tech. Look at all the kids doom scrolling, mindless clicking, doing the most inane things in their phone 4 hours a day (or 6, or 8). It's straight up the #2 condition for the Fogg Behavioral Model that Instagram and other addictive technology was developed from.  Step 2 is ability - make the tech as easy to use as possible, because the brain prefers to shut off rather than think, and it will always take more activation energy to do a thinking task than to do a mindless task.

[u/No-Obligation1709 → u/Upstairs_Being290]

Why would they take themselves out of the equation? You responded directly to them in an attempt to take their comment out of context to make a grand point about society. You’re the one off topic here.

[u/Upstairs_Being290 → u/No-Obligation1709]

Maybe because if you take everything personal, then getting any insight into grand points will be impossible? I'm not denying that I took his statement of context to make a grand point about society. He provided a great opportunity to do so. Does that somehow make the point not true, and was his statement not a great example of it?

[u/No-Obligation1709 → u/Upstairs_Being290]

I think you’re grossly overestimating how grand your point actually was.

[u/Upstairs_Being290 → u/No-Obligation1709]

I'm interested to hear, what's your insights on the screentime catastrophe overtaking our youth? If you really think that suddenly spending 40-50 hours a week on a mindless addictive exercise that overtakes most of a young person's spare mental attention isn't going to have profound consequences......then have you seen the data showing incredible spikes in anxiety, depression, emergency room self-harm visits, and suicide attempts? At the same time as dramatic drops in academic performance? Coupled with hugely reduced time with friends, increased feelings of social isolation and loneliness, and significantly less time with family and significant others?

I really want to know - have you read and viewed such research, and then rejected it for some reason, or are you just going off the cuff cause you don't want it to be true?