That's genuinely the quality of argument you want to mount? What, video games have left you unable to make a better account of yourself?
It's funny that you equate learning to do something better than button mashing as somehow being focused on "productivity". The hours you've wasted on blinking lights could have gone to learning a musical instrument or learning woodworking or learning painting, any number of practical skills that have absolutely nothing to do with "productivity" but build you greater capability than pointless, slot machine-like ephemera of no consequence ever will.
Don't try to rationalize the nature of video games as being something more than it is. Recognize it for what it is: a dead-end, go nowhere waste of your time.
That's genuinely the quality of argument you want to mount? What, video games have left you unable to make a better account of yourself?
It's funny that you equate learning to do something better than button mashing as somehow being focused on "productivity". The hours you've wasted on blinking lights could have gone to learning a musical instrument or learning woodworking or learning painting, any number of practical skills that have absolutely nothing to do with "productivity" but build you greater capability than pointless, slot machine-like ephemera of no consequence ever will.
Don't try to rationalize the nature of video games as being something more than it is. Recognize it for what it is: a dead-end, go nowhere waste of your time.