I’ve gotten sucked into games like that . . . fortunately, on a PC, which meant it took a while to start up and I couldn’t take it with me.
The sheer availability of time-suck games, thanks to tablets and smart phones, makes them especially damaging.
I’ve went totally cold-turkey on computer games. The last game I played was a solitaire adventure for Tunnels & Trolls, requiring dice and scratch paper and lots of page flipping. The frustrations and virtual absence of “eyeball kicks” makes it easy to walk away from.
