What makes it specifically better and why was that so easy to discover? Additionally, if it is obvious, as you say, then how do you reconcile that with the number of people who are checking out of society to disappear into video games, particularly in Japan?

I guess what I'm curious of is this: What do games offer these people that reality doesn't? I'm not talking about people who play casually here and there, but rather people who spend well over twenty hours per week playing games, sometimes longer.