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People have played games because life sucks even before the pandemic.

If your attitude towards life is that it sucks so I'll play computer games instead, it sounds like a negative feedback loop :)

Well, negative feedback loops are generally more useful than positive ones. At least in electronics...

I’m not sure if I’m reading it correctly, but if the reader has the inference / bias that playing games makes life suck, that would be a positive feedback loop (albeit with negative effects).

Negative feedback loops are self correcting. So if games make life better it would indeed be one.

depends! maybe a negative feedback loop that keeps the equilibrium on the negative side

I don't think control theory is equipped to deal with the nuisances of the human psyche x)

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