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> Video games can be good.

I challenge you to show me a way in which video games can be optimally good. Not just better than some carefully selected bad alternative, but better than any alternative. As in, actually a good thing to do of all options available.

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That's a pretty silly thing to demand. There are very few things that most people find enjoyable which are "optimally good". Requiring something to be "optimally good" in order to do it would make a quite dull life for most of us.

Flight simulators for pilots.

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