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Based on market size and broadness of appeal, I think that video games in general are significantly less addictive than social media or gambling, which have much wider appeal and greater impact. _some_ video games exploit gambling addictions, and are easily regulated (via bans on unlimited microtransactions for example, which remove the incentive for game designers to generate "whales")

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