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114 The real reasons people love playing games

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Sean Illing @ Vox 3 place · 02/15/2026 06:45 EDT

The real reasons people love playing games

Games are often treated as trivial. They can be seen as mere distractions. At worst, they’re time-wasting indulgences. The philosopher C. Thi Nguyen thinks that framing is a big mistake. In his book The Score, Nguyen argues that games are one of the clearest windows we have into how human agency actually works. Games show […]

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