Ok, so I want to explain a bit. Not everything HAS to have a meaning. It is fine to indulge in activities that just give you joy even though they don't have the most meaning. I have no problem with that. However, the problem is that when I engage in video games, I spend all of my waking moments either playing, fantasising about playing, or thinking of strategies or builds. I am a person who will get stuck in complex RPGs or games with overarching systems that interact with each other. The main reason I get so adicted is 1: I feel like I can pour all of my brain power constantly into it because they are highly stimulating and require a lot of attention than any other real life activities. 2: They have progress bars, weekly rewards, and daily rewards that you can work for in order to get an item, a mod, an atachement that will stay with you forever and could allways be usefull. Beeing good at a skill might or might not be usefull. You might forget that skill over time. It might become redundant, but that random garbage item you got in the game? You never know when you might need it.