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Gamers grind for hours simply because they started

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Video game developers exploit you by making you sink fifty hours into building a digital town. Even when the game becomes mind-numbingly boring, you will keep playing solely because abandoning the digital town feels like a catastrophic waste.

Gamers grind for hours simply because they started
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