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The digital world was my escape, now it’s what I escape from
Holding and folding cards helps my mental health while fighting screen fatigue – and my gaming buddies are at the table, too
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The biggest thing that analogue gaming brings to the table is actual physical interaction.
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In my youth, my gaming buddies and I could easily spend more than half a day rooted to our chairs, staring at our screens. Some even spent entire days barely sleeping or eating, just for those extra hours of game time.
I’m talking classics like Half-Life, Counter-Strike, StarCraft, MapleStory, Diablo II, and the myriad custom Warcraft III maps and more – you name it, we played it.
