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I get what you are saying but I see this as pretty dystopian. It's easy to measure the harms that happen, but what about the other side of the coin? What about the friends you never met because you couldn't speak to other people? What about the legal sexual encounters? Maybe even love?

Especially during covid lockdowns when people were meeting much less in person than normal, social connection through games was important.



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