I both lost so many hours to this game and lost my love of gaming playing this haha

At a point it clicked that I was just sinking hours into a game loop that didn't benefit me in any real way... and that thought managed to carry over to all games from then on :(

Great game though if you don't have an existential crisis during it

Isn't that generally true for most forms of entertainment? Watching shows or movies, seeing sports played, etc is just a fun diversion for a bit.

Aye, to be honest it's probably a divergence to the norm due to adhd or depression or whatever miswiring is going on in my brain.

Action films and comedy still have enough dopamine in them to be worth a couple hours, but yeah generally it does indeed apply to all of those things

comparison of men focused tv shows vs. soap operas.

Not everything needs to benefit you

I'm so confused by this comment.

Could you expand on your thoughts a bit? What do you mean?

We used to host TradeWars on our BBS back in 1990-ish. Gosh those were fun days.

If anyone wants to revisit the days of olde - https://www.telnet.org/htm/places.htm

Not to be confused with Elite Dangerous 2 on the Amiga 1200 or PC.

Not to be confused with Pioneer Spacesim, the remake of Elite 2, a free online game

https://pioneerspacesim.net/

Not to be confused with Star Trader (1974).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trader

Edit: free game, locally run. It is not an online game