You know what I discovered at some point during the past 10 years? Gaming anxiety is a thing.
I’d spend hours scrolling through my Steam library, palms sweaty and heart palpitating, looking for something to even just launch and never finding it. I only wanted to have some fun — and the fruitless searching ratcheted up the anxiety. I’m completely noncompetitive and don’t care if I even make it through a tutorial, so it wasn’t performance anxiety.
I eventually broke through, completely accidentally, by changing the types of games I played. I stopped searching for the genres I played only on the PC, with a keyboard and mouse, and opened up to games I could play with a controller.
My longest sessions are now on my handheld consoles, phones and tablets, because as I get older, sitting at my desk for long periods has become uncomfortable. A controller doesn’t tether me
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