{"id":469,"date":"2021-03-25T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2021-05-05T06:04:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T06:04:17","slug":"podcast-5-are-video-games-like-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Episode 5 &#8211; Are video games like tobacco?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>[Release Date: Apr. 20, 2021]<\/strong> Yeah, we know the question may sound silly.\u00a0 But, like tobacco, video games can be addictive.\u00a0 Moreover, some video games are made in ways that are designed to manipulate their customers into addictive behavior, so that they want to play more, so that they can be monetized more.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t that sound like the historical misdeeds of tobacco?\u00a0 And like tobacco, video game addiction has killed. \u00a0How far does the analogy go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/7JMnqNn9tBd7bNYQEcFqlF\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Release Date: Apr. 20, 2021] Yeah, we know the question may sound silly.\u00a0 But, like tobacco, video games can be addictive.\u00a0 Moreover, some video games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,43,40,42],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-podcast","tag-addiction","tag-excessive-gaming","tag-game-addiction","tag-problematic-gaming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Elizabeth-Smoking.jpg?fit=746%2C420&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}