Dumbing down doesn’t mean “philosophy versus Call of Duty”. It just means what’s intuitive versus what takes conscious effort. Heck, Call of Duty could demand conscious effort.

  • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world
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    You are figuratively reading multiple “books” already. You don’t say “Well, no Gundam message boards for a few days because I want to go all in on this celebrity gossip blog”.

    And same with books. I won’t read two large doorstopper novels at the same time. But I will generally have some pulp sci-fi or fantasy and then a non-fiction or technical book on my kindle. Which one I read depends on my mood. And it is a very rare occasion that I get confused if Nathan Garrett is about to Goku a bunch of white supremacists in a cabin or if he is about to discover a new kind of polymer.