I found the addictiveness to fall off after a few days of play (as the time horizon of my ingame goals stretched out). I now find it a good activity for winding down in the evening or filling odd-sized/unpredictable bits of time.
I mean that for a few days it looked like it was going to eat my life, and then it stopped. Had it carried on being as compulsive as it was at first, I would classify it as addictive-for-me. It did something else instead. (Was that really unclear?)
It was clear that the word “compulsive” would work perfectly.and that we have inflated “addictive” enough that is used in contexts that make me double take at the irony of the contrast between the usage and the actual meaning.
Addictive means “creates compulsion which increases with use”, right? So it’s addictive at first and then compulsive but not addictive and then neither.
I found the addictiveness to fall off after a few days of play (as the time horizon of my ingame goals stretched out). I now find it a good activity for winding down in the evening or filling odd-sized/unpredictable bits of time.
Addictiveness? Falls off after a few days? I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Do we still call it inflationary if the word actually means something close the opposite of that which it is used for?
I mean that for a few days it looked like it was going to eat my life, and then it stopped. Had it carried on being as compulsive as it was at first, I would classify it as addictive-for-me. It did something else instead. (Was that really unclear?)
It was clear that the word “compulsive” would work perfectly.and that we have inflated “addictive” enough that is used in contexts that make me double take at the irony of the contrast between the usage and the actual meaning.
Addictive means “creates compulsion which increases with use”, right? So it’s addictive at first and then compulsive but not addictive and then neither.