Congratulations, you beat your favorite video game. Now it’s time to beat the feelings of emptiness.
In wider pop culture, Betty White is a great example of this. White, who passed away a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday, has been celebrated since her death, with mourners lauding her acting career, her love of animals, and her
These attachments—to celebrities or fictional characters and worlds—form with anything that gives us comfort, safety, or solace. It's strange to think about deriving comfort from a place like’s Hyrule, which is full of ruins, monsters, and rusty broadswords, but, as Stever explains, “we derive comfort from the familiar.” We get to know Hyrule, and knowing it draws us in and provides comfort, whether or not the world or its inhabitants are actually comforting in any way.
Stever suspects that parasocial attachments may be even more prevalent right now due to the pandemic, in which our opportunities to interact with others have been limited. This means that we watch more TV, read more books, and play more video games to fill these social gaps.
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