Video games are designed to make you hooked and extract as much as they can from you. You are slaves on the world they created, wasting your consciousness away on a virtual world. And the grinding games are the absolute worst, its just the same gameplay over and over.
They also give you false information like gamers are the best mind thinker person which is means they have some unique traits they've got from playing games. I mean like the movie Snakes on the Airplane, where the actor don't have any experience on flying the plane except flying it on a simulation game in a PSP then suddenly he can fly the plane that experience but man, come on, that's only happened in the movies there's nothing like that in real life.
True, while flight simulators can't teach you actual flying, it can be useful for learning basics about the instruments, maps, weather, VOR and ATC. But the in-game ATC is just artificial intelligence speaking to you. You don't get the feel of a real plane. There is no fear in the comfort of sitting in front of your computer. There a infinitely more room of error because if you crash in-game, you don't die.
It is still useful in training some emergency procedures that you wouldn't intentionally put yourself IRL. Also, a good amount of IFR training can be done in a flight sim, however, the knowledge gained from flight simulator is useless unless you have skills necessary to fly IRL.
And that's me saying as a flight simulator enthusiast - I once flown a Cessna 182 under the eye of an instructed pilot, and it was a lot harder than in-game.
