>>42357954Not OP, but are you actually this retarded to compare playing vidya to catching shiny? These two are completely different.
You play video games for the mechanics and the story. You either want to challenge yourself or to experience the story (in a more active way than watching movies/tv shows) or both simultaneously. You do it for the process not for the effect.
Shiny hunting does not require any skill, and is simply a waste of time (unless you do it while doing something else, like chatting on twitch or watching something). It just makes you feel good when you find the shiny like a drug. It's like you were to throw a d20 over and over and get ecstatic whenever it lands on a 20.