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Depends on the game and what we're characterizing as "addiction." There are definitely games that I routinely lose track of time playing, resist having to stop, and/or continue to think about when I'm not playing them, and while there's room to question whether that's actually addiction or just a reflection of the fact that they're fun (or in the case of the last point, a game like Factorio where a huge part of the game is planning builds and that can happen to some extent even with the game turned off), those do fit the usual bills for what people call video game addiction. There are also other games that don't hook me like that, though, and on the whole I don't really have a problem with not gaming if I have a reason to want not to. As cliched as an addict saying "I can quit if I want to" is, I genuinely don't have a problem quitting when I want to, I just frequently don't want to because I'm having fun and don't feel the need to justify that fun to myself by forcing myself to stop. There's also the fact that my resistance to stopping is often more a symptom of procrastinating whatever else I need to be doing than a matter of being addicted to the game, though it's a very fine line between the two.

I think it would be most accurate to say that I'm somewhat addicted to some games.