You're lying to yourself: you don't "destress" playing video games, they only stress you out more —like a part time job you're not being paid to do. I can tell you that learning Chinese is relaxing: don't believe me. It's hard work. Video games are, too. They're misery misperceived as pleasure. Lifting weights at the gym, also, is stress, but is commonly misrepresented as relaxation —and as a pleasure. And the most dangerous delusion of all: you think that "destressing" in this way makes you more proficient at other tasks —but that is also the opposite of the truth. As Herodotus said, it is what is contrary that is good for man, as with drawing tension in the bow and the lyre.
