Licinia Eudoxia
Empress
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How is it a long stretch? have you actually played CIV 4?
The OP has a sound claim-evidence-inference-justification argument structure. I don't see how your purple and orange statement is even a correct analogy/comparison.
I've played quite a bit of Civ 4, yep. I played more FFH than Civ4.
The OP has the science - "Regulated releases of dopamine control brain functions relating to pleasure, accomplishment, and attention span." Then it goes from that to "I get bored while playing Civ 5, but not as bored while playing Civ 4." Which is an observation.
Lost, assumed, or hand-waved are all the steps connecting the two. You're assuming that boredom/attention is a single-variable calculation based solely or at least primarily on dopamine, which isn't necessarily true. You're assuming that somehow, Civ4 is stimulating dopamine release in a way that Civ 5 isn't based on these things, which again, is a pretty big assumption (again, the evidence for this is basically "Well, it's not not true. So it might be correct. Seems like it might make sense.")
I could just as easily make some goofy Evo Psych post about how people who like Civ 5 are descendants of ancestors who embraced change, progress and the unknown, and how people who like Civ 4 are regressive evolutionary dead ends that died out in prehistory because of their failure to adapt.
It would have some facts, some opinions, and a lot of baseless and goofy conjecture in the middle that appealed to people who agree with me.
It would be a lot like this thread.