Angry Birds will suck you in and steal your soul (or at least waste your time)

It’s hard to walk through an airport or a coffee shop without seeing someone playing Angry Birds. The game is on millions of mobile devices and even desktops as an oddly-addictive distraction from the rest of the world. In it, one is tasked with taking a powerful slingshot and launching birds with various attributes at bricks and structures in hopes of killing pigs. Anyone who hasn’t played the game will probably think that sounds weird.

Those who have played will see nothing wrong with the concept. That may be the problem.

This infographic comes via Los Angeles Chevrolet and offers some insight into the psychology around our (not so) guilty pleasure.