It's the fact that video gaming rapidly went downhill around 2016 (Mafia 3, Battlefield 1, etc.) that got me away from it, which was a net positive.
I remember writing an essay around early 2017 noting that video games tended to be less degenerate than film. I couldn't write that today, because I no longer observe any difference. Later games like Cyberpunk 2077 are absolutely degenerate to the extreme, said game portrays a grossly artificial, technologized hellscape: a fertile ground for mental illness.
Then you had The Last of Us 2 or whatever with its trans playable characters, and, look, the rest of it is just hazy to me, because most of what I read about video gaming is just from you people, and so much of what is posted here is comical and incredulous.
Part of me is glad that video gaming has succumbed to the total degeneration that earlier fully claimed Western (and plenty of non-Western) film. Having last played a video game over a year ago, and going for a whole year (2023?) without playing any either, it really becomes obvious that it's like a drug in hindsight.
'What did you achieve with all that?' Other than a few YouTube videos with more views than I expected, nothing. I don't even remember most of it.
Finally, if AI is taking away the jobs of bad people who profit from producing filth... who cares!? Let's get those numbers up!
It's the fact that video gaming rapidly went downhill around 2016 (Mafia 3, Battlefield 1, etc.) that got me away from it, which was a net positive.
I remember writing an essay around early 2017 noting that video games tended to be less degenerate than film. I couldn't write that today, because I no longer observe any difference. Later games like Cyberpunk 2077 are absolutely degenerate to the extreme, said game portrays a grossly artificial, technologized hellscape: a fertile ground for mental illness.
Then you had The Last of Us 2 or whatever with its trans playable characters, and, look, the rest of it is just hazy to me, because most of what I read about video gaming is just from you people, and so much of what is posted here is comical and incredulous.
Part of me is glad that video gaming has succumbed to the total degeneration that earlier fully claimed Western (and plenty of non-Western) film. Having last played a video game over a year ago, and going for a whole year (2023?) without playing any either, it really becomes obvious that it's like a drug in hindsight.
'What did you achieve with all that?' Other than a few YouTube videos with more views than I expected, nothing. I don't even remember most of it.
Finally, if AI is taking away the jobs of bad people who profit from producing filth... who cares!? Let's get those numbers up!