Movie, TV show, anime, game, book, whatever. Is there anything on the horizon you're actually optimistic for?
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Don't build your excitement around another man's product. Develop a skill that feeds your own personal optomism.
That's real easy to say, and it sounds like one of those cool sounding toughguy 'I spend all day chopping wood, building a house with my bare hands, and reading Cicero and Marcus Aurelius' sorts of AMOG witticisms, but it's not realistic or actually positive.
Not everyone is going to be good at everything, have the time or faculties to become good at everything, or always find enjoyment in only the things one can do and nothing else. Not everyone is equipped to be a good writer, or a good artist, or a good musician, or a good whatever human beings have found joy and leisurely pleasure in for thousands of years. Humans instead tend to seek out those who are good at those things. If you enjoy reading, but are not a good writer and have not the wit for it, you may instead seek out one who is and enjoy their writing. They may come to you for the thing you are good at.
If you don't like the word 'excitement', then try on 'are there any creators of leisurely pleasures that you have come to expect to produce quality things you enjoy, and do you positively anticipate their next work?'
People like things dude. Not everyone spends every waking moment of their life producing output, and it's actually bad to do so. A person should work and produce in moderation as they should seek pleasure and enjoyment in moderation. And finding that enjoyment in what others have made, and learning to anticipate it is not a bad thing.
What, you dont like living like an animal? Only able to utilize what you yourself have either made or, lets be more realistic, found? I agree; the same people shitting on consumerism just got back from 7-11 before voicing their disgust on their smartphone or computer. We just use to barter and leverage something we have or can make for something someone else had or made. The only thing is, these days its rare to find someone with a craft or skill that is contributory, especially amongst non-whites. Mexicans aren't even that good at gardening/landscaping, they just do it for the shit wages we refuse to (a whole other topic).
I'll bite. The thing with games is that it sublimates your masculine drives to explore and create (eg. Minecraft) or perfect your necessary combat training (CoD etc.) by offering a low-risk, low-effort alternative. Yeah, if things went full helter-skelter in the US, Ja'quavious and Paco with their modified Glocks aren't likely to hit anything spraying and praying past 20 yards, but then, neither are you if you don't own at least a reliable rifle and sidearm that you maintain and practice with regularly.
You may find that doing these things might kill off any desire you have for bing bing wahoo and talmudvision. Reality isn't perfect but it is where you live.
I think you have a good understanding of my main point. People are spending a vast majority of their lives in a low risk virtual environment. An environment that can be remotely disabled.
We are made to push out into the physical world. Make new experiences. Not simply exist.
Weirdly enough, gaming never subverted any part of my life. 12 years as EOD with 3 combat tours and then I changed it up and moved into medicine, where I presently practice primary care. Still play games nearly every day for maybe an hoir or two, just not 8hr stints like when I was much younger. I shelved the hobby during times when it wasnt feasible (deployments, children, school). But I never let them "emasculate me" and still go to the gym or run 5 days out of the week and have a family I support. Plenty of other hobbies I swap in and out as well, firearms being one of them.
Sounds like a skill issue.