Movie, TV show, anime, game, book, whatever. Is there anything on the horizon you're actually optimistic for?
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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.
I've been really trying to push my cousin (still a teen) into that. That age group is so caught up in living out everything virtually I almost have to push him to the mindset that a man is to be out building up themselves or things in one way or another, pretty much for their entire life.
Yeah I ramble here too much (mostly during office type work time) and I can address that if I need be. Games, TV, whatever sort of entertainment is fine for the most part when bounded into an appropriate amount of leisure time. The ones who build their entire identity around fictional worlds really just make me sick.
Yes. You don’t have to completely abandon it. But you should recognize it for what it is.
/The Star Fox remake looks cool.
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.