I started emulating GameCube games cuz I more or less missed that entire generation other than Smash Bros. For whatever reason Nintendo games are all I feel like playing lately. I don't really give a fuck about modern games right now.
I've been playing Paper Mario and it's making me want to just play Mario RPG instead cuz it's really that much better.
Same man. I uninstalled all Activision Blizzard shit. I got annoyed at Rocket League. I've tried firing a few things up but I just don't care.
The only thing I've been able to play is Mario games. I'm not sure if it's anhedonia or if I'm associating all these companies with negativity.
I got sucked into this (fantastic) site's rabbit hole the other day - https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-problematize/
Basically it discusses critical theory, especially critical race theory, in such a way to try to help you understand what they actually believe. What's happening now is the poison pill of critical theory is reaching critical mass. They've labeled liberalism (in the Lockean sense), philosophy, and science as the enemy (thus masculine/white) and believe in other 'ways of knowing', especially "direct experience" and storytelling. Instead of seeking knowledge they 'problematize' which is described well in that link, it's basically seeking ways to demonize everything.
This concept married with postmodernism and became straight up fucking evil and now it's undermining the central tenets of our way of life. IMO this is the foundational problem, it's the growth of this horrific ideology.
My experience with Dark Souls was "yeah I can train myself to do this but it doesn't feel rewarding enough to make me want to do it"