If I may offer a macro question to ask. Why do we as a society invest so much of our emotional stock in any form of media in the first place?
I remember reading a New York Times a article about a child whose who recently emigrated to the United States from I believe it was Mexico. The story was talking about how when he read certain books that did not feature a "kid that looked like me", he had trouble enjoying them. What that says to me is that we are raising our kids and have been raising them for some time, to try and find a visual connection with the product onscreen, whether be television, movies or video games in order to enjoy them.
We seem to be living in a very narcissistic age where it is all about "me me me me me" and in my opinion, we are applying that mindset to everything we do, watch or play. I think this is proving ever more damaging and divisive.
What I am asking is, are we perpetuating the problem by our inability to take ourselves out of what is being presented in front of us and just enjoy a game or a film for what it is? The way I see it, the more we double down on the representation drum, the worst it's going to get.
I can't play Outlast for more than 20 minutes at a time because I get so goddamn terrified. Love the hell out of that title. On the other end of what I consider "fun", Papers, Please is a great time in a stressful and monotonous way
@raven_sword: I unplugged from social media altogether for about 2 months, and let me tell you, it was refreshing to detox from the barrage of negativity. I was getting into very heated political and societal debates with some of my loved ones and it was straining my relationships. If you are thinking about unplugging for even a little while, it's probably time that you should.
It was 1999, an R rated flick called South Park: The movie. Dead silence the whole way through. It wasn't until the following week where we talked about it, I admitted that I didn't laugh because I didn't want her to think I found all the swearing and stuff funny, and she didn't laugh because she thought I would find it strange that she would find the swearing funny.
I trained for the Canadian Death Race 2 years ago, but I signed up for the event, and used the fact that I had that coming up to train for it. Currently I am not training, but there is a marathon in September that I will be signing up for, once I do, then it is go go go on treadmills and hiking mountains in the summer.
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