I feel like a bit of an outlier here. But I just don’t care for them. I much prefer playing video games.
100% same. Interactive media like video games only. These days I abhor sitting down to watch most movies or streaming stuff. Visual passive media is pretty much a no-go for me without being forced by the partner.
Does YouTube count as TV?
Yes
I would say it does not. Well, I guess it depends on what you watch. The stuff I subscribe is nothing like TV.
I prefer games because they’re much better at connecting you to a story. When a story game is done right, you feel the ups and downs of the story far more than you could with any other medium. Peak example is Hades. When you lose a run in hades, it feeds into the story.
I stopped watching TV and movies, as they all push for something insidious. What could it be? no idea.
As for video games, as you mentioned OP, I’m honestly the same. I’m a gamer myself, but also do other things outside of gaming (as I’ve shown on Lemmy a lot, including researching some spirituality aspects with Neigsendoig, my producer).
insidious such as?
Basically, all of these things, according to Neigsendoig’s research on the matter, seem to indicate Catholicism or any surrogate thereof that’s approved by the RCC. It’s seemingly reasonable to assume that any popular TV show or movie has imagery and symbolism of the Roman Catholic Church or Jesuit Order, which is inserted as a means to subconsciously program people into doing what the Popes and Jesuit Superior Generals want.
You may consider myself and Sendo idiots on this matter, but you can look this up yourself if you don’t believe me. Christofascism is the ultimate goal of the RCC, and has been since Simon Magus started it (It wasn’t Peter who was the first Pope, as that’s a cover up).
Give you dopamine. Fucking evil, absolutely satanic.
Serotonin, not dopamine. Reason being is that dopamine is designed when one moves. Serotonin, on the other hand, rises when one doesn’t move.
To me it’s more of a boycott of ads, and I am not paying for a service to make that happen, so turning it off is my main option. I am especially perturbed about the ability of companies to advertise and push drugs that require a prescription to obtain. I do have a list of movies to watch from a large dvd collection I have, but I am not in a rush to go through that at the moment.
I generally prefer movies, books, or video games over a TV show. There are exceptions, but there’s just a lot of filler on TV shows; even good ones.
Does nobody use ad blockers anymore?
I’m the same, it makes it even harder for me to socialise with other people though, “Have you seen the new (Blank) show?”…
I stopped a long time ago. I just prefer interactive entertainment over passive. TV was easy to axe, cut the cable bill & never looked back. Movies went much later, too many shitty movies back to back, eventually stopped going, so stopped seeing previews, which in turn broke the cycle of wanting to see the next one.
I will say that not watching movies or TV makes it harder to interact with folks. There’s something of a shared culture we have through our entertainment, and not having that makes it harder to connect.
Oddly, I just started watching movies again this year. I’ve been getting better about getting on the elliptical, and I’m now at the point where my ‘runs’ take about 90 minutes. So been catching up on all the movies I considered watching over the last ~25 years. Turns out I didn’t miss much. lol.
My media use goes in cycles:
TV - really just background noise.
Movies.
Books.
Comics.
Games.
Binged a bunch of movies recently. FF, Ballerina, Superman, 28 Years Later, The French Dispatch, Isle of Dogs, Nobody 1 & 2, and books got set aside.
Ready to go back to books.
Remove the TV and movies and that’s my general cycle. I will occasionally watch an episode of something, and I will watch some movies eventually, but not often. Last movies I watched were K-pop Demon Hunters, and both Spiderverse movies. Can’t remember the last live action I’ve watched…
Oh yeah, forgot about K-Pop Demon Hunters. That was surprisingly fun!
I “watch” history documentaries on YouTube while I do chores but that’s about it. We don’t even have a TV in the downstairs of our house, though my husband has one in his office for gaming. I’m a book worm and prefer books and podcasts. I do love playing some Skyrim or COD Zombies etc., mostly in the winter though, nice weather=yard work or gardening projects.
For any fellow history nerds out there, People’s Profiles on YouTube is one of my favorites. Long form, contains imagery but no reenactments, it is essentially a podcast with decoration, and they even group together biographies into massive 4 hour+ videos for those “omg, this is gonna take me forever” cleaning/house projects.
You are not alone. I have a handful of movies and shows I like to watch, but my excess time is usually spent reading books, browsing thrift stores and library shops for books, or reading articles about books. I also splash a little World of Warcraft, gardening, and house chores in there too.
I go through phases, cycling though comics, books, games, movies, TV, etc depending where my interest and curiosity takes me. I tend to watch more TV and movies when playing/practicing music or playing slower or turn based games.
Nope, I just watch Youtube now, specifically things that interest me.
Yep me too… not many shows or movies that float my boat any more…video games are much more entertaining .
