I feel like a bit of an outlier here. But I just don’t care for them. I much prefer playing video games.
Does YouTube count as TV?
Yes
I avoid passive video media almost entirely. I too prefer interactive media best.
I can’t stand most television anymore. Especially now that most streaming services have brought back ads.
You can’t prove anything!
Truthfully it’s my wife who really likes to watch TV. I mostly prefer reading or gaming haha.
I think around here you’re more likely to find folk who play video games rather than watch TV or movies, but I might be wrong.
I personally never play video games. I have nothing against them, just never got into it beyond old Atari ST games in my early teens.
From what I hear from friends and colleagues at work I know I’m missing out, so I’m planning to make an effort to get into some sort of game when I have the time, probably when the sprogs are older. It is sort of intimidating and I don’t really know where to begin, but I’m sure it’ll be interesting.
Triple AAA games are pretty mediocre, imo, but if you liked the Atari ST/Amiga era, there’s plenty of stuff like that that’s amazing coming out. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound and Shinobi: Art of Vengeance are a couple of highlights I’ve played recently. Also, a Steamdeck is a great thing for limited time gaming. Just turn it off mid-session, and it’ll be right there at the same place in the game when you turn it back on.
I’m interested in how gaming has become immersive to the extent that the narrative is so deep they make decent TV shows after them.
I’m aware of the like of The Last of Us, purely from watching the show. It’s fascinating to me that you can have an interactive experience of that quality, so I’m told, so that’s something to look forward to.
I should add that I have played a handful of PC games over the last 30 years, such as Alien Vs Predator, Duke Nuke 'em and Portal. But that’s where my experience ends.
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.
nope not anymore. YT clips are enough since alot of the movies and show these days are very subpar post-2010, also the aggressive push for copaganda, military propaganda, christianity-ganda(movies not parodying or criticizing to a great degree) in some form around the time trumps 1st term. most movies are basically just promoting these 2 things right now, only a small amount are counter to this. since most of them are on streams, im not paying to watch it, if its going to get cancelled anyways.
nutrek is just not interesting, and in light of recent events, people who are fans of trek shouldnt support PARAMOUNT+.
MCU films/movies are quite silly and subpar, except the ones with kathyrn HANH, and cate blanchett.
Go backwards and find the classics that speak to you then. For me good art is usually a little subversive, although there is nothing wrong with pure entertainment of course.
Yep me too… not many shows or movies that float my boat any more…video games are much more entertaining .
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.
Pretty much. I’ve got a bunch of entertaining YouTube channels (some of which are, ironically enough, movie and tv show reviewers that I’d rather watch than the stuff they’re talking about), a huge backlog on my Steam library, and plenty of music to listen to and books to read.
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.
Does nobody use ad blockers anymore?
I’ve averaged probably 4 movies and 0.5 tv-series a year for the past 7 years or so. Granted, I don’t play video games or listen to music either. I mostly just watch YouTube videos and listen to podcasts.
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.
I’m the opposite, I barely play videogames outside a few rounds of whatever multiplayer thing my buddies are playing. But I’ll watch a movie or show from time to time. I read less than I’d like to admit, but I still read more than I play single player video games.
I consume a ton of music though, and not always just in the background, I like to get into it, break down each instruments parts, read up on the context behind the music and musicians
