Do you feel you have outgrown media sources or discontinued them for other reasons?
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All of them, unfortunately
Streaming.
It’s the new cable, in that it sells to customers based on intentional market fragmentation. It’s actually a worse, because anything you “buy” on a streaming platform is actually just leased.
I don’t really play video games any more. No disrespect to people who still play them, but they are baby entertainment. Cheap stimulation which requires very little intellectual input and fucks with your functioning as an adult through screwing up your reward system. Not all games are bad but 90% of gaming just exists to keep you placid and give you the illusion of control and agency. I’m an adult now, I can get the real thing.
I found my enjoyment of gaming was greater learning about various games from a disinterested third party prospective than doing so myself.
I literally stopped watching movies, especially Bollywood and Hollywood movies. Somewhere along the line, I just decided to consume almost exclusively Japanese media, particularly anime. The simple reason is that anime tells some really amazing stories that most Hollywood movies don’t hold a candle against. Think Attack on Titan or FMA. I am not saying that all Japanese media is great, no it’s not. But, the variety there is pretty amazing.
I kinda went the other direction where I had to cut out all anime. Too many fascist undertones and sexualizing children for it to be comfortable to watch for me.
Obviously not all shows/movies from anime do those but it’s difficult to really know until you’ve already started watching and so it’s safer to just cut it out.
I do like some of it, but far too often the story is going along fine and then it’s like SURPRISE HAREM! SURPRISE SLAVERY (and the main character is fine with that). Too bad Crunchyroll doesn’t have a tag for “not creepy”.
I enjoyed Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon quite a bit. It’s not exceptional or great, but good. It certainly tells a unique story.
Hollywood is too formulaic, at least when you shake it up with foreign media you dont really know where its going to go.
Television. Can’t remember the last time I turned my TV on to actually watch TV. It’s mostly for streaming, but even that’s getting harder to keep up with. It just feels like there are too many services and shows to keep track of. If I sit down and watch a show then I really need to want to watch it. More and more I’ve been listening to podcasts or treating Youtube videos like podcasts. It lets me multitask in a way that sitting down and trying to watch something just doesn’t.
More and more I’ve been listening to podcasts or treating Youtube videos like podcasts. It lets me multitask in a way that sitting down and trying to watch something just doesn’t.
How much of them do you catch as you’re multitasking? Any time I try this I’m astounded at my unwitting ability to almost entirely tune out whatever they’re talking about, defeating any point to playing the podcast outside of giving myself some background noise.
It miiiiight be an ADHD thing as the only people I’ve been known to actually retain info while doing this are all diagnosed, including me
Or at least more commonly possible in ND brains like that
I personally only find myself rewinding my audiobooks when either:
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Something weirdly worded or confusing happens. Going through discworld right now and I had to repeat a lot of Pratchetts descriptions of people, for example
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I need to read something in the language the book is in. IE, english Text that’s actual words that have meaning, but not numbers or acronyms or other non-sentence English, if that makes sense
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Its a trainable skill. Ive got it to the point where my boss doesnt give me shit about listening to audiobooks while I work because I’m faster when I do.
Everything that is ad-supported.
Media funded by ads has a different objective than other media. I simply reject advertising in total.
I like that simple take. It is very succinct. It pairs well with: money spent on advertising, reflects a poor quality product.
3-2-1 Contact
I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but at some point I stopped receiving that magazine.
There was always a section called “BASIC Training” that had a bunch of source code in BASIC. They wouldn’t tell you what it did. You had to try and guess what it did, then type it into your computer to find out whether you were right. But I didn’t have a computer.
In 1994 I finally got a computer, and immediately opened up the QBASIC interpreter and started typing it all in, to see what it did.
Holy shit I just realized that’s 30 years ago this year.
Inb4 anyone says Reddit.
I mean, I didn’t outgrow reddit, I like the reddit platform, just not the guy running it
YouTube. From around 2008 - 2016, it was pretty much my only source of media and entertainment. I was subscribed to so many different channels and never missed an upload. I could spend hours just binge watching all types of content. These days, I only watch / follow a handful of creators. Really only visit the site when I have nothing better to do.
I’m the same way. And Google’s algorithmic bullshit they pull makes it really hard to find quality content that actually keeps me interested. They killed the “magic” of finding a new favorite creator.
Same. I can’t tell if the content has declined or I’ve just outgrown it, but it went from my go-to my, “eh, if I’ve got time.”
Only watch sports (footy/cricket/tennis) on TV and nothing else.
Eli the Computer Guy and Philip DeFranco. For much the same reason. They told me to leave, and I did.
DeFranco was truly biased but balanced news. And then came the US election before last and balance lost out. Trump won and DeFranco decided political influence was more important than unbiased reporting. Shortly after Biden won the last election, he streamed a response to criticisms of bias, and he flat out said “if you disagree with my politics, leave. I don’t need viewers like you.” Favoring neither is disagreement too. It was that easy. Last I checked his subscriber count was cut roughly in half.
Eli said “If you don’t want to see me study ‘What is a duck?’ Leave. No really, leave. Leave.” His subscribers vanished and he blamed the algorithm, or so I heard.
I mean DeFranco is still good stuff, he’s just very on the nose about fascists being fascists. I think he still presents news in a factual way, while making it clear where the factual information stops and his feelings start.
I’m not sure where you’re getting the “subscribers count cut in half” because that just isn’t the case at al, he steadily trended upward then plateaued, but hasn’t experienced any significant drop in the past several years
Online Multiplayer. I used to love to connect with people, friends and strangers and play games. Now I just want to play alone on my terms and find it super annoying when games introduce online stuff into the single player mode, like raids.
I still enjoy the occasional couch co-op though.
Comedy news shows. They can be funny, but the more I learn about topics in depth the more I realize how much biased the shows are. A segment that might have previously left me feeling better informed might instead make me feel like someone is trying to fool me or tell a one sided story.
I’ve watched “some more news” a couple of times, I found them pretty alright. They’re pretty clearly biased, they’re just biased in a direction that I tend to like more than others. Still kind of, full of stupid skits though, and for the comedy, ymmv, certainly, it doesn’t really land for me at all. Quality of the information is kind of. Iffy, it would seem like, but I haven’t looked into it that hard.
Of course, biased in a direction that you like is the most hazardous to keeping a clear view of a situation. That’s the easiest way to slip by your guard.
In one episode of last week tonight, John Oliver was roasting Boris Johnson for mumbling the poem ‘Road to Mandalay’ while visiting Myanmar. Calling the act, absolutely offensive or something. Now, not a whole lot of Myanmar people here don’t know the poem. And among those who know, the poem is either fairly well regarded or they hold no such feelings like taking offense. Atleast among the people I know. Boris Johnson’s an absolute clown, but you can definitely sense the bias there.
Bingo. John Oliver is one of the worst offenders here, I think. He has a slick, humorous presentation style and a lot of his material is genuinely informative. At the same time, as you note he’ll throw in something that is either horribly cherry picked or has a bad misinterpretation.
TV in general, I can’t remember the last time I’ve sat down to watch anything airing that wasn’t, say, footage of the new year’s eve fireworks show or something.
I don’t really care much for recent movies as well, most of what I watch is stuff from before 2000 and if I ever go to the theater I go with friends just as an excuse to hang out.
And I think I’m currently in the process of outgrowing gaming in general, I still play games but I’ve been gaming less and less nowadays, most of what I play are old games from my teenage years and childhood, and I don’t really keep up much with newer releases… In truth I’m sort of disgusted by the industry in general nowadays, so that might have some influence as well.
Well, if “media” is in general, I’d have to say television. I’ll watch some things once in a while, but for the most part, I have way too much anxiety from a bad marriage. Audio books, and certain Youtube channels can trigger it, too.
Bruh, this doesn’t sound healthy at all.
We’re all broken somehow
