Videogames are trash

I'm thinking all this time playing and developing video games is wasted.
Video games are catering to the same zombie-TV experience and dopamine addiction roller-coaster of movie industry. Video game skills are shit and people get way unhealthier with them.
Like when you game, you don't mind eating shit food and pretend you live in the game.
But you can't live in the game or escape from life like that. Escapism is bullshit: the "We reject your reality" cliche is not about freedom, just denial.
Videogames are most degenerative brain functionality i've seen, people warp their minds around the game and plan their life towards better playtime, as if the game was really important. All these speedrunners, progamers, elite players are not gaining anything valuable,
they just adapt their brains into reflexive "game reality" instead of real life.

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If you really want to combat the YouTube problem, you need another consumption paradigm, not an alternative.

I agree, however, the "paradigm" currently calls for censorship of views it dislikes and the only "alternative" to that is an alternative site that doesn't cave in to the pressure of this paradigm and censor.

Hooktube doesn't mean we should stop looking for a *real* solution.

Indeed. HookTube is largely just an intermediary until a more permanent solution can be found, or in the unlikely event that Alphabet/Google reverse their policies on YouTube.