TheShedCollector
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- Apr 2, 2020
Here's the story of a problem I've had and a solution I've found which has helped me remain sane as we navigate through clown world.
The problem was, that trying to avoid financially supporting companies that spout woke PC bullshit, actively shit on white men, pay the most token of lip service in the most insincere fashion to BLM / LGBT / Pride / <<insert oppressed minority here>> or actively shit on their own customers. It brings my piss to a boil, even for companies I don't buy anything from or in any way care about. It's soul destroying just constantly adding companies to this list and it feels like I can't enjoy anything. I've not been to the movies in probably six years, I've barely bought or played any new release video games. The ones I get I either deliberately buy second hand to avoid giving the companies any money, buy from a grey market website where they will probably eat a chargeback or just wait until they are 75% off on Steam. All modern music is shit anyway so avoiding that is easy enough.
My solution for video games, is to play older video games. I picked up an original Xbox a couple of weeks ago. Games for it are on sale in quite a few pawn shops, charity shops, ebay etc and most of the games are dirt cheap. And god-dammit are they just so much more fun than modern games. I was playing Rainbow 6 Black Arrow and it felt great to be back playing a game that didn't have a stupid fruit machine that costs $2.49 a spin for some random skins or dance moves. I played Simpsons Hit and Run and realised, it really is a good game. It's not just nostalgia, it is legitimately still a really fun and challenging game. Then there's stuff like older Need for Speed games, Hitman, XIII, Timesplitters, Tony Hawks games, Prince of Persia, Outrun 2, the list goes on forever and you can get these games for between $1 and $3 if you look in the right places. For the price of one AAA game I've got what was a limited edition Xbox and 15 games, and I can add full new games to my library for less than the cost of one AAA lootbox. It's a similar story for PS2 stuff. There is a MASSIVE archive of games, loads of which you probably wanted as a kid but couldn't afford. You can pick them up now for a few dollars. Even if the game sucks you don't really care if it only cost you $2.
There's other things I've been trying to do to avoid supporting this kind of bullshit. I'm trying to spend more time making things rather than buying things. I struggle to get raw materials a lot of the time it's just so freaking expensive, but on the plus side no tool or paint manufacturer is doing this kind of shit. Most tool, paint and fixture manufacturers don't even have manned social media accounts. No shitting on customers, no purity testing, no moral-fagging, patronising lectures or insincere statements of solidarity and support for the mentally ill. It's brilliant. Same for the builders yards, pawn shops and other second hand retailers that sell these things. Building stuff is fantastically stress relieving and easily one of the best things any man can do for his sense of self worth or importance. Even just making a good job of building a simple tidy shelf is fantastic.
Please let me know what you think. Am I alone in this thought process? Has anyone else found a way to deal with this? Am I being an enormous vagina myself by even caring? Is there some other place or environment where people don't care about politics and where you can just do stuff and have fun without the social justice police?
Shed.
The problem was, that trying to avoid financially supporting companies that spout woke PC bullshit, actively shit on white men, pay the most token of lip service in the most insincere fashion to BLM / LGBT / Pride / <<insert oppressed minority here>> or actively shit on their own customers. It brings my piss to a boil, even for companies I don't buy anything from or in any way care about. It's soul destroying just constantly adding companies to this list and it feels like I can't enjoy anything. I've not been to the movies in probably six years, I've barely bought or played any new release video games. The ones I get I either deliberately buy second hand to avoid giving the companies any money, buy from a grey market website where they will probably eat a chargeback or just wait until they are 75% off on Steam. All modern music is shit anyway so avoiding that is easy enough.
My solution for video games, is to play older video games. I picked up an original Xbox a couple of weeks ago. Games for it are on sale in quite a few pawn shops, charity shops, ebay etc and most of the games are dirt cheap. And god-dammit are they just so much more fun than modern games. I was playing Rainbow 6 Black Arrow and it felt great to be back playing a game that didn't have a stupid fruit machine that costs $2.49 a spin for some random skins or dance moves. I played Simpsons Hit and Run and realised, it really is a good game. It's not just nostalgia, it is legitimately still a really fun and challenging game. Then there's stuff like older Need for Speed games, Hitman, XIII, Timesplitters, Tony Hawks games, Prince of Persia, Outrun 2, the list goes on forever and you can get these games for between $1 and $3 if you look in the right places. For the price of one AAA game I've got what was a limited edition Xbox and 15 games, and I can add full new games to my library for less than the cost of one AAA lootbox. It's a similar story for PS2 stuff. There is a MASSIVE archive of games, loads of which you probably wanted as a kid but couldn't afford. You can pick them up now for a few dollars. Even if the game sucks you don't really care if it only cost you $2.
There's other things I've been trying to do to avoid supporting this kind of bullshit. I'm trying to spend more time making things rather than buying things. I struggle to get raw materials a lot of the time it's just so freaking expensive, but on the plus side no tool or paint manufacturer is doing this kind of shit. Most tool, paint and fixture manufacturers don't even have manned social media accounts. No shitting on customers, no purity testing, no moral-fagging, patronising lectures or insincere statements of solidarity and support for the mentally ill. It's brilliant. Same for the builders yards, pawn shops and other second hand retailers that sell these things. Building stuff is fantastically stress relieving and easily one of the best things any man can do for his sense of self worth or importance. Even just making a good job of building a simple tidy shelf is fantastic.
Please let me know what you think. Am I alone in this thought process? Has anyone else found a way to deal with this? Am I being an enormous vagina myself by even caring? Is there some other place or environment where people don't care about politics and where you can just do stuff and have fun without the social justice police?
Shed.
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