I've definitely been getting back in touch with my faith in Christianity in a very real way, it's not felt this genuine to me in almost 15 years, which is wild to think about.
I've gone full circle, when I was a kid and in my early teens I was a strong believer and pretty conservative, then around the time I turned 18 and throughout most of my 20s I gave being very left wing a try and flirted with agnosticism and even to some small degree atheism although I never took that very seriously, something always kept me from becoming flat out an unbeliever.
But then the left went totally fucking insane although to some degree what really happened is the mask simply slipped off and then I started becoming more and more conservative culminating in really getting serious about my faith again this year and what's funny is a big reason why is two movies I watched (especially one of them)
I know that's not an uncommon experience, most people go through a phase when they're younger of being more liberal and then growing more conservative, but it really has been incredible to me to finally feel like I'm understanding the world around me.
Video games already feels like it's mostly past it's prime to me thanks to Anita and good old fashioned greed, I don't give a shit about all these games that are really popular like Among Us and Fortnite, just something about them that seems stupid to me.
There are still some games I'm wanting to play soon but I really do feel like I could just walk away from the hobby soon or at least walk away from current gaming or put it on the backburner, which to some degree I already have as I've not played much this year.
As for other stuff like movies I'm pretty much already done with new mainstream movies, shit is simply too Woke for me and I can't deal with that, almost every movie I've watched that came out in the last couple of years has just left me feeling pissed off with it's Woke pandering.
But my point is, we don't really need new media as we have decades and decades (heck, centuries really if you're talking books) of stuff to choose from, but that's going to be harder to access in some post-collapse society if it can be accessed at all at least after a certain point (save for books and I guess table top games) assuming there's no longer electricity.
I'm aware of that, I've spent a fair amount of time in nature in my life and yeah, it's cool, I've been meaning to spend more time in it fact.
But I still prefer the world of imagination for entertainment, ya know, everything from books to games to movies etc.
Video games are a solitary activity, yeah, but every movie I've watched recently I've watched with my mom, movies are actually more enjoyable when watched with other people.
Uh, a few hours ago? I do that all the time.
I'm somewhere halfway between being country and not, but I've spent plenty of time in the country way more than I've ever spent time in a full on city so I'm very familiar with it.
Book hunting is definitely something I'd do, I already have access to a pretty sizable collection of books, most of which I haven't read.
I'd do the same with magazines, I have a pretty big magazine collection I'd definitely try to preserve, hunting down old magazines without Ebay is probably going to be a lot harder than finding old books but at least I hope to hold on to what I have.
This of course also applies to other print media like comics and manga.
And as I mentioned before I've built up a pretty good board game collection and some of them are pretty complex (Axis and Allies is one example) that can pass loads of time.
I guess in theory you could also play pen and paper RPGs? Provided you have that stuff which I don't have much (but I have recently bought a little)
That is definitely not something I can do anytime soon unless the shit really does hit the fan in a major way, but I definitely need to plan.
It does feel like by the end of the year though shit is really going to hit the fan, interesting that it's happening around the 20th anniversary of 9/11 (if I only knew back then that we might only have 20 more years of modern civilization I would have done so many things differently)
I get called a doomer a lot but most of my talk in the past has just been pure speculation, it's only recently though does it really start to feel like the end really is near and that scares me greatly.
If someone was gonna force me to choose I'm going to predict that things are going to be ok but oh baby there's some real potential for some REAL shit to go down, especially in the case of this trial.
They don't want it because they've been socially engineered not to want for decades and that's all been by design, not by accident.
But we can agree to disagree about race, the truly fucking sad thing is whether it's biological or cultural the end result is often the same, some people simply fit the negative stereotypes and those type of people are getting worse and worse.