TV is the reason people are dopey. I'll include myself in that category too. I have spent, make that wasted, countless hours watching that shitbox. I don't like to think about things I could have accomplished if I didn't get hooked on that thing.
What's odd is that I rarely watched TV as a kid ... And there was a lot of great stuff on during the early 80s. The only show I remember having to watch was anything dealing with that alien invasion show V ... Buck Rogers was another one. However, I spent most of my time learning to program my TRS80 CoCo, trying to figure out how video games worked (I tore apart my Atari for kicks ... Never did much more than that, but it looked really cool :-) ). I read a lot too ... Boring shit though like encyclopedias and atlases :-). I didn't watch many popular 80s era shows until I was an adult.
Anyway, outside of renting a movie, watching the news, or watching a baseball game here and there, I'd rarely watch the shitbox. I was like that up until 2007 or so ... I remember my wife and I getting hooked on Lost. We caught ourselves up renting the seasons that were available ... We then went back and rented a bunch of shows I missed over the years ... 24 comes to mind. Nip/Tuck was another. We basically became couch potatoes.
This lasted about 5 years. I'd get pissed off about all of the liberal bullshit I'd see, but I'd still tune in like a good little hypnotized bitch. While my political views didn't shift, I changed. I gained weight, became very lethargic, and stopped working on my various hobbies.
What snapped me out of it was the realization that I wasted thousands of hours staring at TV shows. Since then, I only tend to download tv shows/movies I hear about that sound interesting. Outside of that, I don't stare at it anymore :-) ... When I do, it's usually later in the evening when I need to unwind and shut my brain off.
I'm pretty fucking sure that had I watched the shitbox since I was a kid, I'd probably be either not or half awake like most normies out there. It almost seems to induce a sort of cerebral short circuit ... Your mind is there, but it's absorbing something worthless and basically in a state of rest. While that's good on occasion (your mind needs rest like anything else in your body), too much will eventually cripple it. I can see how people become mind numb if they watched the shitbox religiously their entire lives ... It's progressively gotten worse over the years. It's at the point where it does thinking for you if you aren't cognizant of TVs attempts to program people.
Anyway, fixing TV would go a long way towards restoring sanity amongst the public. If these people were to be disconnected from mainstream media for a couple of weeks, I'm sure more than half of the population addicted to that trash would wake up. That's why I'm really hoping for 10 days of darkness ... It'd be amazing to see what people would realize with no MSM out there crippling people's minds.
I agree with a lot of this sentiment but I also think humans by our nature always obsess over something. It could be work, it could be TV, it could be working out, it could even be volunteering. Do what you love to do and don't always feel bad for having some sort of entertainment or hobby.
Have I played a ton of games? Sure. But I also always socialize while gaming with friends, I play with my son, I live a productive life and have a family and stay involved. So many people act like any form of entertainment is bad but nothing in life is that simple. Don't let it enslave you but what would you accomplish if you weren't watching TV?
You could have battled the deep state and gotten murdered, you could have played in the corrupt game of business and tried to grind your way against taxes and regulations with a 20% chabce to succeed statisticslly...really aside from becoming a master at wood working or some craft you are always going to be involved in the corrupt system somehow.
I mainly enjoy playing older stuff personally ... I can't get into most modern games. I prefer games like Defender, Tempest, and others that were more skill based (yeah, I'm old ... so what! :-P). They're a great way to unwind too. As for newer games, I kinda dig that Lego series of games ... my kid gets a kick out of them ... they have some pretty good problem solving aspects too.
Outside of that, nothing has really impressed me enough to get me sucked into playing it for more than an hour at a time. I think the last "new" game I really enjoyed was "Warhawk" on the PS3 ... but that was only fun if the teams were playing seriously and communicating with one another.
I have to admit to some bias when it comes to video games ... they are what led me to my current career ... they're an awesome programming exercise ... when designed properly, you tend to learn a LOT about computer hardware in addition to "good" software design. On top of that, you learn a lot about probability (if you want to make good AI), physics (adds realism), and music :-). While I don't design games for a living, teaching myself how to make them was invaluable.
Of course, spending every waking hour of the day playing video games is no different than pissing your life away watching shows on TV. There are some exceptions ... I've seen teams of people playing casually on shooters like Call of Duty interact well ... they almost play it like a team sport. That's good ... it keeps you active mentally working with others to achieve a goal. However, those are the exception ... most seem to sit in front of a game like a zombie and just aimlessly wander around shooting people completely unaware that a particular game may have a goal.
Sounds like we are identical :-) ... though I do not have a switch yet. I loved the first Zelda ... I never got into any of the subsequent ones. The only RPGs I liked were SciFi ones on the PC. SSI had an outstanding Buck Rogers RPG ... there was one by EA that came out around 1988 I want to say ... loved that as well though the name of it is eluding me right now.
I remember when I first saw Doom ... disbelief was putting it lightly. I had my brain wrapped around how they pulled off Castle Wolfenstein 3D (still wasn't an easy feat ... that game ran great on an older 286) ... Doom was a work of art though. Everything from the game's design to the engineering they pulled off was incredible.
My friend had a 486DX with a VLB graphics card ... it ran perfectly on that machine (I think it was a 66MHz machine). I had a 486SX when it came out ... the demo ran OK, but the graphics didn't look as good. I didn't have all of the fancy floating point hardware nor did I have the VLB graphics :-) ... plus my machine only ran at 25MHz :-). Still, it's amazing to think that a game like that could run on that kind of hardware. It's a testament to those engineers that brought that game to life.
I just thought of another game I was insanely addicted to ... Pirates! :-) ... I played the shit out of that on my Commodore 64 when I was a kid. I bought the 'remastered' version that came out ~ 2005. I played it for 48 hours straight ... I had to uninstall it since I was a contractor at the time and didn't need that kind of distraction :-) .
In order that the masses themselves may not guess what they are about WE FURTHER DISTRACT THEM WITH AMUSEMENTS, GAMES, PASTIMES, PASSIONS, PEOPLE'S PALACES .... SOON WE SHALL BEGIN THROUGH THE PRESS TO PROPOSE COMPETITIONS IN ART, IN SPORT IN ALL KINDS: these interests will finally
distract their minds from questions in which we should find ourselves compelled to oppose them. Growing more and more disaccustomed to reflect and form any opinions of their own, people will begin to talk in the same tone as we because we alone shall be offering them new directions for thought ... of course through such persons as will not be suspected of solidarity with us.
What a great post and I applaud your honesty. It’s interesting what the programmers were doing to you in order- first Lost -24../7 comes to mind, nipping n tucking ...you. Just a thought. Isn’t that what they’re trying to do to us all day long and they tell us,,in their tell a vision. Good insight from you on breaking free of their spells 🪄
TV is the reason people are dopey. I'll include myself in that category too. I have spent, make that wasted, countless hours watching that shitbox. I don't like to think about things I could have accomplished if I didn't get hooked on that thing.
What's odd is that I rarely watched TV as a kid ... And there was a lot of great stuff on during the early 80s. The only show I remember having to watch was anything dealing with that alien invasion show V ... Buck Rogers was another one. However, I spent most of my time learning to program my TRS80 CoCo, trying to figure out how video games worked (I tore apart my Atari for kicks ... Never did much more than that, but it looked really cool :-) ). I read a lot too ... Boring shit though like encyclopedias and atlases :-). I didn't watch many popular 80s era shows until I was an adult.
Anyway, outside of renting a movie, watching the news, or watching a baseball game here and there, I'd rarely watch the shitbox. I was like that up until 2007 or so ... I remember my wife and I getting hooked on Lost. We caught ourselves up renting the seasons that were available ... We then went back and rented a bunch of shows I missed over the years ... 24 comes to mind. Nip/Tuck was another. We basically became couch potatoes.
This lasted about 5 years. I'd get pissed off about all of the liberal bullshit I'd see, but I'd still tune in like a good little hypnotized bitch. While my political views didn't shift, I changed. I gained weight, became very lethargic, and stopped working on my various hobbies.
What snapped me out of it was the realization that I wasted thousands of hours staring at TV shows. Since then, I only tend to download tv shows/movies I hear about that sound interesting. Outside of that, I don't stare at it anymore :-) ... When I do, it's usually later in the evening when I need to unwind and shut my brain off.
I'm pretty fucking sure that had I watched the shitbox since I was a kid, I'd probably be either not or half awake like most normies out there. It almost seems to induce a sort of cerebral short circuit ... Your mind is there, but it's absorbing something worthless and basically in a state of rest. While that's good on occasion (your mind needs rest like anything else in your body), too much will eventually cripple it. I can see how people become mind numb if they watched the shitbox religiously their entire lives ... It's progressively gotten worse over the years. It's at the point where it does thinking for you if you aren't cognizant of TVs attempts to program people.
Anyway, fixing TV would go a long way towards restoring sanity amongst the public. If these people were to be disconnected from mainstream media for a couple of weeks, I'm sure more than half of the population addicted to that trash would wake up. That's why I'm really hoping for 10 days of darkness ... It'd be amazing to see what people would realize with no MSM out there crippling people's minds.
I agree with a lot of this sentiment but I also think humans by our nature always obsess over something. It could be work, it could be TV, it could be working out, it could even be volunteering. Do what you love to do and don't always feel bad for having some sort of entertainment or hobby.
Have I played a ton of games? Sure. But I also always socialize while gaming with friends, I play with my son, I live a productive life and have a family and stay involved. So many people act like any form of entertainment is bad but nothing in life is that simple. Don't let it enslave you but what would you accomplish if you weren't watching TV?
You could have battled the deep state and gotten murdered, you could have played in the corrupt game of business and tried to grind your way against taxes and regulations with a 20% chabce to succeed statisticslly...really aside from becoming a master at wood working or some craft you are always going to be involved in the corrupt system somehow.
Incorrect.
Television is programming; vidya is simulation entrapment.
The goal is to ascend the simulation, not entrap oneself further in a simulation inside a simulation.
Meditate. Can you?
I mainly enjoy playing older stuff personally ... I can't get into most modern games. I prefer games like Defender, Tempest, and others that were more skill based (yeah, I'm old ... so what! :-P). They're a great way to unwind too. As for newer games, I kinda dig that Lego series of games ... my kid gets a kick out of them ... they have some pretty good problem solving aspects too.
Outside of that, nothing has really impressed me enough to get me sucked into playing it for more than an hour at a time. I think the last "new" game I really enjoyed was "Warhawk" on the PS3 ... but that was only fun if the teams were playing seriously and communicating with one another.
I have to admit to some bias when it comes to video games ... they are what led me to my current career ... they're an awesome programming exercise ... when designed properly, you tend to learn a LOT about computer hardware in addition to "good" software design. On top of that, you learn a lot about probability (if you want to make good AI), physics (adds realism), and music :-). While I don't design games for a living, teaching myself how to make them was invaluable.
Of course, spending every waking hour of the day playing video games is no different than pissing your life away watching shows on TV. There are some exceptions ... I've seen teams of people playing casually on shooters like Call of Duty interact well ... they almost play it like a team sport. That's good ... it keeps you active mentally working with others to achieve a goal. However, those are the exception ... most seem to sit in front of a game like a zombie and just aimlessly wander around shooting people completely unaware that a particular game may have a goal.
Moderation is always the key! :-)
Sounds like we are identical :-) ... though I do not have a switch yet. I loved the first Zelda ... I never got into any of the subsequent ones. The only RPGs I liked were SciFi ones on the PC. SSI had an outstanding Buck Rogers RPG ... there was one by EA that came out around 1988 I want to say ... loved that as well though the name of it is eluding me right now.
I remember when I first saw Doom ... disbelief was putting it lightly. I had my brain wrapped around how they pulled off Castle Wolfenstein 3D (still wasn't an easy feat ... that game ran great on an older 286) ... Doom was a work of art though. Everything from the game's design to the engineering they pulled off was incredible.
My friend had a 486DX with a VLB graphics card ... it ran perfectly on that machine (I think it was a 66MHz machine). I had a 486SX when it came out ... the demo ran OK, but the graphics didn't look as good. I didn't have all of the fancy floating point hardware nor did I have the VLB graphics :-) ... plus my machine only ran at 25MHz :-). Still, it's amazing to think that a game like that could run on that kind of hardware. It's a testament to those engineers that brought that game to life.
I just thought of another game I was insanely addicted to ... Pirates! :-) ... I played the shit out of that on my Commodore 64 when I was a kid. I bought the 'remastered' version that came out ~ 2005. I played it for 48 hours straight ... I had to uninstall it since I was a contractor at the time and didn't need that kind of distraction :-) .
Yes
The interwebs is a big hole too.
THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION
Protocol No. 13, 3
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What a great post and I applaud your honesty. It’s interesting what the programmers were doing to you in order- first Lost -24../7 comes to mind, nipping n tucking ...you. Just a thought. Isn’t that what they’re trying to do to us all day long and they tell us,,in their tell a vision. Good insight from you on breaking free of their spells 🪄
Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes
Swaying to the Symphony
Swaying to the Symphony of Destruction
I remember the first time I heard that song back in 1992 ... I had the biggest shit eating grin on my face by the end of it :-) .