Anyone else not watch movies or TV shows?
Anyone else not watch movies or TV shows?
I feel like a bit of an outlier here. But I just don't care for them. I much prefer playing video games.
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Does YouTube count as TV?
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Yes
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I would say it does not. Well, I guess it depends on what you watch. The stuff I subscribe is nothing like TV.
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I avoid passive video media almost entirely. I too prefer interactive media best.
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Don't watch it passively then!
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Nope, I just watch Youtube now, specifically things that interest me.
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I go through phases, cycling though comics, books, games, movies, TV, etc depending where my interest and curiosity takes me. I tend to watch more TV and movies when playing/practicing music or playing slower or turn based games.
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I'm the same, it makes it even harder for me to socialise with other people though, "Have you seen the new (Blank) show?"...
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Don't you worry about blank, let me worry about blank.
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You are not alone. I have a handful of movies and shows I like to watch, but my excess time is usually spent reading books, browsing thrift stores and library shops for books, or reading articles about books. I also splash a little World of Warcraft, gardening, and house chores in there too.
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I think around here you're more likely to find folk who play video games rather than watch TV or movies, but I might be wrong.
I personally never play video games. I have nothing against them, just never got into it beyond old Atari ST games in my early teens.
From what I hear from friends and colleagues at work I know I'm missing out, so I'm planning to make an effort to get into some sort of game when I have the time, probably when the sprogs are older. It is sort of intimidating and I don't really know where to begin, but I'm sure it'll be interesting.
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Triple AAA games are pretty mediocre, imo, but if you liked the Atari ST/Amiga era, there's plenty of stuff like that that's amazing coming out. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound and Shinobi: Art of Vengeance are a couple of highlights I've played recently. Also, a Steamdeck is a great thing for limited time gaming. Just turn it off mid-session, and it'll be right there at the same place in the game when you turn it back on.
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I'm interested in how gaming has become immersive to the extent that the narrative is so deep they make decent TV shows after them.
I'm aware of the like of The Last of Us, purely from watching the show. It's fascinating to me that you can have an interactive experience of that quality, so I'm told, so that's something to look forward to.
I should add that I have played a handful of PC games over the last 30 years, such as Alien Vs Predator, Duke Nuke 'em and Portal. But that's where my experience ends.
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I generally prefer movies, books, or video games over a TV show. There are exceptions, but there's just a lot of filler on TV shows; even good ones.
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I never really watched a lot of movies growing up but then at some point realised there was so much that I was missing. Now I view the history of cinema as a smorgasbord and I am really enjoying jumping all over it.
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I'm guessing you're a good bit younger than me, but this is encouraging to hear. Find your favorite genres, watch what inspired them and you have so much amazing artwork and storytelling to explore.
For everyone that grew up with 10 marvel movies a year its not surprising that modern films don't speak to them.
Challenge yourself and you'll find your own rewards. I love video games and watching youtube too, but it's not the same thing as turning off the lights and watching something like Apocalypse Now, Chinatown or a Kubrick movie without distractions.
Good luck on your cinematic journey!
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I "watch" history documentaries on YouTube while I do chores but that's about it. We don't even have a TV in the downstairs of our house, though my husband has one in his office for gaming. I'm a book worm and prefer books and podcasts. I do love playing some Skyrim or COD Zombies etc., mostly in the winter though, nice weather=yard work or gardening projects.
For any fellow history nerds out there, People's Profiles on YouTube is one of my favorites. Long form, contains imagery but no reenactments, it is essentially a podcast with decoration, and they even group together biographies into massive 4 hour+ videos for those "omg, this is gonna take me forever" cleaning/house projects.
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Hmm that's interesting. I always find videos games take too much energy. Also requires good hardware to play good games, meanwhile you can play video content on any cheap tablet in 1080p.
(I also can't really read books, unless the story really interests me, its hard to visualize scenes. (aphantasia, maybe?) Again, takes too much energy.)
I find the quality of Movies to be usually higher than TV Shows. Movies are consistent throught, but TV shows sometime gets rushed in some parts, especiallt if its a different season. (Infamous GoT debacle, remember?) But its usually TV shows that tells more interesting stories, but you are also at the mercy of big media companies of just cancelling your favorite show and fucking you over.
I recently find animated content, especially (Japanese) Anime, to be an interesting medium. Some concepts can be expressed in animated, but would look very silly when acted out / live-action (like Death Note adaptations, or Avatar: The Last Airbender, I mean, shinigamis and bending elements in live-acting is just cringe, and they have young adults playing kid roles which is just ridiculous), and because you don't have actor restraints or need filming locations, its much less likely to get "cancelled" like Netflix does.
Tldr: Movie > Anime > TV > Manga > Books
Video games is an energy vampire
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I stopped a long time ago. I just prefer interactive entertainment over passive. TV was easy to axe, cut the cable bill & never looked back. Movies went much later, too many shitty movies back to back, eventually stopped going, so stopped seeing previews, which in turn broke the cycle of wanting to see the next one.
I will say that not watching movies or TV makes it harder to interact with folks. There's something of a shared culture we have through our entertainment, and not having that makes it harder to connect.
Oddly, I just started watching movies again this year. I've been getting better about getting on the elliptical, and I'm now at the point where my 'runs' take about 90 minutes. So been catching up on all the movies I considered watching over the last ~25 years. Turns out I didn't miss much. lol.
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To me it's more of a boycott of ads, and I am not paying for a service to make that happen, so turning it off is my main option. I am especially perturbed about the ability of companies to advertise and push drugs that require a prescription to obtain. I do have a list of movies to watch from a large dvd collection I have, but I am not in a rush to go through that at the moment.
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My media use goes in cycles:
TV - really just background noise.
Movies.
Books.
Comics.
Games.
Binged a bunch of movies recently. FF, Ballerina, Superman, 28 Years Later, The French Dispatch, Isle of Dogs, Nobody 1 & 2, and books got set aside.
Ready to go back to books.
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Remove the TV and movies and that's my general cycle. I will occasionally watch an episode of something, and I will watch some movies eventually, but not often. Last movies I watched were K-pop Demon Hunters, and both Spiderverse movies. Can't remember the last live action I've watched...
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Oh yeah, forgot about K-Pop Demon Hunters. That was surprisingly fun!
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TV shows all have the same safe plot now. I don't even own a TV anymore after Netflix became slop. For the really special stuff that comes out once awhile I'll just find a pirate stream.
I play multiplayer indie games on Steam with friends, roleplay in second life, or read books.
Should be doing our phasmophobia playthrough for Halloween soon.
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A collegue actually sent me a clip about this, and how the producers are dumbing down / over-simplifying plots because they know the audience is watching while on their phone.
I cant find anything to watch either, its all so dumb. Im on my 5th repeat of Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, IT Crowd because nothing new is good... Sigh.
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I prefer games because they're much better at connecting you to a story. When a story game is done right, you feel the ups and downs of the story far more than you could with any other medium. Peak example is Hades. When you lose a run in hades, it feeds into the story.
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Nowadays I dont watch neither new movies or shows. I mostly watch YouTube and Anime.
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I like watching them but I don't watch TV much. I stream. I do it occasionally about as much as I play video games probably a bit less. I spend the most time socializing or researching, maybe 60% of my time, 35% playing video games, and 15% watching stuff. I do other things too of course, this is just the big 4. Other things including hacking or coding my devices, playing dress up, taking naps, I love some naps, or finding something productive to do outside or working.
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I'm the opposite, I barely play videogames outside a few rounds of whatever multiplayer thing my buddies are playing. But I'll watch a movie or show from time to time. I read less than I'd like to admit, but I still read more than I play single player video games.
I consume a ton of music though, and not always just in the background, I like to get into it, break down each instruments parts, read up on the context behind the music and musicians
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Yep me too… not many shows or movies that float my boat any more…video games are much more entertaining .
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I watch a ton but I very rarely sit down and watch something as my sole activity. So the majority of time its im throwing something to kinda watch while I do something else.
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Pretty much. I've got a bunch of entertaining YouTube channels (some of which are, ironically enough, movie and tv show reviewers that I'd rather watch than the stuff they're talking about), a huge backlog on my Steam library, and plenty of music to listen to and books to read.
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Does nobody use ad blockers anymore?
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I don't watch TV. I actually can't. I haven't had cable or an antenna to receive anything since I bought my house in 2011.
I have a media server with movies and TV shows. If I really want to watch something I'll watch one of those. I do like movies but only watch them if they interest me and that's getting a lot rarer these days.
I don't play video games at all or have any game consoles.
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I'd consider watching TV shows on a personal server watching TV. TV doesn't need to be live airing. I just saying cuz I too mostly self host, but wouldn't tell people I don't watch TV. I think it's more whether you're consuming that medium at all or not.
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I should be more clear. I don't mean I consume TV like most people but do it through my media server. I meant that I have the media server and if I get the rare feeling that I want to watch TV I will watch some old show I have on there.
I upgraded my system in 2023 and looking at my history since then, it shows me watching a few episodes of Letterkenny after the update. I actually spent several months before that "binging" it. That was an uncharacteristically lot of TV for me and I actually skipped over every scene with only the Skids in it. I couldn't stand them
After that, I've watched 5 episodes of The Super Dave Osborne Show which came out in the 80s, 3 episodes of Kim's Convenience 5 episodes of Peep Show and 12 episodes of the comedy Children's Hospital.
Without commercials those are 22 minutes each, except Children's Hospital which are 11 minutes, or two episodes in 22/30 minutes. So 19x22 minutes= 418, or 7 hours in two years. I average watching 17.5 minutes of old TV shows per month.
I consider that not watching TV. I don't keep up with new shows. I don't finish a show and start looking for a new one to watch. But if I got really interested in a new TV show I'd watch the hell out of it then go back to not really watching anything.
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100% same. Interactive media like video games only. These days I abhor sitting down to watch most movies or streaming stuff. Visual passive media is pretty much a no-go for me without being forced by the partner.
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In my circle this doesn't seem uncommon. I feel like more of an outlier because I don't really watch YouTube or anything similar.
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I don't have the hardware or the interest for TV, but I do sometimes watch youtube vids about whatever.
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I really only watch TV shows with my girl. I do like movies though. The majority of the content I take in is via YouTube.
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i love a great film. Occasionally a TV series, Channel Zero is really good.
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nope not anymore. YT clips are enough since alot of the movies and show these days are very subpar post-2010, also the aggressive push for copaganda, military propaganda, christianity-ganda(movies not parodying or criticizing to a great degree) in some form around the time trumps 1st term. most movies are basically just promoting these 2 things right now, only a small amount are counter to this. since most of them are on streams, im not paying to watch it, if its going to get cancelled anyways.
nutrek is just not interesting, and in light of recent events, people who are fans of trek shouldnt support PARAMOUNT+.
MCU films/movies are quite silly and subpar, except the ones with kathyrn HANH, and cate blanchett.
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Go backwards and find the classics that speak to you then. For me good art is usually a little subversive, although there is nothing wrong with pure entertainment of course.
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I've always got music on in the background. Less gaming nowadays, doing my best to read more books.
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I like all sorts of escapism. TV, Movies, Games, Books are all doorways to me.
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I'm much the same way. Wasn't really a conscious decision either - it's more of I had better and more interesting things to do and gradually the amount of time I spent watching TV and movies dwindled down to basically zero.
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I've averaged probably 4 movies and 0.5 tv-series a year for the past 7 years or so. Granted, I don't play video games or listen to music either. I mostly just watch YouTube videos and listen to podcasts.
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I've started studying at the university and also I am working. I don't have time for this shit. The best I can do is to watch EU4 (and EU5 in couple of weeks!) let's plays, whenever I have time.
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I stopped watching TV and movies, as they all push for something insidious. What could it be? no idea.
As for video games, as you mentioned OP, I'm honestly the same. I'm a gamer myself, but also do other things outside of gaming (as I've shown on Lemmy a lot, including researching some spirituality aspects with Neigsendoig, my producer).
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insidious such as?
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Give you dopamine. Fucking evil, absolutely satanic.
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Basically, all of these things, according to Neigsendoig's research on the matter, seem to indicate Catholicism or any surrogate thereof that's approved by the RCC. It's seemingly reasonable to assume that any popular TV show or movie has imagery and symbolism of the Roman Catholic Church or Jesuit Order, which is inserted as a means to subconsciously program people into doing what the Popes and Jesuit Superior Generals want.
You may consider myself and Sendo idiots on this matter, but you can look this up yourself if you don't believe me. Christofascism is the ultimate goal of the RCC, and has been since Simon Magus started it (It wasn't Peter who was the first Pope, as that's a cover up).
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I can’t stand most television anymore. Especially now that most streaming services have brought back ads.
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You can’t prove anything!
Truthfully it’s my wife who really likes to watch TV. I mostly prefer reading or gaming haha.