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.

Also, the those userscripts that swap out YouTube urls with Hooktube addresses are really convenient. Personally, I think the argument that Hooktube hurts YouTube about as ridiculous as the argument that piracy hurts media creators, for much the same reason. I mean, even if you're watching videos on Hooktube, it's still YouTube that's the platform; even if you share videos via Hooktube, you're contributing to the popularity of a content creator that's primarily dependant on YouTube. Similarly, those Aussies who pirated Game of Thrones would have been more than eager to have purchased the video series had it been available. Despite what the propaganda says, the role of piracy is actually much simpler: it's a symptom of a failure to properly distribute media. And Netflix has proven to us (unfortunately) that piracy isn't actually antagonistic towards traditional means of consumption. That essay the EU funded that lobbyists are trying to suppress literally proves that piracy has no affect on the market.

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

Although, I'm not saying that we should dismiss the lesser evil simply because it's still evil. When I share a video with my friends, I always share the Hooktube link with them (partly because the userscripts redirect me to Hooktube by default, making this super easy to pull off) because I respect them that much. But it's important to remember that Hooktube *is* the lesser *evil*. That is to say, it's inherently unethical and unsustainable. It's not antagonistic towards YouTube, despite what others say, because Hooktube could never exist outside of the YouTube paradigm, just like (conventional) piracy can't exist out of the data-is-commodity-trap paradigm. Hooktube doesn't mean we should stop looking for a *real* solution.