@Pastellioli Huh. I actually resonate with this too. Don't worry, I didn't click the spoiler.
But like, I'm VERY materialistic. For maybe the past 12 years, I've been in this position in life where, I dunno if it's my body being messed up a little, or my extreme anxiety, hypersensitivity, and OCD, but I can't go places a lot of the time. It's gotten a bit better, but I still cannot go too far from home, and it's excessively rare that I can spend so much as a single night away from home. So I turn to gaming and anime. Often with a friend, or my younger bro. It was previously just my hobby, taken to an obsession. I'd play with different people, but live in a bubble in terms of how I interacted, as I didn't know how to talk about any topic I wasn't like, intimately familiar with. One friend eventually broke that away though.
These days, I worry regularly about what'll happen when my dad is gone, or any family really. On top of that, I dunno how I'd get by without my possessions, but that's taken a backseat lately to the very real possibility of losing family, and becoming further stranded in life.
My possessions are my escape. A way to at least have a decent time without being consumed, at least as much as they are my hobby now.
@Mariotag I still am kind of materialistic too, and I do feel like some of my hobbies kind of became an obsession at times, mainly with drawing. Even though I like it a ton, I got kind of obsessed with it too much to the point I wouldn’t want to leave home or spend time with people. It was worse 2-3 years ago. I’d assume it also came from the fact I owned a bunch of art supplies back then, and although most of what I had was unused, I got super obsessed with how big my collection was and trying to use it all up, and sometimes I’d like buying extra materials I didn’t need. But, luckily was able to detach from being obsessed with such a big collection, and just a few weeks ago, I donated a lot of unused items I had, and it’s helped my bad materialism quite a bit. I feel like that if my obsessive self tried to donate so many unused items years ago, I would have a hard time doing it.
I also get worried over what will happen in the future with me and my family. In fact, I worry about the future in general and what will happen to me. I get concerned about if I am spending too much time doing hobbies and not spending enough time with my family, and sometimes I feel like that my obsession with my items and hobbies detracts a good amount of time from it. There were several times where my dad wanted to take me to the movies a few times in the past and go do something fun, but I’d always say no just so I could be with my possessions and hobbies. There were so many opportunities for family bonding, but my materialism was so bad back then to the point I’d want to be surrounded by items than my family.
It’s surprising it took me this long to realize how I used to act, and it’s thanks to the power of video games that helped me realize that and helped me change up how I act, and I always like going out and being with my family, and I now don’t mind not being around my possessions all the time. I just hope that, with all this time I have with them now, that I’ll have no regrets in the future.
Back in 2013 the PS4 was coming up and I was looking for a reason to purchase the new console. None of the retail launch games appealed to me, so I began looking at the F2P options. Warframe jumped out at me immediately. Third person action, gear progression; it all screamed Phantasy Star Online to me. And that's exactly what it is.
In a world where so many live services fold (on almost a weekly basis, r.i.p. XDefiant), Warframe still stands tall almost twelve years after launch. I haven't played any other game, in my whole life, for longer than I've played Warframe. Closing in on 6k hours played. Because the gunplay, the movement system, the progression, and the frequent content updates continue to pull me back in.
Switch Physical Collection - 1,350 games (as of December 2nd, 2024)
Favorite Quote: "Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age the child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies." -Edna St. Vincent Millay
I don't think I have an absolute favorite, but some of my favorites do have sentimental value for me.
Kirby Super Star on the SNES.
Once when I was playing it as a kid, my late grandma saw the things Kirby could do and said in Spanish "Es el marranillo atomico" (It's the atomic piggy). SInce then, when I refer to Kirby with a nickname, it's usually that. She also saw me play Soic Adventure 2 Battle and called Sonic "el gato despeinado" (the unkempt cat)
Super Mario 3D Land for the Nintendo 3DS
I got the game back in 2013, but my New 3DS XL until 2017. Around the same time I started to spend time with the woman who's now my best friend, she's not a gamer by any means but I managed to convince her to play some levels of the game. Even if she wasn't very good, she enjoyed her time playing and I could see she forgot about the problems she had for a while.
A few months before that I also got Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U, though she didn't play that with me, I make a connection to the sentimental value of 3D Land in 3D World as well.
The Metroid series in general
I usually see my best friend the same way I see Samus Aran: she had been through a lot struggles (maybe not as hard as Samus) before I met her, but she never gives up and doesn't let her past stop her from being the caring badass she is. There's another parallel between Samus and my best friend, her nephew sees her as a surrogate/secondary mom, kind of like how the baby Metroid sees Samus.
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