hi gamer it sounds like you are stuck plateau'd because you are playing on "I'm too young to die" / "normal" mode
you really only unlock true gamer mode once you add the following win conditions: pay solo & indie developers that you follow on Fedi directly or on their best platform; participate in retroachievements so as to directly flaunt your participation in alternative gaming economies; foster a sharing economy among your friends where you hook each other up with copies of stuff you have recently enjoyed on a regular basis.
if you can enjoy normal, you can enjoy true gamer mode. but if your goal is to beat Nightmare gaming mode at some point you have to improve your tech and strats
gang
I'm not suggesting unconsuming, I am suggesting consuming outside of the corpo economy and limiting the use of fiat economy. And this is an ideal to work toward. I think about money I don't spend to a corpo as money that hasn't been extracted from my community.
"i did my best to be an outspoken critic" is gonna play great with the survivors of Gaza
Because Gaza is still happening. It doesn't matter what we remember if we don't actually stop the genocides. That's why we preserved that history, so it wouldn't happen again.