I used to be a Medic and Firefighter-- in short I was an adrenaline junkie. And now I'm old and retired. And my body is bent and currently a bit broken. I seek to learn how to be dull.
Despite the enjoyment of watching the hummingbirds at my feeders and the light gardening I do. I still think I could become even more satisfied with my dullness.
Guide me to complete dullness!
That's not hollywood, that's humanity. We only have so much going on in our personalities, and whatever stories we tell have to to be relatable somehow. It would be perfectly possible to come up with a novel story, but it probably wouldn't have any emotional resonance.
Horse opera to space opera is pretty hilarious, though. I'm spending more time with some older music--from the 1940s and 1950s. I firmly believe that 90% of everything is crap, and always has been; looking through the past is an almost automated "best of" filter.
That said, modern industry has some of its own tragic quirks; for instance, Netflix demanding its writers create shows assuming that people are only half paying attention (second screen viewing), or now AI's ability to simulate music, at a time when the art of learning ANY skill, much less a musical instrument, is dying....
Thanks for the kind words about gaming; it was a struggle, because I loved how involved I got with it, but I've accepted it's probably not going to happen again and it's time to move on to other hobbies.