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That's so true, I used to play my PS4 a lot. Like I played so many games back but now on digital I own much more than I have played like I just just feel like something is lost from the experience. I have like 22 discs for my PS4 but I have like 50 games on epic games store but I haven't even played like 5. I watched so many memorable movies on tv, on dvds, even with piracy when dvd of a film wasn't available but now I have soooooo many options from Netflix and I haven't watched two films in months. It just seems so weird.
There definitely seems to be some psychological thing going on with humans and too much choice. Back in the 90s when I only had 4 channels and the choice was a bit crap, I would happily watch some boring old thing like Rawhide because that was pretty much all that was on. But with an abundance of choice it's much harder to find anything to watch.
Yea and no one wants to confront it and create a world with less and less agency. Like we might be the only animals who give up our joy to machines for promise of more joy and entertainment.