No you’re absolutely correct. I’ve found it harder to have faith in other people as much as I did when I was a little younger, because of the state of the world and the lack of movement on the part of people around me. I think part of the struggle I’m having is that computers aren’t a hobby one engages with in a vacuum. If someone was really into knitting and all of the sudden half the knitting community got into fascism for some reason, that person could reasonably go on knitting in the comfort of their own home without feeling like it is in any way contributing to or condoning those fascist knitters. But with computers, half the hobby is the joy of networking! Of these shared spaces created by tying computers together in new and interesting ways. Which unfortunately have now created a wicked gestalt surveillance apparatus. Hell is other people and their computers?
I’ve loved following VR the last few years, watching developers figure out in real-time what makes a good game in a headset, but it really does feel like it’s really on the way out. Moss is one of the big successes of the VR years and it’s now being excised from the medium. People are going to look back on VR in a few years time as a really weird niche of the games industry, like gaming’s very own Galápagos of ideas that never took over the mainstream the way people thought they might in 2016.