There's a shit ton you can read instead of playing video games. I only am into books as much as I am because I chose it and kept choosing to be interested in it. I think part of the reason why too is that at some point, while studying Buddhism and notions of self, I figured out that people are what they do and that the problem with nearly everyone is that they think that it works PERSON and then OUTSIDE WORLD meaning a person is like someone looking out a window of a car manuevering around the outside world, but a person IS! what they are doing with their time.

This means you are severely limiting what you are by just playing video games or whatever you are doing over an over.

I know it is very difficult, but a person has a right- hard won freedom from like the Magna Carta/French Revolution, et al and duty to do something with their freedom even if it seems like very little.

Who says what is a lot and what is very little? I am a lowly substitute teacher, but I have helped a crying teenager once who told me he was hearing voices, I have reported to Child Protective Services students who said their father slapped them, and who knows what else. You shouldn't just go by what society tells you your status is. Your status is the goals you have.