Try game development for a while? Do you know C#? If so then I recommend you try Unity, it is realy fun to try stuff out. I am a hobbyist myself. Learning something, having a goal is a key component of intrinsic(personal) motivation. Extrinsic motivation(money, fame, pleasing someone else, being forced out of necessity etc...) is also valid, but is much more likely to be the reason of demotivation. If you have no intrinsic motivation, then extrinsic motivation will feel meaningless and pointless, you shouldn't care about money(beyond your needs)/fame if you are unhappy and unfulfilled right?
Anyway yes yes gamers are cancerous, but the game dev space isn't that bad, if all you are consuming is Unity tutorials on YT then there isn't much room for some techbro to #FreeHK every 5 minutes in your face, in my experience the game dev YT channels and the tutorial web pages I've seen(the good ones obviously) keep it mostly clean and concise. Game jams are good too for practice depending how social you are, though I have no experience with those.
The bonus is that game dev is fairly "international" so to say, you are very likely to meet people from outside the US so even if you meet some liberals they wont be as bad.
You could try Unreal too if you fancy C++, though I am not as familiar with that space.
But no I am not suggesting you'll become a successful dev or anything like that, but there is something to be said about working on something you actualy own etc... Whether you decide to take it seriously is up to you.
Try game development for a while? Do you know C#? If so then I recommend you try Unity, it is realy fun to try stuff out. I am a hobbyist myself. Learning something, having a goal is a key component of intrinsic(personal) motivation. Extrinsic motivation(money, fame, pleasing someone else, being forced out of necessity etc...) is also valid, but is much more likely to be the reason of demotivation. If you have no intrinsic motivation, then extrinsic motivation will feel meaningless and pointless, you shouldn't care about money(beyond your needs)/fame if you are unhappy and unfulfilled right?
Anyway yes yes gamers are cancerous, but the game dev space isn't that bad, if all you are consuming is Unity tutorials on YT then there isn't much room for some techbro to #FreeHK every 5 minutes in your face, in my experience the game dev YT channels and the tutorial web pages I've seen(the good ones obviously) keep it mostly clean and concise. Game jams are good too for practice depending how social you are, though I have no experience with those.
The bonus is that game dev is fairly "international" so to say, you are very likely to meet people from outside the US so even if you meet some liberals they wont be as bad.
You could try Unreal too if you fancy C++, though I am not as familiar with that space. But no I am not suggesting you'll become a successful dev or anything like that, but there is something to be said about working on something you actualy own etc... Whether you decide to take it seriously is up to you.
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