content: Yeah, I feel you. And no, I don't think you're being too preachy. I don't really play a whole lot of games these days outside of the occasional indie game on Steam or once in a blue moon I'll use the Xbox for something other than background noise with Netflix/Youtube-streaming audiobooks while I work on projects I've taken home. My only real hobbies outside of work is my painting, reading subversive literature, playing games on occasion and my AR-building projects because I love to tinker with shit and it's my right as an American. Not to overshare but I keep some strange hours with my job sometimes and oftentimes when my shift is up, everything is closed except for bars. I view social drinking with disdain because it's an activity that encourages squandering money to provide a social space disguising the fact that it's generally horny, lonely people trying to connect with one another. I'm not like a Mormon or anything, and I do drink on special occasions like my girlfriend and I's anniversary/birthdays, etc. but I'm kind of biased because I've had friends die or ruin their life/careers via alcohol abuse, drunk driving (either victims of or the perpetrators of, etc) and so on. Unwinding from time to time with a decent video game keeps me out of bars and in some cases, can be works of art like you said. The Dark Souls series, for example, has been a franchise that highlights the woes of a doomed protagonist against a crumbling world that renders your actions and the actions of your predecessors inconsequential against the unstoppable march of time. And Titanfall 2's singleplayer campaign was a fantastic story. Also, despite it being an unpopular opinion, I enjoyed FO4 as much as I did FONV: Bethesda actually making you choose a side at the cost of losing the other factions instead of letting you toe the line was a good move.  My advice, personally, would be to not dabble so much with Warframe. Really fun game, and while online gaming provides a method of social interaction with friends who may have moved out of state, online gaming itself is the major reason why video games become a massive time-sink that breeds unhealthy lifestyle changes.  Not to sound preachy, either, but when you're playing online most games will have events designed explicitly to draw you in and keep you playing. I've had friends blow off plans because they wanted to grind some stupid timed event for Overwatch skins... and I've literally seen a coworker's fiancé leave him because all he was doing on his off-days was grinding Destiny raids and other stupid shit. Even Warframe is guilty of it, where it's "oh hey this event just awarded me some kind of Resource/EXP booster I'd better play more while I can…" and every online game does this to suck players more and more into sacrificing more of their time. Or they'll design everything to where you need a team to complete a task, leading to your online friends hitting you up more and more if you fill a specific role and you end up looking like a dick because you have real responsibilities and do not have the time to play during one of these stupid events.    Play shit that you have the agency and final say-so of when your available time is up without consequences. If, for example, you get off work and are like "Man I feel like fucking around on Fallout/Dark Souls for a little bit" or whatever, at any time you can just be like "Shit it's late I'm hopping off of this", then just save and exit. Pick it back up if you have time later exactly where you left off, without some shit like "OH HEY you didn't play during our Super Special Event Week and now you MISSED OUT on the dumbfuck MAKEBELIEVE ITEMS huehuehue" when you do.  Play shit that you can enjoy on your own time management cycles and your own terms.