most people spend their leisure time browsing mindless content on aggregators or netflix. this guy just really likes being a cowboy.

>building a valuable set of useful skills seems like the precise opposite of toxicity

eh, there's a limit. i spent past 10 years pretty much solely focused on gaining skills & career advancement and my one of my biggest regrets is not playing more vidya. i personally think work addiction is a bigger unspoken problem in society than game addiction. it certainly was for me.