Are video games okay to play?
Obviously there are explicitly bad ones, but I'm concerned with avoiding subtly bad games. What do we make of secular games that use religious imagery, either in the background or without really understanding it? Or games that have generic fantasy magic (i.e. fireballs and such) but do not use witchcraft or related imagery? How about games in fictional settings that have fictional religions but do not emphasize them? And what about violence in games? Should we avoid graphic violence, or even historical depiction or non-graphic conflict, such as sprite-based games, etc?
Should we stick exclusively to games that don't emphasize plot, so as to avoid subtly bad games, or avoid games altogether?
All these questions can be applied to other forms of media, especially fictional, such as books, movies, shows (animated or not), just video games are the form I'm most familiar with.
I realize this might sound like one of those moral panics of the 90s-early 2000s, but I'm seriously curious about this. I've been avoiding most forms of entertainment for the past few days out of fear of playing something sinful, but as a result I end up doing just about nothing, which drives my anxiety/intrusive thoughts and sometimes my desire to masturbate up the wall.