That's fair, My taste in men also leans more towards twinks, and currently I look kind of twink-y. But maybe if I keep gaining weight and muscle, while I don't think I'll end up looking "bad", maybe I'll stop being my type.
People who give gifts do it more for personal satisfaction than to please the person they plan to gift. I say this from experience in gift giving, although there are nuances; if I don't know exactly what the person I'm giving to wants, I might give them money instead.
This year I was able to give a bottle of expensive whiskey to my father. I was 100% sure he was going to love it even without having asked him, so it was no problem. With my mother, on the other hand, I preferred to give her money on both her birthday and Mother's Day, because she is very changeable and one day she wants one thing and the next another, so it's better for her to buy what she wants at the time.
And me? Well, satisfied to have made them both happy.
Maybe that's why I personally get irritated by games that aren't hardcore RPGs (like New Vegas) where the character is an empty canvas with no personality of its own. I'm more used to being told "You're this hero. You need to go to this place and defeat this villain. You like chillidog and freedom. Have fun!"
Ok, but my idea of "hero" is more based on the "role model" that you say. I totally agree with what you say that hero worship is one of the points that leads to the proliferation of fascism, it's just that I get the impression that children now have no role models, at least not as we had back then, models for them, of their time. Not in video games at least, in series maybe there are, like in Bluey as you say.
(I was thinking of mentioning Paw Patrol, but that's Copaganda and it's a nono for me).
If you mean Microsoft, I think they will also raise prices just because. They did it recently.
We're cooked no matter what.