your environment and the media you consume are choices

Yes.

But what led to these choices?

I also can’t stand the moronic idea of "no free will

That’s ok. There’s a lot of reasons why you feel this way.

Determinism is not a barrier to meaningful free will.

So do you believe that the mind that makes our decisions is not subject to the physical laws defining determinism?

Your mind

So would you say there’s the world, which obeys the laws of phyics and chemistry…

And then the mind which is what makes up you and it stands apart from these laws?

Honestly, I get why this stuff triggers people so hard. From a biblical sense, choice is almost the sole defining characteristic of what makes us human.

I think I had literally said out loud at some point back in 2019 that I’d love a game that had the exploration of Minecraft and the combat of Dark Souls.

Then Iron Gate made Valheim just for me. 3k hours in and still going strong.