Maybe you should google how to think for yourself, mother fucker

*I'm not talking about MMOs by the way, y'all don't wanna see my fully unhinged, a-guy - tier rant about that fundamentally misguided genre of WoW-clones

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I'm going through a terrible time and am feeling compelled to share my aggressive thoughts angery

Meta-gaming is a fucking blight, death to America

kiryu-slam

  • oregoncom [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Videogames are an inherently antisocial medium of entertanment. The RPG has taught entire generations of people to treat interacting with others as a purely mechanical exchange. Having children waste so much of their formative years on such a dehumanizing simulacra of the world and humanity has served as a great tool for the capitalist order to erode their empathy into nothing.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      2 months ago

      counterpoint at least for me.

      rpgs helped teach me how to cope with undiagnosed ADHD by providing a structural model for organizing myself

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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      2 months ago

      Video games aren't inherently anything, they're a medium for expression the same as any other, they can have real art or tabloid trash, it's just they they were invented and popularized in the worst period of history in all reality so far

    • IvarK@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      This is an absolutely wild take to the point where I just assume you're trolling to upset G*mers in which case it’s hilarious and based