many of the most interesting games started as free mods or student projects
The rich can easily exploit the political system and lobby for favorable laws = Not only is it pay to win, the devs suck the dicks of their biggest whales
It's pay to win, where if you pay enough, the devs will add customized cheats that only work for you.
Whistleblowing corruption is dangerous and might often end in persecution against the whistleblower = Reporting cheating whales is a surefire way to get yourself banned
The wealth inequality gap is mind-boggling = You'd need to grind nonstop for a total of 5 billion hours to buy one of everything on the cash shop
Yeah the consumerist rhetoric in game reviews (and the entire technology press more broadly) dooms all of their attempts at analysis to be extremely shallow. Maybe one day a journalist will pay attention in one of their media studies classes and read the fucking Adorno reading that one of their teachers assigned, but that day has not yet come.
This is reformist language at best...
Edit: Sorry for my harsh words. It's just ... the raw urgency and essence of the original criticisms here have just been squeezed out when converted into gamer-code language...
What exactly are you looking for then? Sounds like normal points to me.
Promises of infinite exponential capital growth => Feature creep
This thread got me thinking, do we have a replacement for r/outside on Lemmy? That sub was pretty entertaining at times
Arise ye gamers from your slumbers Arise ye prisoners of ea For reason in revolt now thunders And at last ends the age of games journalism. Away with all your superstitions Servile masses arise, arise We’ll change henceforth the old tradition And spurn the dorito dust to win the prize.
So squad mates, come rally And the last fight let us face The Internationale unites the pc master race.
No more deluded by reaction On pay to win only we’ll make war The pvpers too will take strike action They’ll break ranks and fight no more And if those cannibals keep trying To sacrifice us to their pride They soon shall hear the bullets flying We’ll teamkill the generals on our own side.
No saviour from on high delivers No faith have we in prince or peer Our own right hand the chains must shiver Chains of hatred, greed and fear E’er ea will out with their booty And give to all a happier lot. Each at the xbox must do their duty And we’ll strike while the iron is hot.
For the love of god can you shut the fuck up about this stuff all the time???
No more talk of economic injustice, just consume product and look forward to next product.
You are free to do that... But not in the fucking MEMES community.
i wasn't going to comment but this post was still top of active for some reason so:
stay mad lmao
Alright, let's talk about pranking politicians then...
Yes. I'd actually love this. Then maybe I'd listen.
I love it when I see a headline and then hear 1383x
youthtrendy people repeat the headline. Then they tell me they don't follow msm and that they cultivate their own views. ...I just say... O.K. ...because I don't care. Then they act like they had the biggest mic drop because I didn't want to hear the same dumb shit for the 5 billionth time.
