Despite it being a working class: lower middle class hobby?

Some of these dudes are shitting on their compatriots

  • ZangiefMain [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Even the "progressive" forums like ResetEra or that Videogame circlejerk subreddit are often classist pieces of shit who hate poor people experiencing anything they don't think they should. I think it's because the people who inhabit online gaming communities probably play games enough to have invested a lot of time and money into the hobby, which is going skew towards certain strata of society, obviously. Unless you're into emulating retro games or soft/hard-modding consoles and don't work overtime (or have other obligations) it can be hard to play more than a couple of games a year.

    Game design itself is also like capitalism purely distilled. Just look at how animals are treated in the majority of games as an example of how some of the worst ideologies get expressed in video games.

      • ZangiefMain [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Animals in games are either pests/enemies to be exterminated or resources to be harvested. Or used in some manner at least, like as collectibles or something. It's rare that they're presented as having any intrinsic value by themselves or should be considered by the player in any way beyond utility to the player. Which is just taking the worst way that people relate to animals currently and distilling it to an even purer form.

        Human relationships in games are modelled terribly. So are personal finances, etc. etc.

        • StolenStalin [comrade/them,they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Now im thinlimg sandbox, but where animal populations are simulated, if you collapse certain species it starts having real effects.

          All the giant spiders die cause you ki them> you start seeing swarms of giant mosquitos that disease you and important npcs

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      ResetEra

      OH EM GEE IM GONNA SEXTUPLE DIP AND BUY SIX COPIES FOR EACH OF MY PS5S

      also redlettermedia is fascist