understanding games is a form of systemic analysis
understanding games is a form of systemic analysis
many of the most interesting games started as free mods or student projects
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100%. Games reflect systems—mechanics, economies, narratives—all interacting. Analyzing them is like reverse-engineering a worldview.
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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
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It's pay to win, where if you pay enough, the devs will add customized cheats that only work for you.
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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
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Too many gold sinks at low level, not enough gold sinks at high level.
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WAY too much grinding at lower levels and the racial stats are all kinds of imbalanced
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I haven't been here long but I imagine c/outside exists?
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if it doesn't, make it
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c/outside
Outdoors / Nature / Green Thingshuh?
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I think they meant the sub where life is treated like a game, a very poorly designed game (almost as if there was no Designer, just people).
Things like, "I'm level 18, should I spec my character into the biochem, robotics, or software guild?"
Or "What's the cheat code for an affordable surgery?"
You get the idea. Life's a game. And it sucks. Stupid devs.
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!outside@lemmy.world exists :) Not too active, but we can change that.
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No respawn. Gambling mechanics.
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No respawn
Do we know that for certain, what if past oifes are previous spawns
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The Inherited Wealth perk is ridiculously broken.
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It's 90% grinding and 10% actual gameplay
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How could the creator of the image miss the opportunity for it to say "we live in a society"
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Or Skill Issue
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Good point. That's probably the libertarian gamer's answer to all of it 🤦
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Why is the richkid class locked for me?
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Your parents need to buy the DLC first!
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Fuck!
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Skin color is still a difficulty selector.
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Spawn points are busted and too heavy RNG
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Sigma grindset yo... Also spawn with a slave emerald mine.
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This thread got me thinking, do we have a replacement for r/outside on Lemmy? That sub was pretty entertaining at times
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If someone finds one please tell me
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Capitalism is very unpoggers.
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If the downvoters want to buy more votes mine only costs $500. You can send you money to the nearest food pantry or food bank.
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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...
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What exactly are you looking for then? Sounds like normal points to me.
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Promises of infinite exponential capital growth => Feature creep
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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.
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Ah fuck you all, I will just spin up my own server for me and my friends.
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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.
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The American Dream is not a myth. People will cry abt how they "can't afford" a $2,000 a month apartment after choosing to live in the city with the $2,000/mo apartment. Literally just move to the Midwest?
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They were doing pretty good until they blamed everything on neoliberalism, what a fucking joke
Edit: If the wikipedia page wasn't clear enough, the 14 definitions and comments below should show that the term "neoliberalism" is a broken dog whistle at best. You might as well go outside and yell at the clouds while you're at it.
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Is it? Neoliberalism describes a modern conservative movement closely aligned to libertarian philosophy. Privatization, elimination of government programs, tax reduction, laissez-faire capitalism are all under the neoliberal umbrella.
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Wow, that is not what I expected Neoliberalism to mean. Thank you for the lesson. When I read about Neo-(x-political-term) I generally think of new ideas around it, not ideas reaching back to WWII. My biggest concern after reading your link is:
The term has multiple, competing definitions, and is often used pejoratively.
Also, the last few paragraphs of Current Usage emphasize it's use as a dog whistle:
"Several writers have criticized the term "neoliberal" as an insult or slur used by leftists against liberals and varieties of liberalism that leftists disagree with."
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"the word is nothing more than a political slur, or a term without any analytic power"
I still think it would serve us all to be more precise about what exactly is failing us.
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Important to mention that Neoliberalism is a therm not really used by people by people who defend liberty, capitalism and free market policies. It's not something academic for example. Basically you won't find liberals calling themselves neoliberals.
It is often used by people that does not agree with liberalism, sometimes in a pejorative way, other times to aggregate a group of heterogeneous people, and sometimes mixing different policies and aspects of modern western societies.
Citing the Wikipedia article that explains and has sources on this:
The term has multiple, competing definitions, and is often used pejoratively.[21][22] English speakers have used the term since the start of the 20th century with different meanings.[23] However, it became more prevalent in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s; it is used by scholars in a wide variety of social sciences,[24][25][26] as well as by critics,[27][28][29] to describe the transformation of society in recent decades due to market-based reforms.[30] The term is rarely used by proponents of free-market policies.[31] Some scholars reject the idea that neoliberalism is a monolithic ideology and have described the term as meaning different things to different people as neoliberalism has mutated into multiple, geopolitically distinct hybrids as it propagated around the world.[32][33][34] Neoliberalism shares many attributes with other concepts that have contested meanings, including representative democracy.[35]
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