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Comment on Sincere question: why play long video games?
jtzl@lemmy.zip 4 days agoInteresting. Thank you for responding
I don’t have trouble relaxing, per se, but I absolutely am a “I’ll relax when I’m dead” type.
That’s interesting you mentioned video games as a sort of solace amid late-stage capitalism. I can fully believe (so-called) capitalism as it has been known in the US is effectively over, but I tend to think it never really existed. Like, free market? OK, where do they sell heroin then? (Inb4 synthetic opiates at the hospital)
If (so-called) capitalism is ending, why is there no appetite to replace it?
Did the prior generations lose the skills necessary to operate civilization? Therefore, by the time we got to now, people only know how to play and consume?
Discuss (plz).
Quexotic@beehaw.org 4 days ago
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org 3 days ago
So the cost-benefit is that it costs time, but it pulls you out of end-stage capitalism and puts you in flow state, engaging in another world. You literally did, though?
Quexotic@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Guess I need to re-read my shit. Lol.
Quexotic@beehaw.org 2 days ago
I’d argue that there is appetite and that those skills have not been lost forever and while there are those that would have use only play and consume, to assume that this is the only thing happening is a bit of a reductio ad absurdum.