So, here you are. Aren’t ya. AREN’T YA? Ya, ya are.

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  • tomiant@piefed.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a video game that you just don't get the hype about?English
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    16 小时前

    “Oh yeah?! SHOW ME THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE!”

    You’re genuinely just a bunch of fundamentalist indie hipsters consuming games like they’re new season flavors of coffee at starbucks. I bet you drink IPA and tell your friends about your favorite micro breweries, let me know if I’m close. You have an oversized square beard (you use beard balm), and thick rimmed glasses, and a balding head that you shaved clean.

    Again, I might be off on the details, but the gist is there.

  • tomiant@piefed.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a video game that you just don't get the hype about?English
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    17 小时前

    You don’t, entirely, and saying that is like saying “well love is just biochemistry. It’s all just molecules interacting.”

    And yeah. That’s ONE way of seeing it, a very materialistic and wholly insufficient and even trite way of looking at it devoid of human soul and the actualities of living that experience.

    It’s basically a resignation to what capitalism is trying to sell you- units of something, you become a statistic, it’s not the enjoyment of the food, it’s about a sterile transaction between patron and chef, where you get so and so filled to such and such a degree, and that has some specific arbitrary value in money.

    It’s just such a consumer zombie way of perceiving the world, I just can’t.

  • tomiant@piefed.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a video game that you just don't get the hype about?English
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    1 天前

    That quickly, I can’t with this utilitarian consumerist take, like, you didn’t buy a game, you bought a minimum specified undetermined quantum of enjoyment. It’s so sterile. It’s like saying, yeah the first part of the movie was great, but then it turned to shit, so you got your money’s worth of enjoyment points so you’re overall on plus. Sorry for sounding harsh, it’s a pet peeve of mine, I don’t like to consider games some sort of staple commodity to wring out enjoyment stats out of and then discard, it’s more to the experience than that. It’s like watching half a painting, you get some enjoyment out of it, not all of it, but halfway there, so that makes it worth it.

    I don’t think so.