Don’t feel too bad, take it as a sign of not being too much of a terminally online communist.

I’m very aware, and as such I assess them by how they exist today. When the time comes that the situation improves, I’ll be the first to change my mind, as should everyone.

Far from it, I am fairly pragmatic when it comes to most things. I simply do not believe that looking for political or social validation from an entertainment medium that is made in large part by and for those who are most opposed to Socialism in general to be a worthwhile or rewarding endeavor. I like a fair few videogames myself, because they can be entertaining, not because they have perfect political themes, in the vast majority of cases they don’t, and for the exceedingly few that do, I simply said it is a pleasant surprise.

I can’t speak for every single videogame, I have not played all of them (of course), but I merely mean it in the sense that apart from maybe select independently developed titles, the vast majority of videogames are developed by large corporate entities with a profit motive first and foremost, and in turn the majority of games are specifically marketed towards those with disposable income from a certain social class. Videogames are an expensive medium, and on average the most expensive form of digital entertainment, with a high barrier of entry through hardware, internet and game costs themselves, then on top of that often also large time investments, microtransactions, subscription fees etc. It is not at all a coincidence that the “Gamer” sphere leans the way it does politically, dominated by primarily western, white, and young adult men, who have disproportionately more money and time to spend on such things than an equivalent in the global south. It sucks that it fosters such a culture, but I don’t blame video game developers for catering to them, as it is literally their biggest market, and they are bound to cater to it.

This seems like it would be quite a logistical disaster for one person to set up, ngl. Organizing just one monopoly game to run smoothly with friends is already hard enough, doing so for several simultaneous groups of people who you may not know that well only seems like it would be tedious and boring at best and totally disorganized and a slog at worst. I’d love to take part just to see how such a thing goes.

Fair point

indeed

Video Gaming is a reactionary and inherently bougie activity, it’s a rare gem to find anything, Chinese or not, that is openly leftist.

Due to having generally weak and pragmatic foreign policy, It’s been this way for at least the last few decades.

United Kingdom, for sure. They have literally nothing left and are strangling their own population as a consequence.

Its easier to lie about age on the internet

I’ve undergone plenty of comradery education and I’m quite often a real prick in real life, not always consciously. My social upbringing makes it hard to keep shitty behavior at bay sometimes. So no, I don’t think so, assholery is a personality quirk that I think people will just have from time to time.

Every man a king.

He was not LONG for this world.

Theres no cause for concern, I just find it funny that this is the gamer reaction. I mean, come on, it’s not like nukes have never been used in real life.

Hundreds of millions of people in peril.

Gamers: “Omg, this is just like Fallout!!!”

In my top 3 most ridiculous languages for sure, can’t keep a straight face listening to those people, lol.

As a global south citizen, I don’t care a single iota about domestic/social cultural policies of western politicians or parties, and would be glad to see a socially conservative movement take power there if it meant an end to Genocide, War, and economic exploitation in my part of the world. I guess it is some form of critical support, same reason I support Iran and Russia in their resistance to Imperialism despite their less than ideal social stances.

He was not paranoid enough. He was way too lenient with a lot of party members that really ought to have been purged or more thoroughly investigated, because clearly as soon as he died, there was a coup from within the party by all the secret oppositionists who promptly took over the country and smeared him for literal decades.

You’re putting words in my mouth. If your implication is that children do not consent to being born, you have to also agree that literally nobody CAN consent to being born or not. So what is the point of you brining this up if not for the indirect implication that having children is inherently wrong as it does not factor in an unobtainable level of consent? I am actually interested in hearing how you would resolve this consent issue.

But surely, by this logic, nobody consents to being born, so what does it matter?