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[–] mursejoy@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My group of buddies always say that if gaming hadn’t become so wildly popular a revolution started by young men would have happened already.

The US is really good at placating the masses with media. Stay distracted, stay oppressed.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Bread and circuses. A concept thousands of years old.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah but the rich forgot to keep paying for the bread and circuses.

[–] staph@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Don't worry, gaming is quickly becoming unaffordable to anyone without a serious income stream.

[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

im broke and im gaming on a borderline e-waste pc (which i bought for cheap used) and a steam deck from pre-price hike and buying games off humble bundle and deep discounts on steam

i also have a ps4 pro (which i bought used for next to nothing) from before i moved to this tiny apartment and could do couch gaming

it's possible but you gotta not buy the latest and most expensive games. idk why anyone would do that in the first place tho, theres so many games to play that are just as good and are way cheaper

but they fund the development of those games tho so i dont mind i guess 🤷

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online -1 points 2 months ago

Gaming systems are made for the top 10% now. They are fully rejecting regular consumers and focusing entirely on the high end market.

Basically they want to cater the economy to the top 10% and neglect the bottom 90%. This is one reason why everything is so damn expensive. Budget options aren't a thing anymore.

[–] xav@programming.dev -1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Hahaha ! "We would start a revolution but we're too busy gaming on the couch". What a bunch of losers indeed.

[–] quarkquasar@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If you look into it at all, America is a really embarrassing place.

I mean, we just started an unprovoked war by bombing a school full of little girls.

If someone has done that to America, there'd already be memorials about it and several random brown countries bombed back to the stone age, but since we did it, it's actually totally cool.

[–] mursejoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

It always has been. That’s why alternate history is taught.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

We can’t even get gamers to stop pre-ordering games from even just the shitty companies. They literally can’t simply go play any of the thousands of other amazing games because they’re too busy letting themselves get rat-fucked by companies like EA and Ubisoft who actively hate their customers.