FUCK. I’m often deeply sympathetic to those who wish to kill their parents. So many cases of people punished for killing their abusers. But then there’s people like these.

Fair enough but with their advancing military tech, China may not even need to send soldiers out at all by the time WW3 comes.

EDIT: Saw in another one of your comments that you’re aware of the heavy investment in robots.

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Then China and Vietnam should stop trading with the US, right?

EDIT: To the downvoters: this is a legitimate question. I would love for such trade to stop, I hear it would only cost China $500 billion. But I’m worried that them doing that would cause the US to be more forceful in trying to get their resources and I think AES states are trying to avoid that. Even if China could militarily hand the US its ass, the damage is still a concern.

Neither clowns nor Mario deserve to be done this dirty.

I hear that video games can be art in the same way board or card games can be. Where the mechanics or challenge is the art in of itself. Like how music doesn’t need lyrics to be art.

I’m glad to be a parasite to such an awful country. Give me good, accommodating working conditions and a short workday and good pay while my surplus value goes to public healthcare, production, and god forbid disability in meaningful ways and I’ll gladly start putting in the work.

But there’s also folks like this suggesting the sinister sisipee is using western games as a digital opium to pacify their disgruntled comstituents:

I have a legitimate fear that such a thing is happening in the west, but on the other hand maybe it’s for the best. The longer it takes for quality of life to fall so badly that even such “digital opium” doesn’t suffice to soften it, the weaker the declining US will be when revolution comes.

Metroid Prime Beyond looks awesome, and it’ll look more awesome on the Switch 2, and it’ll look yet more awesome when emulation’s able to run it. Which option should I wait for, I wonder?

Nice username, it checks out.

The latter may feed into the former. The US, including I believe much of its military power, is fueled by resources it plunders from Africa. I’m hoping with the US’s weakening forces and weakening soft power, people will be more incentivized to follow suit with what’s going on in Africa (and also in South America, there may be a wave incoming there too).

I remember this swell video. We need to make more like this to get into details, even if the videos last 100 times as long.

Oh right, that one. And it may be the most addictive of them all. Released literally in 1984, during Chernenko’s brief term.

My guess, besides the possible bourgeois themes and influences present, would be that video games often demand massive amounts of time and dedication compared to other media and may thus come at the most expense of a social life or connection to reality.

I’m a hard-core gamer myself with over 150 under my belt, have been forever. But I also acknowledge that I’m a product of a dysfunctional, isolated environment, so the pleasure wouldn’t be guilty here.

In a “communist utopia”, we’d probably have the means to require less sleep and to stop aging (with how quickly tech is advancing I wouldn’t be surprised). Thus, you’d have more time to game.

Even the early socialism of the 1936 Soviet constitution limited the working day to 7 hours with plans from Stalin to further shorten it. Everyone being guaranteed a job means less work required from individuals (and higher purchasing power because the price of goods will fall as they become easier and quicker to make). So, your free time may still go up.