Welcome again to everybody, and happy anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam . Make yourself at home and pay your respects to Ho Chi Minh. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Lately I got back into a video game, which did have one upside: I made some friends there.
The downside is it’s a live service video game under late stage capitalism and that means it gets shittier with each update, but marketing presents it as an improvement (to be more specific, the updates are kind of like genie wish fulfillment, where like the players ask for a million bucks and they get crushed by a mass of deer). It’s an (admittedly fucking tiresome) reminder that there is no real “escape” under capitalism. It is all an interconnected system. Can’t just go off and chill for a while in an isolated part.
This is why I basically only play single player and stray towards indie to medium sized titles for the most part. Obviously you don’t make as many friends but the games are usually designed to be fun. [Like no really, live service games are designed to never actually be fun. Just to be on the cusp of fun so you keep playing]
which game