kasdeya
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video games allow us to live out even our most impossible wish fulfillment fantasies such as… *checks notes* being a disposable corporate wage-slave exploiting a planet’s resources for the profit of space billionaires
seriously why are there three separate factory games with this premise and how can people stomach playing them? what is it with automation games and fucked-up stories?
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we’ve gone from an era where video games were mostly about making the player feel powerful and valued and like they were making a difference, to an era where video games mostly make the player feel like either a bad person or a helpless pawn of forces that mirror our real-world oppression
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Tengu@snug.moe
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@kasdeya what is it with automation games and fucked-up stories?
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kasdeya
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@Tengu omgg I thought I was the only one who felt this way. and it’s not even just games - it’s kind of everything? I don’t get it. like yeah after a hard day of being ground down by the oppressive forces of this world I would love to experience a story that consists of being ground down by very similar oppressive forces. that sounds great
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Tengu@snug.moe
Tengu@snug.moe@kasdeya Think it often is that people can tolerate those sorts of narratives when the other parts of the media is better.
Irl they have to tolerate the corporate-shittery, if they want to keep their job/livelihoods.
Similar as an example, with games where you’re cleaning, that’s often easier than having to deal with the realities of getting up and cleaning irl.
Often you get to avoid the parts you can’t stand irl but can tolerate in video games and other media.
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Grace Vulpes Alopex (973748)
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three?? I only know one game like that (satisfactory)
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@kasdeya @pharmafemboy Human Resource Machine also comes to mind, which is very on-the-nose but is arguably not in the genre under discussion here
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@pharmafemboy there’s also StarRupture and… I actually can’t find the third one on Steam but I know I played a third one that was very very similar to Satisfactory but leaned a little less heavily on the corporate satire
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