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[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 50 points 6 days ago

Oh, you're a gamer? Name every racial slur smuglord

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 18 points 6 days ago

pointy ear, tree hugger, leaf lover, knife-ear

[-] muirc@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago

Dwarf Fortress player detected. joker-gaming

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

almost, but not quite, entirely wrong bug-facts pika-pickaxe

[-] muirc@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

I just see Elf-hate and assume you must live under a mountain. Apologies.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 51 points 6 days ago

Maxis to Marxist pipeline? curious-marx

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 27 points 6 days ago

Maxis leads to Praxis

[-] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 37 points 6 days ago

Oh god is he gonna put me on a train that is purposefully designed to make me barf and die

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago

Only if he also is adding free pubs to the city owned grocer plan.

[-] stevatoo@hexbear.net 35 points 6 days ago

We gotta stop him before he spawns a volcano in Central Park.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 31 points 6 days ago

He's going to be the mayor and in his free time he plays a city management game. This is like the pilots who go home and play flight simulator.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 6 days ago

No joke but i have a pilot friend who did that 😂

[-] Ishmael@hexbear.net 29 points 6 days ago

Asking for "books" in general for Christmas as an 11 year old? Yeah, this dude has been a turbo-nerd his whole life. And I say that as a former Asian kid who got books for Christmas as an 11-year-old.

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 28 points 6 days ago

as a former Asian kid

Are you a hispanic kid now

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 20 points 6 days ago

i used to like books at that age I-was-saying

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

Same. mao-red-book (Actually it was mostly the new, early Terry Prattchet Discworld books back then. But a lot of those have pretty based politics too)

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Is it only asking for "books" in general that makes you a turbo-nerd? Tbf I find it weird for an older child to ask for "books" instead of specific books. But I have asked for specific books as gifts my whole childhood... I think when I was like 6-ish I would ask for "books" because I just knew I liked reading but not any specific books. But by that age I was asking for specific books.

[-] Ishmael@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah I think it's weird to just ask for "books" in general lol Like imagine any kid just asking for "video games" like they don't care whether it's Tetris or CoD

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago

I don't read a lot of games writing because a) most of it is pish and b) there's too much else to read but I really enjoyed this one.

This bit genuinely made me lol:

Books FIFA 2003 and SimCity 3000 computer games.

Soccer makes me feel empty and I barely know how to read, so the first two mean nothing to me

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

Yeah neither do I, but the folks at PCgamer and Rock Paper Shotgun are pretty good possibly even comrades. My phone doesn't get a signal at my desk so when I sit there for long stretches with no sales calls or orders to process I just browse them and watch youtube shit.

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

It's a shame really because I'm probably contributing to a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy of not reading games journalism because most of it is bad, therefore not finding the better stuff etc.

[-] 9to5@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah Rock Paper Shotgun even has a decent comment section at times. Might be my fave site for pc games since it also covers lots of indie stuff

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 20 points 6 days ago

love too get my political analysis from pcgamer dot com

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 28 points 6 days ago

Jeez comrade it's just a cheeky post and I thought it was funny.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 29 points 6 days ago

sorry comrade, I'm grumpy and "jokes" are fascist

[-] Inui@hexbear.net 32 points 6 days ago

The last time I smiled was on August 19th, 1991, etc.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 16 points 6 days ago

actually i have never smiled so first of all

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

I remember reading on this site pcgamer dot com had linked to marxism.org in an article so this is as close to theory as some g*mers are gonna get

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

Yeah they are not shy of critiquing capitalism and they always turn the comments off for anything that might bring out the hogs.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Gaming at its best is a kind of dialectical systemic analysis.

How likely is it that he plays Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic?

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 16 points 6 days ago

For real, game development has led to decades of insights from incentivizing player behavior, balancing rule-sets, to cultivating online spaces; and virtually none of those lessons have translated into the political realm.

[-] curmudgeonthefrog@hexbear.net 19 points 6 days ago

gamer-gulag run by gamers, for gamers

[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago

SimCity 3000 lets-fucking-go

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago

The most controversial part of this is 3000 isn't even the best one

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah 3000 was kinda shit.

Oops, your power isn't connected, for no predictable reason.

Oops, the water supply ran out and now that specific pipe just won't carry water anymore.

No campaigns or real tutorial to learn the ins and outs of this stuff, only sandbox.

Reason for lack of development: Lack of chocolate sprinkles

Motherfucker, give me something I can build an understanding on top of.

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

I’m gonna make low income housing for all the gamer words to reduce inequality

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

Herman Cain got his political start with SimCity and he turned out okay

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

Zohran is from Uganda, not uzbeki-beki-bekistan

[-] muirc@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

Eventually.

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