cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7643915

As always in capitalism, video games have largely deformed from an art form into just another means to generate profit for large corporations

37 points

“The love of money is the root of all kinds of enshitification.” --Jesus Christ (Probably)

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Pretty much.

"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money” (Matthew 6:24).

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4 points

God I’d love some money.

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2 points

Republicans: I’m gonna serve money to god

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14 points

Everything is inherently political when you really boil it down.

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Politics is a branch of philosophy about how societies should be governed. If you want to make a social commentary that is non political, you would have to avoid mentioning how society is or should be run. Also, how people should organise together.

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10 points

Unfortunately it’s not really a step by step guide

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Step 1: Don’t purchase or play games with micro-transactions

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7 points

Alright coo- ah fuck they just updated it and now it has micro transactions.

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Step 2: Don’t purchase micro-transactions (see step 1)

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I was gonna come in with the obvious “see step 1” joke. But what if they added it to a game you paid for? That’d be some bullshit.

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Where I would love to see micro-transactions be a thing is news articles, videos, and other creative works. I’m happy to pay for someone’s work, especially if I’m not paying a bunch of overhead to some shitting credit card company. At the same time, I have no wish to pay for a $20 monthly subscription for the local newspaper in Middleofnowhere, Montana just so I can read one article.

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Whoa whoa whoa, are you posting a meme that’s tangentially political to the Marxist Leninist meme community?

I’m a capitalist shill and this offends me because it challenges my worldview and I don’t like that.

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Clearly this should go on some other community with no subscribers. That way your message is neatly filed away somewhere nobody else will see it, especially me. I’m just in favor of proper sorting, that’s all! /s

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This is outrageous.

It’s not like there’s a perfectly functional meme community at Lemmy.world that is suitable for properly sucking off the “job creators”

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