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Or just want to drive around in heavy Mashines…

Office work is very important for the most part.

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Do you feel important doing it?

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Im a IT guy so yeah.

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Can’t speak for other games, but there’s a LOT of former truck drivers who play Snow Runner.

Back when I was working as a forklift driver, when I broke my leg and was stuck at home on the sofa I really enjoyed driving the forklift around in GTA5 and just moving palettes​ around.

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There are current truckers who play Euro Truck Simulator in their trucks. I’ve seen it on r/trucksim

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Sometimes you just want to do your job without annoying dispatchers, clients or managers, and drivers that actually follow the speed limit.

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I mean, pilots do similar things, although probably not while in the cockpit.

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Human being can be oddly obsessive. In other news, I wish American Truck Simulator was available for PS4 :-/

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Can confirm, I’m an it worker and love the farming/trucking/construction/other sims

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I choose to believe the only people who play Euro Train simulator are German train conductors who want to pretend to operate a train while eating pretzels and drinking a responsible amount of beer.

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I work with kids who are seeking vocational education, and I can tell you that it is definitely not just office workers.

A favorite is euro truck sim 2. Weirdest case I’ve met though is farming sim. I’ve talked with 16 year olds who’d play that game for hours daily. Even got a friend of the family who’ll come home from driving a tractor for 14 hours straight, and then play farming sim to wind down.

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I know the farming simulator type of people. I think those people simply have a high professional interest in farming economy, management and agricultural technology.

Even more impressing than those who play every FS 20xx for hours I find those who mod for the games. Year after year they photograph, model, program and share their equipment, which is sometimes decades old.

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Playing ETS2 is just something you do while listening to the radio, the long highway stretches of not having to reverse a trailer into the eye of a needle are superbly relaxing.

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some more for you

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If you want to check out something related, wierd, and interesting check out German radio controlled truck conventions … lots of people go together and drive their RC stuff in a sensible realistic manner. I find it adorable.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

You mean, something like this?

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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That sort of thing, but with little trucks, diggers, forklifts, and tractors all by radio control … I guess I never understood the appeal of train sets whereas driving a little truck around looks like fun

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My three year old had an addiction to watching videos of those conventions for about six months.

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Please high-five your three year old for me

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Autobahn police simulator does sound like fun actually.

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It is, but probably not in the way you think. Because this game is unbelievably trashy and cringe. If you like that, you’ll have fun!

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“das ist ja gestern nicht so gut gelaufen…”

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COBRA 11: THE GAME

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The Monitor from Philips is spot on.

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You have the expertise to cause the maximum amount of chaos, then you reload and nobody is the wiser.

It’s like the simulation games in minority report

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