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What's a video game that you just don't get the hype about? (discuss.online)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not that quickly that you dont get your money's worth though. Balatro is a good mobile game honestly, for a quick run when you have time to kill, but I wouldnt find myself sat at my PC playing it.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    That quickly, I can't with this utilitarian consumerist take, like, you didn't buy a game, you bought a minimum specified undetermined quantum of enjoyment. It's so sterile. It's like saying, yeah the first part of the movie was great, but then it turned to shit, so you got your money's worth of enjoyment points so you're overall on plus. Sorry for sounding harsh, it's a pet peeve of mine, I don't like to consider games some sort of staple commodity to wring out enjoyment stats out of and then discard, it's more to the experience than that. It's like watching half a painting, you get some enjoyment out of it, not all of it, but halfway there, so that makes it worth it.

    I don't think so.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    You determine your own worth of something. But thats literally what paying for something or a service is. Balatro is worth its price to me, I can play it for hours now, not touch it an play it for hours in a year, two, whatever. Someone made a nice game, I buy it and play it, it's about as simple as capitalism gets in games.

    Not everything has to have infinite value forever, I will get bored of a game and will never play it again, does that mean I should have never bought it and enjoyed the experience it gave me??? Am I missing your point here or is that just a wild take?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    You don't, entirely, and saying that is like saying "well love is just biochemistry. It's all just molecules interacting."

    And yeah. That's ONE way of seeing it, a very materialistic and wholly insufficient and even trite way of looking at it devoid of human soul and the actualities of living that experience.

    It's basically a resignation to what capitalism is trying to sell you- units of something, you become a statistic, it's not the enjoyment of the food, it's about a sterile transaction between patron and chef, where you get so and so filled to such and such a degree, and that has some specific arbitrary value in money.

    It's just such a consumer zombie way of perceiving the world, I just can't.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I'd like to live in that idealistic world you have in your head, but we don't live in that, humans are selfish by nature, so we have capitalism. Doesn't mean we cannot control it, keep it fair. One person makes a cool piece of art? Sure, I'll pay them. You are looking far too deep into it, I'm sorry. You're going to stress yourself out.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    No, capitalism is selfish by nature, it makes and promotes people to be selfish. People are genetically altruistic and cooperative. Things, and ownership, and selfishness, is what makes society bad.

    You are looking far too shallow into it, and you will stay a slave to that paradigm.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    How do you think we ended up with capitalism

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago

    I think a select few extremely narcissistic, cynical, and nihilistic psychopaths used their inherited power to institute and entrench a form of resource distribution and valuation that would secure their dynastic succession for centuries and millennia.

    People are altruistic, that's why capitalism even works in the first place- in order to compete, we absolutely need to be able to cooperate, if at the very least to all agree on the framework within which we will compete in the first place, to agree on the rules by which we will play. Please do note, the ostensible motivation and raison d'etre of capitalism is that it is the system which will bring about the greatest good for all participants.

    Allegedly.

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