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Guilty Bourgeois pleasures? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mine has to be cop procederals and paper money.

A)I just like solving mysteries and problems and have a natural deference to authority figures, so I've watched way too many cop shows. The only one I'm not ashamed to name is The Wire, which is really good and probably is the only one with genuine substance.

B)It's not the concept of money I enjoy, i just like having a physical thing I exchange to get another physical thing. I..."dislike" per se, using numbers on a screen to get food or something.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Their really isnt much difference between chess and e-sports tho

Well, yes, except for the fact that e-sports are very corporatized right now and serve to generate profits for corporations which own the rights to those games in a way that chess as a public domain game never really could.

But yeah, e-sports competitions could be turned into a chess-like national cultural pastime under socialism, so i'm not really worried about e-sports; i personally don't engage much with them anyway.

I'm more wondering what the future of single player and non-competitive games would be in a communist society.

but they can do it in a way where working class people can participate, rather than in the west where sports, games, culture, tends to be dominated by the rich or sons and daughters of the rich, as they have the free time and resources

Exactly! This is why I believe that sports are able flourish so much better under a socialist society than under capitalism, where everything is profit driven and huge barriers to entry exist for a majority of people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I don't see why games would fundamentally change in a communist society, if anything it would be a golden age for gaming and pretty much all sort of media.

Especially games since they require relatively low equipment to be produced, in fact many games are developed as free time projects, by wealthy citizens from imperial core countries, just to be played by friends (Balatro, a massively succesful game was developed as a side project with the intent of distribute it to the friends of the developer).

I could imagine this happening but on a much larger scale in a communist society where abundance allows a much bigger % of the population access to the tools and the free time to pursue these kind of projects.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Exactly! This is why I believe that sports are able flourish so much better under a socialist society than under capitalism, where everything is profit driven and huge barriers to entry exist for a majority of people.

You get murmurs of this sometimes, open source games like SS13; Games made by ex-socialist countries by leftists; Pathologic, ice pick studios, disco eleysium ect.