Hey "I worked in the garden and chopped wood and broke up stones all day and then I slept well and woke up the next day with energy and not feeling all achey" is ABSOLUTELY a power fantasy.
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lol i get ya to expand on what I mean a bit, I guess what I'm getting at is more. when we talk about other mediums we kinda get that there's a mass market conception and then the "pretentious stuff", but that pretentious stuff is still acknowledged as a part/goal of the medium by the masses, where
jul 21, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
with videogames, be it for political reasons, just baseline opinions on what people want them to be, etc. there's often a "videogames are supposed to be X" that you dont really see with other mediums, because i think videogames are still vastly seen more as mass market than others in a weird way
jul 21, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
my pretentious, boring cringe nerd opinion is "videogames are meant to accomplish the goals of what the people that made them set out to do" and that's boring but i think it is the most accepting of the broadness of the medium. one of the most impactful indie games i played was an itchio title
jul 21, 2025, 4:03 pm • 2 0 • view
that goes through someone's traumatic experiences as a trans sex worker, and going into how it felt that's def not what videogames are to most people but i think it's a very important part of the field and is something i always think of when "games should be XYZ" of any nature they're Anything
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