this might be a false memory or me thinking of something else similar, but i am pretty sure this has been out for many years? i’m thinking like 10+ years ago. could totally be my imagination though

okay. let’s take your claims a bit further then. do you believe that the united states military should encourage more people who play video games to join the military and pilot drones? after all, they might be more accurate, right?

ok they can get rid of that part

you’ve missed the point i’m making. my point is not to criticize propaganda or military training generally. my point is to criticize the united states, which inflicts massive amounts of violence and suffering all over the world and must be stopped

whose jobs are being destroyed?

so ignoring the fact that that is misleading (employment not employment rate?), are you suggesting that it is good to have a system where people lose their jobs, healthcare, and possibly even homes due to automation (or other reasons)? because if that’s what youre suggesting, it’s not much of a vision

under capitalism there isn’t much incentive to do that. there is incentive to keep people poor and desperate, which is why something like automation, which should in theory make people actually more comfortable and secure in life, is used to do the exact opposite

focusing on ‘not being luddites’ is not our optimal area of focus here. we should really be thinking about how we can have a system where automating labor does not lead to people losing their jobs and risking homelessness and this should be #1 priority

the media jumps on any simplistic narrative it can. we make a mistake if we keep our analysis within the confines of that narrative.

this shows the limitations of our simplistic ‘do video games cause violence’ discourse. here we have someone literally funded by the department of homeland security saying “video games are great nothing to see here!... oh except for those scary terrorists who use them for evil.”

not sure what youre saying here exactly. hundreds of thousands of people are homeless in the united states so at the very least the part about it being easy to function within capitalism is evidently untrue

i hope the fighting game community is paying close attention to this

that would actually be kind of interesting!

“The homes are in the wrong place. We have homelessness in large part because we have made it illegal in most places were people want to live and were jobs are to pretty much build anything and especially to build higher. That’s regulations and not the market.”

that doesn’t solve my problem. i don’t want my experience with a piece of art to include regular requests for money (or however it is they present it) or manipulative gambling mechanics (even if those mechanics don’t happen to work well on me personally).

i dont know why youre trying to convince people. it’s cool that you like it, but it’s not for me or for others who dont want to deal with strange manipulation. if this truly is what all video games are like circa 2020, then all that would mean is that i’m not down with video games circa 2020

this makes the game sound even worse. a forever game that ‘gently pushes you’ to pay for stuff constantly sounds like the opposite of what i would want. i dont want to be manipulated, i want art

“The economy is a complex and chaotic system. This is the main problem and a planned process cannot address it adequately.”

“Who decides what gets made in your proposed system? The government?”

capitalism is a system under which private individuals own the means of production. is that something that you understand to be an aspect of capitalism? you might be working from some obscure strange sources if not. we will need to agree on definitions here

to answer your question to what i would propose, of course it…