LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 @LukeAlmighty@gameliberty.club

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@LukeAlmighty Rimworld allows me to have a kidney-only economy. It is worth the effort

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@guttersessions

This actually seems like a great comparison.

@corfiot I don't think removing the gatekeeping and lowering the bar to entry is why no new games of note are being created. Quite the opposite, I think it allows for those talented people who would normally be obstructed by bullshit to enter where they might not. I think the issue actually is fundamental to the culture. The issue is not the systems in place to create things, the issue is the population. People today on aggregate suck more than they did in the past, at least in terms of their talent for creative output.

And I think a lot of that has to do with the reality that people don't live real lives anymore. In the 20th century it was normal for people to leave their parents home and find themselves in real danger, to make serious moral choices that actually redeem or destroy themselves or others, experience pain and pleasure that is brought on by real external experience and so on. Now it is only normal for people to leave their parents home to be in some kind of highly controlled institution like a university or a job, they don't get to make any serious choices to prevent them from making the "wrong" ones, and only experience pleasure from drugs and pain from socially contrived punishment.

In other words, people today are more controlled than they ever were in the past, and that is very much the case with young people. Young people are being systematically denied the opportunity to venture forth and write their own destiny, and as a consequence of this none of them have a real source of inspiration for art. It's all abstract to young people today in a way that it wasn't in previous generations. And you can tell when someone hasn't really lived it. And really, what have zoomers lived aside from charge they phone, xanny bars, and egirls? And whose fault is that? (Not theirs, actually)

They can't make a game about street racing because none of them actually do any street racing. So if they try to make a game about street racing it's going to come off as dumb and contrived because it will be. They will never break bad and become a Jesse Pinkman. They will never get into a bar brawl over a tarted up woman. They will never get into a car chase with the police. They will never fire a round in anger, and most won't ever fire a round at all.

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Apparently they're still doing this...