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All Games Are Going Somewhere or Cleaning Something (media.piefed.zip)
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Title is a reference to a recent Semi-Ramblomatic video by Yahtzee.

(post 1) ever notice how men critize games like animal crossing and stardew valley on the basis of "the entire game is just doing tasks" without recognizing that "kill bad guy" is also just a task but violent? (Post 2, Same User) "It's so boring all you do is talk to people and do tasks so you can buy new things" yeah and all y ou do is press a bunch of buttons to kill people so you can buy new things? perish (Post 3, same user) My activity page has not known peace since I made this post I have hundreds of insufferable gamers crawling up my pant legs now but luckily I have a secret up my sleeve... I too am a gamer man. I'm immune to the gamer venom. (Post 4, new user) This has the same energy as that post that's "Red Dead Redemption is just Barbie's Horse Adventure with Violence."
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[–] 15 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I mean, Factorio is just work disguised as a video game. Doesn't make it any less fun. It's work that I choose to do rather than work that I have to do.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I describe it as "this is how I wish my job was"

    I do literally program factories

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    So other than lack physical exertion I suspect the appeal of job simulators over actual jobs is.

    • Actual meaningful feedback.
    • None of the completely unnecessary side bullshit.

    Interviewing would be so much easier if it was simply, we need X skill, if you have X skill then do X task and we will give you money.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    this is why I choose not to get into it, and why I struggle with Minecraft sometimes. it just uses the same area of my brain that work does.

    I find it very difficult to just sit back and do simple tasks in Minecraft, instead of figuring out what to build next and all the parameters for that.

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