Zermelane t1_j562q6r wrote on January 20, 2023 at 5:32 PM

I like your mentality, OP. I have absolutely no idea how it works and I think I disagree with it on a really fundamental level, but it's at least very different from the usual redditor fare, and it's making me think really damn hard.

> they exceed others and these “dummies” pretending to be real people with boring lives or bad jobs give YOU a sense of superiority, jobbers as they are called in wrestling

I think you are overestimating how much people think about each other's lives.

I can see humans retreating into video games for other reasons, like, maybe you want to be able to hit on anyone and always be accepted or something. But purely to see other people have sadder lives than you? No, that in itself isn't a fantasy that I've ever seen video games sell. A better, more significant life than you have right now, absolutely, but not comparing your character to NPCs.

But okay, you sure do mow down a lot of mooks in some games, and that means that your life is clearly more important than theirs. Fair enough: A multiplayer game where one player is the hero and the others are grunts that go down in a few seconds wouldn't be very interesting.

... and I guess I'll grant you that. I'd have to do some work to probe out the distinction to really figure out the difference, but I do think it's there. Well. At least now, Maybe future video game technology will change what experiences are fun, and it turns out that people do enjoy games where they compare themselves to NPCs with shitty jobs.

Thiccboifentalin OP t1_j5688v8 wrote on January 20, 2023 at 6:06 PM

> like your mentality, OP. I have absolutely no idea how it works and I think I disagree with it on a really fundamental level, but it's at least very different from the usual redditor fare, and it's making me think really damn hard.
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>they exceed others and these “dummies” pretending to be real people with boring lives or bad jobs give YOU a sense of superiority, jobbers as they are called in wrestling
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>I think you are overestimating how much people think about each other's lives.
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>I can see humans retreating into video games for other reasons, like, maybe you want to be able to hit on anyone and always be accepted or something. But purely to see other people have sadder lives than you? No, that in itself isn't a fantasy that I've ever seen video games sell. A better, more significant life than you have right now, absolutely, but not comparing your character to NPCs.
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>But okay, you sure do mow down a lot of mooks in some games, and that means that your life is clearly more important than theirs. Fair enough: A multiplayer game where one player is the hero and the others are grunts that go down in a few seconds wouldn't be very interesting.
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>... and I guess I'll grant you that. I'd have to do some work to probe out the distinction to really figure out the difference, but I do think it's there. Well. At least now, Maybe future video game technology will change what experiences are fun, and it turns out that people do enjoy games where they compare themselves to NPCs with shitty jobs.

Thank you for hearing me out.

I believe my writings are a coping mechanism I have developed, it is nothing more than a manic episode at heart really to keep myself occupied in case I would try to commit suicide, I live in Ukraine and the thought of wasting my ears and not achieving optimal potential is a torture to me.

I like to believe that some people truly are happy, and I'm just a background character. Beautiful people with beautiful ideas, and that one day I too could exist in such reality through VR.

But my health is not in great SHAPE and perhaps if I treat myself this idea this post will become irrelevant.