cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7643915

As always in capitalism, video games have largely deformed from an art form into just another means to generate profit for large corporations

  • Bernie EcclestonedEnglish
    13·
    11 months ago

    How about your hardware? And the fibre that enables us to communicate? And the electricity?

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
      3·
      11 months ago

      Oh, funny you mention that, because in my country, my government paid to have fiber laid but the useless bloodsucking capitalist ISPs didn’t do absolutely jack shit with the money and pocketed it. That’s why were having to do stupid shit like Starlink now to connect the people out in the sticks.

      My electricity is also provided by a co-op.

    • RoosterBoy@lemm.ee
      31·
      11 months ago

      1. You moved the goalposts

      2. How did the soviets make Tetris if technology only exists under capitalism?

      • Bernie EcclestonedEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        1. No, I said make a decent game now. As in, a capital intensive one that uses top designers, artists, coders etc etc. Who is making those games today? The Vietnamese? The Cubans?

        2. One game in 1985 versus the multi multi billion capitalist games industry?