You enter a bright new digital world, exited to explore and hyped just to enjoy the vibe. Ten months later you're yelling at someone for standing in fire. Wh...

I’m honestly not sure how to summarize this video. It’s a very interesting look at the way that the impulse to “optimize” gameplay affects the culture surrounding games, especially MMOs and other multiplayer games. It particularly looks at World of Warcraft and the social norms that have developed around and within the game. It’s a long watch but I found it really interesting, and I have zero connection to WoW and have never played it.

  • @graphito@beehaw.org
    3•1 year ago

    The same is true for nearly all social spaces. Even when you’re meant to derive entertainment, there’s always the “incorrect” ways of doing it. Of course there are reasons for that tho

    In society you’re allowed to experience your own ways of doing things only in specialized places – claiming and securing those specialized spaces is exactly the subject of privacy movements. I wish the author would allure to that