Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. Feel free to marvel at our stockpile of high-tech spy balloons. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
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It’s an activity dominated by the “idle rich”, mostly first world labor aristocrats and petit bourgeiosie.
Games as products must cater to that audience to be successful, and their stories reinforce capitalist hegemony.
I don’t know if that’s true. There are plenty of poor workers inside and outside of the imperial core that regularly play video games
For AAA games, this is true in many cases. For independent games, not really, in my experience