Not entirely, but more or less, plus far right grifters noticed the birth of that new subculture which is, as you said, in their very class condition very susceptible to their propaganda, and fell hard on them.
Just bouncing off your “not entirely” response - something interesting I noted in Peru was the utter ubiquity of internet cafés advertising pre-installed League of Legends, Dota 2 and WoW clients inside, and the variety of the clientele they served in age, apparent gender and apparent status. Was a bit of a culture shock coming from the U.S. where nigh every gamer has their own console and/or computer.
By “not entirely” i mean that this “Actual working class is too busy producing parts of that computer to play any games” is nonsese, because obviously not every worker produce parts of computers and most of them do have at least some free time and if they do play games in this time it shouldn’t be really our place to tell them they are too busy to do that. At least i and apparently you too know plenty of workers who do it.
Good point about internet cafes, they are apparently main way of playing games in some parts of the world. In Poland they were popular around 20 years ago when nobody had a decent internet but now prices of both computers and internet fallen sharply and they disappeared.
Not entirely, but more or less, plus far right grifters noticed the birth of that new subculture which is, as you said, in their very class condition very susceptible to their propaganda, and fell hard on them.
Just bouncing off your “not entirely” response - something interesting I noted in Peru was the utter ubiquity of internet cafés advertising pre-installed League of Legends, Dota 2 and WoW clients inside, and the variety of the clientele they served in age, apparent gender and apparent status. Was a bit of a culture shock coming from the U.S. where nigh every gamer has their own console and/or computer.
By “not entirely” i mean that this “Actual working class is too busy producing parts of that computer to play any games” is nonsese, because obviously not every worker produce parts of computers and most of them do have at least some free time and if they do play games in this time it shouldn’t be really our place to tell them they are too busy to do that. At least i and apparently you too know plenty of workers who do it.
Good point about internet cafes, they are apparently main way of playing games in some parts of the world. In Poland they were popular around 20 years ago when nobody had a decent internet but now prices of both computers and internet fallen sharply and they disappeared.