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Gamers are super dumb but why is that exactly? Is it a product of seeing the world through the lens of game narratives?
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
I really think that the cringe game narratives + lack of social interaction irl are part of the problem but i think the main problem is that games nowadays absolutely destroy your ability to pay attention and retain information, just like social media.