skybrook
"@Background Pony #15DF":/images/6415551#comment_10474
Minecraft miiiight not be the best example since you have to be completely mental to monotonously mine out diamonds and shit, and the developers added in fire spreading and TNT which really have no use other than griefing, and in the spirit of vidya in general they set you up with a barely unwinnable scenario to hook you like some schmuck on the slot machines, always one creeper away from losing hours of hard work, work which you know, on some level, is completely imaginary and completely dependent on the company's whim.
So there's a lot of psychology in place to make players want to just burn it all down.
"@Background Pony #08A5":/images/6415551#comment_10478
Honestly I feel like debt is a bigger factor than laziness. Financial debt and y'know debt to society like when you get people killed and get away with it. People get in debt, they get desperate, and they get organizations like the NSA greenlit to try to keep their past from catching up to them. The assholes using that desperation to make themselves untouchable are more a symptom than a cause of the problem.
Minecraft miiiight not be the best example since you have to be completely mental to monotonously mine out diamonds and shit, and the developers added in fire spreading and TNT which really have no use other than griefing, and in the spirit of vidya in general they set you up with a barely unwinnable scenario to hook you like some schmuck on the slot machines, always one creeper away from losing hours of hard work, work which you know, on some level, is completely imaginary and completely dependent on the company's whim.
So there's a lot of psychology in place to make players want to just burn it all down.
"@Background Pony #08A5":/images/6415551#comment_10478
Honestly I feel like debt is a bigger factor than laziness. Financial debt and y'know debt to society like when you get people killed and get away with it. People get in debt, they get desperate, and they get organizations like the NSA greenlit to try to keep their past from catching up to them. The assholes using that desperation to make themselves untouchable are more a symptom than a cause of the problem.