Surviving in a dying capitalistic society,a Digimon masters retrospective
tags: internet, opinion, videogames
You tough that this was about real live based on the first part of the title?Nope,its another Digimon hatepost from a huge fan that got burned^.
My autistic desire for collecting creatures had lead me to a lot of places,and a liberal market hellscape that’s unregulated and created to enslave you if you aren’t willing to relinquish your real live money to reduce a grind that wont end,because the reward at the end of the tunnel is more work,were your pay is based on layers and layers of obscure chance,like if you were gambling your live just for a 5/5 kiwimon that’s still terrible because you haven’t invested the massive resources it takes to bring it to its max potential,and when you finally do it becomes another pickaxe that searches a pickaxe for another pickaxe,and all of those are obsolete before you even get the chance because the curve of power move higher at an unreasonable speed and you need to be a literal trillionare in a broken economy just to have a chance to bargain with someone that choose to sell out just to get one of the many pieces of the multilayered puzzle that is the ultimate pickaxe,the one that will do the job for you and will drain the “fun” out of it all.
All of this happens while you are trapped in a jail filled with other willful slaves that have lost their way in live just like you,you bond with them like if they were your family because all of them need to in order to stand a chance against a rigged system that keeps stomping on them,they will form real bonds over the suffering that they have to deal with in the cybernetic jail,and both them and you will form strong relationships and bonds to fight the tedium of the daily grind.And understanding the pain others are going trough,you will whiteknight the fresh flesh of the prison,knowing very well they need help,and remembering your experiences were some random guy from the other side of the planet helped you.This is the only good part of the experience,and your experience might not be as good as mine,as there’s no bigger variance machine than the human brain.
All of this,for nothing,there is no reward,it isn’t even all about the game,there is no intrinsic enjoyment,just pain and suffering,your only joy comes from fellow slaves who also suffer,that are only here to avoid reality just like you.
I had around 10000 hours in this cursed game and my biggest joy was having the mental fortitude to win,to leave,am i free?Maybe not,but reality is not that bad for now.
Also,I just realized i described every MMO ever released,and probably every progression gamblecore game like vampire survivors,just remove the fun part of meeting people out of that garbage casino.
^there are good Digimon games and media,I just don’t talk about it here,now go watch X evolution and play re:digitize decode,if you want to.