Subj : Re: Tabletop war and roleplaying games
To   : Arelor
From : hollowone
Date : Tue May 02 2023 12:25:30

 Ar> Honestly, many old forms of entertainment are just as valid as today's.

That is very true, especially when we talk about Chess and Checkers. :)

 Ar> See, I have been listening to some old radio shows as of late. Many are
 Ar> quite fine.

Well I laughed at my parent's devotion to Beatles, now I love Beatles' music too. Some things come with age.

 Ar> The problem with "platform based" entertainment is not that the
 Ar> entertainment is lower quality, but that it puts you in the hand of a
 Ar> complex chain of providers. If you buy a copy of Brass you will be
 Ar> playing Brass for the rest of your life if you want to. If you jump into
 Ar> a digital version of Brass, your entertainment now will require:

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That's why I hope we all discover that the subscription and engagement economy is nothing more than slavery. Slavery meant just like in ancient times or feudal times with (land)lords and serfs... or citizens and slaves in Rome.. it was not always bad to be a slave back then... but you owned nothing, you were owned at the end and the owner defined level of services and quality of life available to you.

This whole servicing economy is turning most of us into modern slaves, games, cars, residential rental/co-living... we're one of the last generations who massively may even appreciate ownership and control over the physical aspects of the air we breathe.

Soon we may pay taxes to breathe if we're not worthy and global warming put as corporate CSR excuse to blur us from knowing, they're polluting. Just a metaphoric analogy, colorized to extreme, but I hope you get the point.

 Ar> 
 Ar> This reliance on third parties is a new phenomenom.
 Ar> 

As I have already written up there... we're enslaving each other..

-h1

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