Do You Know Why I Play eRepublik So Much?
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by Johnobrow
Because there is nothing about the real world that isn't alienating or disenfranchising. The system tears all human relationships asunder in the name of profit. The English proletariat used to be tied to the machines of labour. Today they are tied to the machines of social substitute, of numbing illusion, of spectacle and fantasy.
The people are asleep. In a dream like state, unaware of the world around them, the reality of their situation. But is this illusion a fantasy? Is this ignorance bliss? Nay. It is no happiness that capitalism has brought the world. It is a hellish nightmare. The solution is a hazy noise like static in the background, on the edge of your consciousness. To tune in you must awaken from the sleep. The people must wake up. Wake up!
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WAKE UP!
true comrade
voted 😃
You play because it is a trap. You invest time into the game, and your investment gives it value. As you acquire status, high skill, strength, reputation and influence you find yourself logging in and spending time just to maintain that status quo. Unlike RL the results of work in a browser game are immediately rewarded. The possibilities here are much greater. You are like a rat in a trap 😛
Have you been reading Debord?
'The first phase of the domination of the economy over social life brought into the definition of all human realization the obvious degradation of being into having. The present phase of total occupation of social life by the accumulated results of the economy leads to a generalized sliding of having into appearing, from which all actual "having" must draw its immediate prestige and its ultimate function. At the same time all individual reality has become social reality directly dependent on social power and shaped by it. It is allowed to appear only to the extent that it is not.'
good song, I hear ya talking brotha
we are all products of status quo and the world passed down by our elders. Their sins are passed to us to either repeat or undo. It aint fair but that's the way it is. As far as eRepublik goes, it is mainly a distraction, something to do when there isn't much else to do, or something to do when you really should be doing something else, lol. It can be good practice to sharpen your analytical/writing/researching/journalis m skills since the media is such a huge part of this game. There are alot of different ways to play and view this game. Some go into leadership, some sit back and analyze things. Some just go with the flow, some rage against it (Pun intended)
The "real world" has a tendency to make you feel insignificant and lost in the scheme of things, in eRepublik it is way easier to make an impact.
Yep John, all of that, etc.
Nothing to say. Apart from interested in the business angle too, and the horrible scaling pains that the eRep team CANNOT sort out. Like enjoying being in a car-crash 🙂
For Keers:
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Hugs.
G x
voted.
The answer is a kebab washed down by Whiskey as you sit alone in the cellar listening to your friends screams in the darkness.
Why don't they like me ? i feed them twice a week and they get new straw first of every month 😒
They were'nt happy out there anyway,they have no troubles now i look after them until they go quiet then i place them with the others under the floorboards.
Johnobrow Dadds if it's got too much for you number 3 has'nt said much for the last few days so i may have a space for you soon 😉
Horice 🙂
lmao
omg, am I falling in e-love with Horice???
eeek!
I do love a mmmwwwuuhahahahaha man 🙂
even if he is a brit 😛
G x
Wow was this really 5 months ago? The weirdest thing is I hadn't actually read any Debord when I wrote this.