• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I have a suspicion most of the people playing these are office workers, wondering what it would feel like to contribute something tangible to society.

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      Can’t speak for other games, but there’s a LOT of former truck drivers who play Snow Runner.

      Back when I was working as a forklift driver, when I broke my leg and was stuck at home on the sofa I really enjoyed driving the forklift around in GTA5 and just moving palettes​ around.

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      I choose to believe the only people who play Euro Train simulator are German train conductors who want to pretend to operate a train while eating pretzels and drinking a responsible amount of beer.

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      I work with kids who are seeking vocational education, and I can tell you that it is definitely not just office workers.

      A favorite is euro truck sim 2. Weirdest case I’ve met though is farming sim. I’ve talked with 16 year olds who’d play that game for hours daily. Even got a friend of the family who’ll come home from driving a tractor for 14 hours straight, and then play farming sim to wind down.

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        I know the farming simulator type of people. I think those people simply have a high professional interest in farming economy, management and agricultural technology.

        Even more impressing than those who play every FS 20xx for hours I find those who mod for the games. Year after year they photograph, model, program and share their equipment, which is sometimes decades old.

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        Playing ETS2 is just something you do while listening to the radio, the long highway stretches of not having to reverse a trailer into the eye of a needle are superbly relaxing.

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    Ugh, these games just seem like so much work, I want to relax.

    Sits at computer, pulls out calculator and notepad before opening Satisfactory

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    I’ve put a ridiculous number of hours into Ship Graveyard Simulator 2. Why am I, a white collar guy from a developed country, spending hours pretending to be a Sri Lankan with one of the worst jobs in the world? It’s bizarre when you think about it.

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    Who am I to judge? I’ve played several nuclear power plant sims… But come on? Gleisbau? And a sim where you’re paint stripes on roads? Go home Germany, you’re drunk.

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    11 months ago

    Yesterday I spent 1,5 hours to sort my 550 mods for a new Rimworld playthrough. Game didn’t launch, so I decided to try again another day and ended up playing Guild Wars 2.

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    You have the expertise to cause the maximum amount of chaos, then you reload and nobody is the wiser.

    It’s like the simulation games in minority report

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    I’ve found the easiest way for me to knock hours off the clock without noticing is to smoke up and play a little PowerWash Simulator.