honestly like… I DO work, in videogames, I’m happy to do menial tasks for hours and I enjoy it it’s just the part where you have to do it to live irl and there’s nobody out there looking for people who can click buttons a lot
Honestly, people generally don’t want much… They want to eat their favorite food. They want to go to the seaside and smell the fresh air. They want to nap on the grass and listen to music. They want to hold their loved ones in their arms, and be held in return. They want warm clothes, be occupied with a profession/a hobby that does not smother them. They want to feel safe and unafraid. Mostly, they want to live without being ridiculed, manipulated or being forced. And this is why capitalism/modern life overall is so upsetting, depressing and even destructive. Because thinking about how small and simple things you yearn for & how hard it is to even be able to have them really wears you off
“Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don’t ask who deserves it. Every human being deserves it.”
the majority of complaints people have had with skyward sword are just baffling
too linear? oh no, a videogame is linear?? backtracking? dude there’s literally new areas it’s not even backtracking through the same area and again oh no a videogame reuses its content to extend playtime ghirahim/the imprisoned being hard/tedious? well actually they’re only hard or tedious because the game is punishing you for being bad or not using your brain enough (it’s also plot important that this dude keeps coming back and dealing with it is tiring)
the “you live with your parents” insult is really flaccid because a metric shitton of cultures don’t see “leave the house forever” as some grandiose moment of liberation that’s so important to the development of a person that it has to happen as fast as possible. until i came to the USA i didn’t know a single person who was pressured by their parents to leave the house because they’re “too old to stay there” or whatever. in puerto rico it is really common to stay with your parents until they and you are both stable enough that you can leave. whaddaya know, there are cultures that don’t place a stigma on being poor or wanting to care for your family or needing your family to care for you for some other reason.
