all hobbies, when shared and discussed in a community, eventually get reduced to the same obsessive collecting and object fetishization and all of them speak to the same kind of consumer frenzy and sickness. i'm sick of it

oops I can't read and some of these folks are dead in the ground. oh well!

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys