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This is how we should be talking to people tbh.
Using bideogame to describe reality really resonates with people, relating videogame mechanics to the mechanics of life really helps a lot of people visually understand things.
I would go so far as to argue that japanese media where every single god damn isekai has videogame mechanics is a solid example of how so many people want to interpret the world around them in videogame language.
Describing economic precarity as an execution meter at which point you become one-shot within society with no respawns is an easier to understand concept for normies who know all these game mechanics but do not understand political or economic phrases.
I know a lot of you hate this shit but getting through to the people that have a below average education or comprehension level requires a below average way of speaking. This sounds condescending but there is no way to talk about the bottom 50% of the population other than with such honesty. If you say precarity to
Cuno he's not going to understand a word being said, but put it in videogame language and he will. This is important, the western left is very good at talking to educated liberals (often the more educated the better) but not very good at reaching below that where media is more successful at manipulating them rightwards than we are at speaking to them.
"your boss has lethal on you fam. you gonna get pwnd like a n00b or you gonna take the pro strat and join the union?"
fuck that might actually work
Can't believe my firm has both Culling Strike and At Will Employment