So, Popular Japanese Kids' Game has gotten so pervasive, you can randomly point at someone on the street and shout, "Are you asking me for a challenggggge?!" and find yourself playing a game with someone who's got their own gimmicky style.Why hasn't the global economy crashed from everyone only taking jobs related to the game?
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If so many people are playing it, it probably represents the majority of humanity's leisure activity. If its displaced other leisure activities, there'd still be plenty of people engaged in "productive" industries.
How much money goes into professional sports do you think?
I always thought of it as almost the same as any other big sport where every town has a massive stadium.
Almost...
The big difference being that a single company tends to own those card games, so people can't even compete without paying for those cards.
Fff. Now I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to have an open rules protocol in that kind of modular setup (implied) when I should be sleeping. Curse my overactive imagination and spotty impulse control.
I mean, how would you regulate that to prevent gamebreaking, without anybody controlling the first-order metagame?
Haven't you noticed?
The global economy HAS crashed.
Has there been any show along those lines that actually draws plot from the game's influence on the economy? The closest I can think of is Metalocalypse, which is, of course, focused on a band instead of a game.
Blacker than the blackest black, TIMES INFINITY!
This has apparently been the most recent post long enough that I feel the need to qualify it. No I'm not a huge death metal fan. Well kinda, but mostly just ironically. I find the whole "the world is death, and decay, and delouse" view as silly as looking at the world like it's sunshine lolipops and rainbows and all that stuff.
Belated thought: my screen was like that until I adjusted the gamma. (Now the UI is all washed out. I guess my original settings were the intended settings, and actually seeing things is for wimps.)
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