Are They Literally Playing Games with Us?
I grew up watching a peer playing many videogames (and sometimes also playing them myself). The ones I preferred were the mindless simple ones, like Tetris or Donkey Kong. But my peer liked the ones where they—or should I say, he, since that’s the pronoun this peer goes by—preferred the world domination ones. Like, for example, Civilization. (Risk was his favorite board game, for reference.) I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately, in the middle of this attempt of…
