Kulušbədəs

apolitical -> Marxist -> Mostly Marxist-Leninist

I was pretty much apolitical and mostly focused on gamedev and video games in general rather than politics. I did however have some liberal tendencies due to both the gamedev scene and me being queer.

A lot of things changed me and for me after the 12 day war. I decided to understand the world and be more knowledgeable on politics, in short why do the things currently happening happen. Seeing that a lot of my countrymen didn’t show much concern about our country being bombed by the countries they ovulate for, I decided to question whatever they hate. One of those was and is “the left”, as they put it. Throughout all my life I always heard about how everyone hates “the left”. No one would say what “the left” in question actually believed in. The only thing everybody would repeat was that “they caused the revolution and took the freedom we had under Pahlavi”, “they were islamists”, “our lives suck because the Islamic republic is leftist”(!!!), ignoring how, in 1988, thousands of the same leftists were executed by the IR, and the rest had to escape, leaving the Iranian workers’ movement paralyzed (besides like a hundred more reasons). In short, they didn’t make sense, so I decided to find out the truth on my own. The communist manifesto, being as famous as it is no matter the amount of anti-communist propaganda, was my first choice. With reading it I started the journey that would make me a Marxist.

After I became a Marxist, I came to despise most pro-capitalist social media. Also since I had a little experience with lemmy after the reddit blackout (I’m not a redditor anymore) before moving to tumblr, I decided to take a look again to see if it has become more populated or not as I actually did like the idea behind it. This brought me into lemmygrad and eventually into the ProleWiki project which has since made me a more mature Marxist and a helped me become a Marxist-Leninist.

The Prolewiki project has a discord server you can join

A lot of what you say here is true but i believe you’re being too general about the industry. First off, the differences of AAA and indie parts of the industry are really important in this particular subject. I’d say that what you discuss here, that being the ego and individualism’s effect in Gamedev, is mostly a problem in the indie scene. I’ve seen firsthand how it eventually causes the disbandment of dev teams because a member’s vision doesn’t exactly match what the “lead” has in mind or everyone wants something to go their way. AAA on the other hand, has various reasons for failure but i wouldn’t say individualism is that often of a cause. In my opinion, a lot of it falls on “corporate design” as some call it. Which instead of giving power and agency to the creatives (i.e. dev team), asks of them a checklist of what the shareholders believe will bring more profit for them or what they think the gaming community wants. This is usually a reaction to the indie scene (a successful indie game popularizes something and AAA follows suit), for a example how a lot of AAA games started adding rougelike modes to their games after the indie scene made the genre really popular. This neverending trend-seeking of the AAA shareholders is the main reason why the industry feels stagnated at times. Because instead of letting their studios try new things and experiment, the shareholders always put profit first and creativity second.

As a fellow purple enjoyer i feel you. Kinda. In my country one of the reformists called it his colour and it’s most of the time associated with him now. Fortunately the monarchists aren’t intelligent enough to find out about the colour’s connection to themselves. Let’s hope we can reclaim it.