You know, I play this U.S government simulator and I believe people take this game waay too seriously.
I have been playing this game for months, the party I am in is pretty chill, but outside of it is total white trash. You got people being rude and making anti semitic jokes; it has gotten better but one guy in our party had to fight HARD to keep it at bay.
We have simulated elections, make bills and vote on them just like you would in real government. We have the president, congress and the supreme court. I think people on there need to realize that their bills and speeches don’t actually make any real or meaningful changes in peoples lives.
I recently got a state “job” in a governors cabinet and feel incredibily stressed out about it already. Seems like they demand your attention 100% like a real job. This makes no sense.
TL;DR: People treating a game like a real actual job.
Not knowing the specific game you are talking about (maybe give us a link), I can speak for myself when playing games in general. I usually act much more dickish than in real life because I know there are no lasting real world consequences.
By all that’s holy, I honestly thought the OP was doing a comedy bit: pretending the current real-world government situation is just a simulation being played by oodles of white-trash gamers who enjoy making speeches and passing laws that don’t actually help anyone – and even the folks who aren’t given to anti-semitic rudeness still don’t act like government work is a full-time job where they’re doing something real and meaningful; it’s mere entertainment that isn’t supposed to be taken seriously.
Me too, although I thought it was more in the context that the elections were basically all smoke and mirrors anyway to hide the real power driving the world.
Shame…that would have been an interesting thread.