Comment by hinata08 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by hinata08 | Hacker News Reader

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why would you drive cars in video games ?

I have little interrest in real life cars.

Real cars pollute much more, cost a lot, you have to take care of them, pay attention not to crash them, and you can kill innocent families with them

I don't habe the budget for a Lambo and modding a street car is illegal. And even if I could, I wouldn't have the interrest to spend a decade to build a racing car that I could just crash at any time.

I don't want a miata because I have bicycles and friends.

The plot around driving your own car is terrible. At least video games have a scenario

I can see myself doing a heist to have fun with friends in GTA, but not in real life

>Why would anyone take their hard earned money and purchase the sprite of a car and drive it around a video game

More like why would anyone take their hard earned money and burn it at the petrol station, on sets of tires, and on endless mechaniscs.

A video game is 60$, a Miata is 20.000$

And I already cycle around, so I won't just pollute and waste money for the track day

You’re still missing the point entirely. The purpose of a car is to take you from a to b. If you don’t need that service, you don’t need a car at all, and if you don’t need a car it’s doubly true you don’t need a virtual car even if it is cheaper. It’s not real they’re selling a fantasy. You’re trading a real burger for a photo of a burger. You can’t eat that.

The real world utility is spending time in pleasant manner. Virtual cars provide that exactly the same way as virtual anything.

> The purpose of a car is to take you from a to b. If you don’t need that service, you don’t need a car at all

It would take like 2 hours to walk across the GTA V map on foot north to south.

> and if you don’t need a car it’s doubly true you don’t need a virtual car even if it is cheaper

Wait, are you saying if I don't need a car in reality, I don't need a car in a game? I'm not the Hero of Time, so I guess I don't need any weapons when playing Zelda. I'm not a soldier, so I don't need guns in Battlefield.

You make an excellent point. Why are you playing video games at all?

You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.

how dare you ?

>If you don’t need that service, you don’t need a car at all

You're repeating Marx's "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"

that's socialism

> It’s not real they’re selling a fantasy.

and yes, that's capitalism

let me live in the 21st century of mass media and video games. I want that.

I want to fill my existential void with consumption and video games. They're fun.

Fantasy is a popular product for many reasons, especially for those who have inner fantasy response. Too bad you seem to completely lack one. Personally I’d fall into a heavy depression if the only thing I could enjoy about X was its physical property.

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