I don’t play video games per se. I see them as someone’s (often dystopian) distilled view of the world. Players aren’t particularly multi- dimensional. At best they have a ‘mission’ and maybe a relationship. Usually the latter is a version of unconditional bromance.

And as ideal as that sounds, mostly they’re compensating for father/brother issues where understandably, relationships have more nuance.

I suspect one day video games and like-worlds, including “relationships” with AI – most of which are flattering, will be shown to have had an extremely corrosive effect on society.

Reducing anyone to a pun is demeaning. And yet we all are already. I’m multiple somebody’s 60,000 data sets. From their prospective, I’m nothing but a set of account values, demographic stats, and physical actions- depending on where my phone has gone.

Here’s an essay I wrote about seeing others as puns- that is, puny superficial creatures.

Imp-unity or Im-punity –