I watched the Zombie games from the 20 year old in the house ...
Message:It was like having cancer in my brain but it amused him.
In the game, you start with a stick or a rock or basically nothing. You collect grubs, vines, dirt, and mud and you make an axe, then a brick, then a kettle ... eventually you have a spaceship or tokamak reactor (or so I would assume).
Only thing, it's easier to kill new dudes then to bother collecting that crap. Once you have a spear or halberd, they die quick.
So, they wait at the spawn points and then kill all the new dudes coming in ... for their rock or belly lint or broken teeth or whatever.
You spend days collecting pebbles to make a lean to. And, by lean-to, I mean pretend lean-to ... since none of them could build such a thing in the real world.
Eventually, all the new dudes flee anyone they see in the game and it becomes this elaborate game of convincing new people that you aren't going to kill them ... so you can get them close enough ... to kill them and take their spleen for writing paper or something. Like sheep to the slaughter.
In a perverse way, it was funny. The 20 year old knew that guys calling him were all lying. We watched as the next Hannibal slayed one after the other.
For the same effort, you could actually accomplish things in the real world. The bells, whistles, and cooing of the game is quite intoxicating. The psychology is well known.
Rather than learning how to bang two boards together, they spend thousands on computer gear to pretend bang two boards together. Board banging is actually harder than it looks. (Funny, it never really involves rubbing your hands together for 20 seconds or so.)
My hobbies are a wasteful distraction as well. I take no offense. But, they don't give me the same blind endorphin rush. (Or maybe they do.)
I read the comments as "sure it's shitty" but it's expected to be shitty because it's new." So shitty but not shitty.
One might ask, "So, we both agree it's shitty, why not wait for it to not be shitty?"
To which you will get, "I don't want to miss out that it MIGHT not be shitty later because Reasons." It is a powerful intoxicant.
Funny thing Valheim is said to be a place where dead Vikings go to prove themselves. I can only conclude those that chose to prove themselves in a pretend Valheim have already failed.
The irony is lost on the sheep.
Yours,
IronConrad
14-Jun-2021