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   :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 02:46:09 JST :ihavenomouth:
   what's so collectivist about gothic? you have to take any job you can find or starve to death, which sounds super capitalist to me. or is it because it takes place in a gulag?
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     PunishedD (punishedd@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 02:59:23 JST PunishedD

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     @Inginsub I watched part of this. "Collectivist" means you have to ascend a social hierarchy in the game to get something done. You don't go from prison to the royal court, you have to work your way up by gaining reputation and standing.
     
     By contrast, in something like Skyrim, you can run from the start of the game straight to the throne room and the king/chief/big boss will talk to you. It's "individualist" because the world reacts to individual character encounters, not the overall social context the world says they should be in.
     
     It's not a bad observation, but it's not worth 46 minutes of rambling.
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