Out Loud: Finding Connection and Resisting Extraction in Quarantine Gaming

Edge Effects
20/04/2021 17 min
Out Loud: Finding Connection and Resisting Extraction in Quarantine Gaming

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, video games offered Nat Mesnard and many others an escape from isolation. But the false promise of endless productivity in factory building games like Satisfactory ensnared them in a myth of capitalist "progress."
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