u/Duke_Versewalker

Here me out, if you're a PC gamer and a socialist or communist, you should definitely play Star Citizen. Star Citizen (as you may or may not know) is a space sim which 1. exists outside the corporate game developement model and 2. provides a large and highly detailed virtual environment to organize and train. It's an MMO so gameplay is persistent, there's a developing economy based on industries like mining, salvaging, combat, and more built for group gameplay (as opposed to soloing). The map is vast and currently each shard can contain up to 700 players at a time which is set to increase to 10 thousand players per shard. The Star Citizen community, like all gaming communities, is saturated with liberals, reactionaries and fascists, so there's a great opportunity for leftists to take advantage of untapped engagment. Further, because it's first person and more detailed than any game ever made, the environment is perfect to experiment with different approaches to organization. In a way, the persistent universe (PU) in Star Citizen is the perfect parallel universe to practice offensive and defensive strategies against reactionaries in addition to being an opportune place to organize. I hope that this post generates interest, commentary, and questions that I can help answer. More importantly, I hope that it inspires leftists/socialists/communists to start an organization within the game and invite me to it.

Sincerely,

Comrade Versewalker

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u/Duke_Versewalker — 10 days ago