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Today's Devil's Advocate takes a slight detour to introduce our readers to "Outside", no, not that mythical land beyond your own front door, but, rather, a game that has captured our attention. Find out why and then leave your thoughts in the comments.
People who post on r/Outside are using the subreddit’s community guidelines to ask questions about life, personal enhancement, social mores, and existential philosophies. The catch is that everyone treats this as a forum for the game they’re all playing: real life. Using their own take on gaming lingo, the Outsiders (as I like to call them) use the subreddit as a place to destress from the idiosyncrasies of life. They also act as a support group, finding ways to better understand human situations using gaming terminology as the means of creating helpful analogies.
Read more of Victor Barreiro Jr.'s The Devil's Advocate: Enjoying r/Outside.
Comments
Great article.
Good to see humanity doesn't suck everywhere over the internet.
MMORPG Gamers/Developers need a reality check!
Really enjoyed the article and gave the videos a watch. Also visited the reddit r/Outside forum and liked what I saw. Great to see people reaching out to one another, sharing humour, poking gentle fun at gaming, and, most importantly, offering help when needed using language which is non-threatening.
Thoughtful and thought-provoking article and links. Thank you.
Sadly the in-game politics are giant pain in the arse!
Not to mention the constant clan battles over which religion is more uber gets annoying fast. Why the developer(s?) let this happen, I will never know.
Also be very careful of guys playing girls in this game. lmao.
MMORPG Gamers/Developers need a reality check!
To be fair, I wasn't expecting this to be particularly comment worthy. My hope, however, is that people actually go to the subreddit and see a different way of viewing games and gaming culture.
More importantly, perhaps some of us will consider going to that world more often... Outside seems interesting.
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