Alright so I was gonna do a whole wanky article about my relationship with sports and shit. But it was boring so I scrapped it. It boiled down to me going “I’m different” and shit and abandoning “sportball” before eventually growing a brain and going nah I like this and I shouldn’t bully myself into not liking it. But something that helped me throughout this journey was the app known as New Star Soccer
Now New Star Soccer is a whole series of video games but the one i specifically plaid was the 2012 New Star Soccer Android game. Now the game is decent and I would go to on and off play it get bored delete it and then need the itch to be scratched in only the way NSS could scratch it causing me to reinstall the game. This cycle would slowly bring me to where I am now with soccer. I like it :). But currently I have a lot of time to burn with the whole covid dealio so I’ve reinstalled the game with the intention of becoming the perfect Soccer Star. It’s during this everyday grind I have come to notice just how bleak the life of a NSS star is.
Do you know what their life consists of? You choose male or female( I have no idea if gender makes a difference in this world, at least so far in my studies) and poof you exist at the ripe age of 15. You “try out” with the country you chose to play in and get assigned a random team in a low league. And from there week after week you play match after match hoping to slowly increase your “star rating” that relates to how much you will be paid,what teams you can join and whether or not you will be made the captain of the club. And all this is just to give you more money to make yourself more better at football through trainers,better boots, more property to give you back more energy,more energy drinks to give you energy plus varying effects. And why? So you can make even more money. And what can you do with money? Make yourself better at soccer and so on so forth.
And endless cycle continues forever. Your relationships? They exist only to give you more money or more opportunities e.g higher relationship with Teammates means you get the ball passed more often. You can get a girlfriend but they serve no purpose other than to fill up your happiness meter which I have no idea if it has any effects. It also makes the game harder because it adds another relationship to balance. But besides that no benefits. And all for some star bucks (which is about 1 star buck per 400 USD using a Hot Air Balloon to calculate). You become the perfect worker slaving away only focused on money and nothing else. You can play on and on decade after decade becoming no more closer to a fulfilled life. There’s not even money for your bosses as you will continuously get higher and higher contracts, a never ending supply of money.
And endless unfulfilling life based around the occasional soccer match. But the only alternative is obliteration. You could choose to retire. But retiring means you cease to exist. Which is better? Barely anything or the complete absence of anything, a complete lack of sadness or happiness. There are no negatives or positives to obliteration. You just have to choose whether no existence or a completely worthless existence is worthwhile. It is a horrible choice, perfect for the horrible existence of a NSS star. They are the ultimate slave force to be tortured forever. NSS is hell, where people go to be tortured for there past crimes before finally “retiring”. It is hell for the character you play,for those 1s and 0s. Maybe there is some catharsis. You could imagine that the 1s and 0s are the same 1s and 0s of an enemy that fucked you over in another game. If you do think of this I recommend you seek help you sadist.
Why would anyone or anything choose life as such a slave. Why, Why,why. To work for someone else with no joy in your life. Slaving away for nothing at all for material gains and infinite money. But just like real life it’s not infinite. Reach a certain point and the cracks show. The system crumbles down. Just like real life, the system will not last forever, there is no infinite money, the torture isn’t infinite. The real question is do you want this crash or do you seek obliteration. Freedom or the complete subservience. Socialism or Barbarism.
Or maybe I’m just reading too much into a crap mobile app developed into 2012. That seems very likely.