The Game You Can’t Win
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A short story about a group of individuals who find themselves in a game of chance of which they can’t escape.
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@Chris-d2k2r
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
I think it is in relation to "mind game" and it of course is related to live as whole. Try and find meaning in something that is meaningless, everyone plays and follows rules that are "agreed" upon and only when the population decides that they won't there cannot be a revolution or decide together putting aside your ego and selfishness to stop caring or desire to win. Open to interpretation and has nileism, existenalism, etc
@NotSoNormal1987
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
I'd probably get very bored very quickly and choose to do something else with my time. Cookie clicker is a far more interesting game.
But maybe that attitude is why I have struggled with nihalism and existential dread since I was 5 or 6 years old…
@JustAGentlemanZ
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
I😅😮😅😅😅😅 I poopoo my pants and then I go to sleep 🛌
@dominicfirpo297
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
There should be a degree of cooperation which leads to more back and forth of winning and losing. Occasionally helping other players and maybe some betrayal of other players. Spice it up with some drama!
@sirtom3011
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
You should just not be so emotionally invested in the game. Just treat it like a game.
@TinaMcCall.
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
Great allegory for: capitalism, patriarchy, tradition, religion, racism…
@ericbrocious6047
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
I never got the entire competitive aspect of human existence. Maybe I didn’t get the manual when I was a youngster that we should all step on, undermine, and belittle others to get ahead.
@vwr32jeep
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
They could have just used World of Warcraft as the game.
@ghost2130Main
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
i mean its free food and place
@IDesireToUpliftOthers
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
I would laugh at the people that chose to stay just because another guy did
@RGC_animation
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
How about increasing the player base and increasing the hostility and violence level of each of them by a bit, then program the moderator to not do anything except answer questions, and then after a while, you'll have people actually killing each other and that would be an excellent advertisement, like "your very own virtual death game!"
@RGC_animation
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
MrBeast 100 days challenge is pretty much exactly this except there's a bit of money involved, and I guess more entertaining.
@ozziepilot2899
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
The Game of Life of course 😂
@ethanpetersen810
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
People here are saying this is supposed to be a metaphor for life as a whole, and I disagree. Saying our entire lives are pointless and we should just stop and end them is not helpful.
The game represents things in life that involve conflict and competition with each other that don't really matter, like trying to becoming richer or more popular than other people, win arguments, or maybe even win actual games. Eventually we realize that these pursuits are pointless and do more harm than good, and it would be better if we just stopped caring and stopped "playing the game."
But we don't because we've "tightly associated our identities with our positions" and so we can't let go even though we want to. We've invested so much into trying to beat someone else and be successful that we don't want to give up. We don't actually want to win the thing we're trying to win anymore, we just want to say "we've won." We're driven more by "self-esteem rather than rationality."
@danielaupperle
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
Ah, the game of life
@artemis8368
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
Yea that's very very very similar to the movie "Exam"
@elliotw4606
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
Bit dramatic of af a video. If people knew you won nothing and it was jyst a game chances are theres going to be at least a few entire groups that will all quit within seconds or not even play. Playing with no prize to most people is basically telling people "who wants to waste time but whoever does it least wins… Nothing".
@Nico-pb1sr
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
squid game
@vladdraketepes
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
the f did i just watched lol
@tdkage
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play
@mikitesfaye8079
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
I want in
@abhixguitar4444
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
Let's say it's a LIFE game then I want to be a player who gets his reward in the joy that he gets by playing and not by result and not get affected by his position in the game🙂.
@ocdmusic
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
They should invite George R R Martin on their next update of the game, could make things a lot more interesting!
@soma_donat
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
I need somebody to do this as a social experiment. I so want to see real people play this.
@EmersonBosworthJr
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
Isn't Marriage the game you can never win?
@ag5768
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
This video is similar to the game in that its utterly useless but I will watch it, then tell myself it was not or smth
@ash-is-trash
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
jokes on u I would leave at 420 and feel content
@zipho
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm
what did I just watch?
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