rocketverliden:

kontextmaschine:

Just had a WEIRD experience playing Rocket League online where I very much suspect I was automatched on the team of two Arab nobles against three sequentially numbered servant accounts (only one manned)

This is a thing? How many aristocratic-gentry-esports-things are there in the world? I know states putting a lot of stock into esports is one thing, but to have heads of state and the like treat video games as another avenue of play much like a king would treat something like croquet or polo feels odd and interesting.

well the nobility goes pretty deep away from matters of state towards Versailles superfluity in some Arab countries; from context one was Bahraini and one Jordanian

Abdullah II of Jordan is mocked as “King Playstation” sometimes tho.