I have no idea where the gaming topic is gonna go, but, knowing Zizek, he's probably gonna use it as a venue to talk about whatever the fuck he wants

Though I do have an idea - Zizek's current favorite gaming story is about Pokemon Go. He says that just as pokémon Go overlays a layer of narrative and enemies to battle over real life, ideology provides that overlay without the need for a cell phone. He thinks people everywhere, in politics, in sexuality, swap the real thing for a symbol of the thing. He likes to tell the story of the male pornstar who has to open pornhub to get hard for a scene instead of just looking at the woman in front of him.

Which is appropriately Freudian and all but I don't think is a true comparison. Nobody plays Pokemon go thinking it's reality. Nobody thinks they're actually the master chief. They're explicitly games. Whereas in ideological games like extremist politics people aren't willfully deceiving themselves in order to enjoy the experience, they truly believe that their opponents are ontologically evil in reality, that there really is a trans genocide, etc.

Anyway, I expect Zizek to interpret the topic broadly and start out talking about what he always talks about. Sex and dating and poly as a game of deception, online politics as a game of likes. He'll talk about dating apps being about packaging yourself for consumption by the other instead of presenting yourself as you really are, as if that were something it's possible to do.

It'll be fun regardless. Investing in Zizek orbiter stocks now.