• Gay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    A bunch of comments going “buddy you might be trans.” Beyond the fallout nv meme like most of the things on this list either focused on girls, allow you to play as a girl or are games where you can basically ignore the protagonists gender. This would also explain the lack of The Witcher from someone with a polish flag in bio. trans-egg

    • danisth [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      The cyberpunk genre is pretty clearly a criticism of capitalism, but the main story in the game is basically a libertarians response to that, so they’re not totally off the mark.

      • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        pirated it since 2.0 and PL hit and you’re pretty much spot on. “corporations are bad because they control everything, but not because capitalism itself is bad, i just want to blow shit up by myself”

    • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Chuds liking fallout is proof no amount of subtext is enough for some people. You have to explicitly bash people over the head with your intended message if you dont want people to interpret it as exactly the opposite.

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        Fallout 3 has a 100 foot tall robot made by the US government that shoots lasers out of its eyes while screaming “I hate communism”. A group of rogue soldiers with a technology fetish managed to take over this robot in a dramatic scene where said 100 foot tall robot stomps through the streets of the nuclear blasted ruins of Washington D.C. fighting off the remains of the federal government. Chuds unironically love liberty prime anyway. There is no bashing over the heads blatant enough for these people

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          I always liked how it says “death is preferable to communism” in a fucked up dead wasteland. Like, really? I think I’d take the communism over having my dick melt off because a nuclear automobile blew up during a gun fight over a can of chef boyardee.

          Chuds couldn’t read subtext if it was tattooed to their retinas.

    • CrushKillDestroySwag [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      plus MG:R pretty explicitly has the protagonist fighting against the US government and global imperialism. The first mission is trying to prevent a left of center African head of state from being assassinated!

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    I was about to post something about media illiteracy, but on second thought it looks like a dumb attempt to claim some relatively innocuous pieces of media.

    Like, no way in hell can anyone claim that MGR:R’s politics is right leaning

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          Really reaching for most of these but I can think up a few:

          • Hetero-normative relationships (if you’re blind)
          • Everybody at the school is super rich (except Shirogane) and not vilified
          • Ethnically homogenous (“Japan is an ethnostate which is why it’s based”)
          • Shirogane is an example of just working hard being enough to succeed
          • Two (and maybe three now?) generations of Kashiwagi’s boyfriend’s family have married their high school gfs in shotgun weddings
          • Shirogane’s mom leaving caused suffering to their family, and this chud interprets this as being against women’s rights?
          • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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            I think I can find counter points to every single one of this and I’m anime only.

            I think the biggest counter point is Kaguya is very much a boss woman type, she is very much exactly the opposite of what chud and most weebs want.

            Obviously its a gag comedy as well so of course she can be silly, but I don’t believe for a second any chud would actualy enjoy having a relationship let alone being close to that type of person IRL.

  • AlpineSteakHouse [any]@hexbear.net
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    To a certain extent this is true, but less so a political ideology and more “Isolated person who is terminally online” which happens to have a 1-1 overlap with both communists and fascists.

    Let’s be honest, well-adjusted people are not playing HellTaker and DDLC despite them being very good games. Most people play FO:NV once or twice and think it’s pretty good. They don’t install 500+ mods to try to escape from the meaninglessness of existing in a society in which you can neither influence nor find comfort in. It’s just an unfortunate shared characteristic between us the far-right wing.

    If most people on Hexbear had a safe existence, happy childhood, and meaningful social life then they would not be here.

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      If most people on Hexbear had a safe existence, happy childhood, and meaningful social life then they would not be here.

      … Is this “Communists are just angry losers” but from the left?

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        It’s “westerners as a group do not have the material basis to desire revolution because they live relatively comfortable lives so the people who disagree are isolated from society.”

        The only people for whom the violence and chaos of revolutionary war would be worth it are largely traumatized or marginalized individuals. It’s why the vast majority of revolutions only happen in countries where the status quo was borderline hell. The idea that communists have better thoughts so they choose communism is pure liberal/idealistic ideology comrade.

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          Agree but theres also a number of comrades who were so spoiled that they fell into socialism as a way of rebellion and it likely made too much sense to leave.

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      Come to think of it, yeah.

      I cannot believe I was ever actually afraid of these people. Maybe they’re only a threat because they outnumber us by the millions (never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups), but individually they’re losers. Even the stereotypical right-wing bodybuilder, I have a cousin that fits the bill but he’s your run of the mill republican rather than an outright fash.

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    I don’t think any of these games, except maybe EUIV, are in any way pro-fascist.

    Though it’s not like fascists would ever put in the effort to really make their own video games, that takes time, effort, skill and creativity, and if they had those they probably wouldn’t be fascists.

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      EUIV is just pro colonialism and imperialism, no fascism there. Thats HOI IV /s

  • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Persona 5

    The villain of most of the game is a fascist strongman (and his closest supporters - explicitly portrayed as a collection of rich and powerful people) who schemes his way to power and gains support through a “We’re gonna make Japan strong” plattform.

    Shin Megami Tensei and Persona often have stinky politics, especially P4 and SMT IV, but P5 is definitely among the better ones, even if the ending to the vanilla plot is kinda meh.