RTS games WOULD be the perfect genre of video games in an EXPLICITLY fascist state.
Sub-Cultural Imperialism, Racialized Politics, and The Left
Jaxson Scott
Justin Jackson
No it is not broken, did you mean the Lancastrian rose or something else?
Thomas Lopez
can you imagine what the relevance of that symbol might be?
Anthony Wright
No clue but I am pretty sure it was adopted before the 20th century and is a symbol of aristocracy and not fascism.
Michael Ward
But what if the opposite were true and RTS games WOULD be the perfect genre of video games in an EXPLICITLY socialist state?
Jace Young
Neither is true. RTS games are the perfect genre in an explicitly KOREAN state.
Kayden Thomas
train simulators are conceptually socdem but dovetail games is blairite
Michael James
CIV GAMES ARE INHERENTLY ANTI-LIBERAL AND COMMAND ECONOMY PILLED
Robert Smith
I've seen some of that, and while pc/woke stuff in it was a common complaint, there was also some stuff about lore bugs and just general shittiness in writing. The writing did look really shitty to me.
When you chain together assumptions into one big assumption, the probability of the big assumption being true is much lower than the average probability of one part of the chain. Consider the possibility that the writing has gotten more corny. Also, Bloodlines came out 15 years ago. When people remember media from their childhood or teenage years, they remember the impression it made on them back then. It's probable that people who were teens back then now have a heightened awareness of when writing gets corny, and that they are comparing the new thing not even directly with the old thing based on their tastes developed to their current standards, but just the impression they remember. Nostalgia is a common affliction. People tend to remember the best stuff, and they often don't play/watch/read again, but just rely on the impression they remember from a time when they were more easily impressed.
Young people don't like Trump as much as old people. I suspect you are looking at very specific niche groups and have an exaggerated belief of their size and impact.
Doesn't seem to exist: spacecommune.com
From what I remember: They didn't deliver the content on time as promised. Breakdown of how much money was needed for what was skeezy. Why do you need so much for games and consoles, if you have been gaming since forever (as Sarkeesian claimed in one interview, while saying gaming was new to her in another). Can't you just mostly rely on your massive gaming collection and borrowing things from your gaming friends and the library? Sarkeesian and her colleague John McIntosh also ripped gameplay sections from other gaming channels, so it is very unclear how much time they spent, if any, with the products they criticized.
You sound like the kind of person who gets shoved into a locker by the kind of person who usually gets shoved into a locker.
For gaming that would be copyright duration, bullshit patents, DRM, malware, pay2win DLC, advertising features not in game at launch (or ever), forced online, gambling regulations.
Tyler Sanchez
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, guys. I mean even Orwell wrote that you'd be hard-pressed to find some way to get a child to play with a "pacifist doll" instead of action figures. People enjoy RTS games because conflict is something entertaining to the human species, I don't believe it would subtly make anyone fascist.
And to address other points
People here are taking propaganda for objective reality. I know a lot of right wingers who became right wing almost entirely in response to "SJW" nonsense, I went to college with a few of them. You can call the decision immature, but that's not addressing anything.
I really don't get what's with this obsession so many people on the left have with the failings or impurities of people: yeah maybe they were immature, maybe they aren't that smart, maybe they were brash, but at the end of the day these things are pretty ethereal and what matters is who they support and why.
I noticed christ-coms seem to be the most Zig Forumsish leftists on here.
It's always death and murder and enough condemnations to make the westboro baptist church blush. I have a sneaking feeling that the underlying psychological issues that would make someone a Zig Forumslack are found in equal measure in christ-coms. No offense.
Never said they were, however no man is an island. Many leftists in the U.S. come from being democrats first, like it or not the culture of the democrats cross-pollinates with the culture of the left.
I find concern for the multitude of people in the world living in abject poverty can approach a kind of aesthetic fetishism that stagnates political discussion. Yes there are people starving out there, no we don't have much if any of those here in the U.S., you don't need an aesthetically "pure" communism derived from laborers working in coal mines and dressing like victorian industrial workers, you can and should address a multitude of issues people from numerous walks of life deal with. Even if it's something as niche as hobbies and sub-cultures. There's no harm in it.