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Yes I know that fascism measurehead is a playable ideology in Disco Elysium, but presenting fascism as with its integral ugly reality, glaring contradictions, and unsustainable death drive is a pretty leftist (and correct) way of portraying it. de-encyclopedia

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I mean you kind of answered the question, DE does it best because it does it ugly.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Chuds don't want fascism ugly in a way that embarrasses them, though.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Chuds don't want fascism ugly in a way that embarrasses them, though.

They're literally too stupid to tell though, that's why they think Judge Dredd, WH40k and Starship Troopers argues in their favor.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Resistance Records' Ethnic Cleansing, White Law, and ZOG's Nightmare

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Domina?

Also, Mario incorporates monarchism apology, damsel in distress tropes, anti-italian-action, and animal abuse. Make of that what you will.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Now that you mention it, the Zelda franchise is full of inherited destiny ideology, monarchist divine command theory, and is locked in inescapable cycles where nothing can really change or move on sociopolitically, just collapse in on itself and repeat. Also the hero must be a boy and the damsel in distress must be a girl because a game from the 90s said so. Forever.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ahem

https://hexbear.net/comment/4047117

link is a simp for the monarchy just like that labor aristocrat mario. we need a true anti-imperialist game starring the gerudo hunk ganondorf and his lesbian moms koume and kotake

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

But there are playable political people in it! frothingfash us-foreign-policy

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I remember this only from the ChipCheezum Let's Play lol

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I think that's a contender! scared-fash

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Rome: Total War. Really any game thats about taking over the world, but Rome specifically is meaningful to chuds

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

The ones that were made by the literal CIA

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

the entire CoD Modern Warfare franchise

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Bioshock 1-3 maybe, especially 2 which is explicitly anticommunist. They're explicitly political games with some RPG aspects so they kinda' match Disco Elysium's genre.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

those games are kind of all over the place politically and don't reach any meaningful conclusions. They exemplify the liberal "both sides" mentality though, absolutely. They're good if you want to explore that angle, because I don't even know if it's by design, but Ken Levine is very clearly what MLK Jr. referred to as a white moderate. They're kind of like the ultimate liberal games, where you're supposed to draw no conclusions other than feel bad and believe all political motivation is incorrect.

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"" - MLK Jr, letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963

Bioshock Infinite is this explicitly, where the negative peace of Columbia's typical existence is presented as superior than the violent revolution waged by the Vox Populi. The game condemns both sides, but condemns the leftist side harder.

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