Imagine thinking New Vegas is friendly to the far right.
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I think MGRR is weirder. I can at least see how Caesar might fool someone into thinking he's not a criticism of their ideology (helps that I have a close friend who's leftist but thinks Caesar is preferable to the NCR an House).
But I can't IMAGINE looking at fucking Senator Armstrong being like "literally me" and not realizing he's a parody of your shitty ideology.
lol thinking any Metal Gear is friendly to the far right...
Basically a case study in how parody from the left must be cartoonish and expository lest it be misinterpreted by mainstream Westerners.
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Liberty Prime
Wait, that was Fallout 3. All the 3D Fallouts might as well be the same game to me.
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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. 
Cyberpunk where you can make a female masculine voice character or a male feminine voice charecter have straight, gay, and bisexual relations is a...... 
far right typed game.
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.
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Don't know most of these but: aren't Dark Souls, FO:NV, and MG:R stereotypical eggy transfemme games?
A ton of people in the replies were telling them they might be trans lol.
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.
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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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Why these games?
Also, what is up with Polish people?
All Polish people born after 1989 know is nationalism, catholicism, free-marketism and lie
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Poland is a state of mind.
Smh i can't even post the only cool Poland flag because it was the same as current.
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Unfortunately, a lot of us have extra strong brainworms. Nationalism + dogmatic free-market liberalism.
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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
They just think Armstrong was actually the good guy. No I'm not kidding.
I must be a closet far right i guess
My favorite thing on here isnt even one of the games, its Kaguya-sama
lol i also love it, fail to see how it is far-right tho
"I'm far right and I like it, therefore it is far right"
The thought process
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far-rightcore
EVERYTHING IS JUST AESTHETICS
by playing more hecking DARK SOVLS, my fellow CHVDS, we will RESVRRECT the IMPERIVM 
lol, they're Polish and didn't even put Witcherino Tres on their list. Is Geraldo too woke now?
He is so masculine that it makes it gay.
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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.
I had all of these things, I just have a lot of free time at my email job.
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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.
EUIV is just pro colonialism and imperialism, no fascism there. Thats HOI IV /s
I hated the secret Helltaker ending where Malina became an Aleksandr Dugin supporter smh my head
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.
this is peak diegetic essentialism lmao.
i played half of these, i can safely say they have nothing to do with rightwankery, lmao
If this Xheet is bait, it's the level of bait where you smear shit in your face and go "made you angry" when other people react in any way
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Surprised they went for EU4 over HOI.
Edit: Oh, I see they're Polish.
I only know two of the things on here
one of them is an allegory for the environmental destruction wrought by the petroleum industry
and the other is Dark Souls, which is so open to interpretation it's practically a free space
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Lmao I saw a similar list back in September
CW: transphobic language
https://nitter.net/duckyle2nd/status/1695072313123721695
Edit: put the cw
Pretending to enjoy the Dead or Alive volleyball games to own the libs.
"It has sexualized women in it, therefor it is conservative." Seems almost contradictory? I know chuds love sexualized women in games but dont they also want tradwives that cover up? They're so inconsistent about this.
Also Ive actually heard the lastest DOA Extreme is actually kind of a fun game when you focus on just the volleyball lol.
It's consistent if you consider that what they want is ownership and control over the sexuality of women. A real life woman needs to be covered up to deny her any sexual autonomy, but digital waifus that you have 100% control over? They better be as close to naked as possible.
There's a distinction to be made between "sexualized women" and just, like, sexual women I guess. Plenty of women enjoy feeling sexy, being sexually desired and making their sexuality a big part of their identity. That's not a sexualized person, and a fictional character who is like that is not "sexualized".
"Sexualized" means that the sexual aspects were imposed onto a character or person who does not see themselves the same way and does not want to present themselves like that, purely for the gratification of (usually male) onlookers. It's about agency and self-determination.
Chuds hate it when women have agency over their own sexuality, they hate it that women can make money off of onlyfans or bikini streams on twitch, that they can use their sexuality for their own benefit. They hate "promiscuous" women, women with active sex lives and women who like to wear short skirts in public. But only when they can't control it. They love when Andrew Tate pimps out women for his own benefit, they love their harem fantasies and when women are reduced to their sexuality by outside forces. They are very consistent in that regard, actually.
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Is this person being an idiot as a bit? One person there points out that Warhammer is a parody of conservative ideology. This guy responds "how? I'm not a demon, alien, or a fascist."
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We will own the left and produce racial purity by checks notes completing simple puzzles and thirsting over .pngs of women in suits.
Helltaker is honestly less political than tetris, you do not play for ideological reasons, you play it because you're a horny idiot. I know because I'm a horny idiot.
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