Tonight We Riot. Hoooo boy...
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I've lost all interest in videogames, but between Mao's Legacy and your stellar advertisement of this game, I may reconsider.
As for your second point, that can be arranged.
I was thinking more a bullet to the head or thrown out of a helicopter with a noose around my neck, but we all give what we can, I guess.
I can't tell if he's serious or not.
This is either some next level self-immolation or next level irony, I CAN'T TELL ANYMORE
Yeah but let's not talk about that or the fact that the Disco Elysium devs outright thanked Marx & Engels when they won an award, that would make people uncomfortable.
For people who support mass murderers and genocidal regimes, no, it's not.
And as for the Disco Elysium devs, they should get the helicopter treatment too.
Man, you're cuh-ray-zee.
No seriously, if a videogame being about a revolution upsets you this much you should talk to an expert. I fear for what would happen if you accidentally had to go see Les Miserables.
I can't believe that people care about this. It's just another video game that will be popular for like a week or so and then forgotten. Chill the fuck out.
So you show your dislike for a mass murdering regime by calling for what another mass murdering regime did. The moral dissonance is astounding!
I mean, they got upset over someone thanking Marx & Engels, I forgot about how many billions they killed when Marx wrote Critique of the Gotha Programme and when Engels finished Anti-Duhring. I think on that Basis we can blame the English for mercantilism and consequently every death attributed to the exploitation of resources and accumulation of capital.
There's something of a difference, though: this is a well-known stereotype and slur, used against that specific demographic for decades. That's the context.
The game makers have used a stereotype based on identity for a cheap joke. That's fair ground for criticism: if you choose to use stereotypes, you can be criticised for that choice.
Reminds me of the controversy when a game called "Hatred" was released.
So many people got upset that you do nothing but be a mass shooter. Yet no one seemed to bat an eye when you can do the same thing in GTA V. I used to think the same, but then I asked myself "Is this game that important to get upset over?"
And just like that, my motto became "It's just a game, so who gives a shit?" and tried the game; The game itself is pretty mediocre and repetitive
So many people got upset that you do nothing but be a mass shooter. Yet no one seemed to bat an eye when you can do the same thing in GTA V. I used to think the same, but then I asked myself "Is this game that important to get upset over?"
And just like that, my motto became "It's just a game, so who gives a shit?" and tried the game; The game itself is pretty mediocre and repetitive
Sure, but the criticism when one does this is about them being cheesy or old fashioned or cliche. Not being homophobic or pro pedophilia or whatever other insane thing was leveled at them.
Though you do end up fighting rich guys who turn office buildings onto mecha. so it's still a bit on the ridiculous side at times.
The difference is that in Hatred, mass murder was the aim of the game. In GTA, it was something you COULD do, but it was never stated to be the aim in the same way. I'm not aware of any GTA mission where the goal is to simply kill as many people as possible in a given amount of time.
They quoted Marx and Engels, that's not the same as supporting mass murderers. I'm not aware of anything in either of their works that call for stuff like the Gulag Archipelogo or the Great Leap Forward.
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Actually there was one mission in GTA San Andraus that had the objective of "KILL ALL THE HAITIANS!!" and that ended up being changed to "gangsters" in later releases. In early GTA games there were also the massacre side missions where the objective was to just kill as many people as you could.