Well, you can't expect the criticisms being made by Fox to go over well on this site given the massive liberal bias present here.
The point being made here is that the specifics that are being prevented to kids as facts as an early age are issues of major debate within society. Saying that wind and solar power are better/cleaner/more efficient than nuclear power (which is something the left wing has always hated) is a valid example. People are entitled to their opinions, but it's one issue where I personally disagree with the enviromentalists (I'm very pro-nuclear energy), and these games aren't presenting this information in the form of an opinion, as opposed to as a fact. This can be said about a lot of things in video games (and the media in general) where you generally see a very specific morality and world view of issues presented through video games as opposed to balance and multiple perspectives.
This goes too far when you see them talking about these games being played by 5 year olds (there is such a thing as rhetoric overkill), but even for teenagers I have an issue with games pushing things like a purely anti-nuclear agenda as part of the games.
It's one of those cases where if your already left wing and support what the games are saying (your attitude matches) you see the propaganda as being fine, if your on the other side it's a differant situation entirely.
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As far as the jokes about Mario being a Fascist goes... well, there has been a lot said about him being a communist. There is stuff on the internet about it if your really interested, but the basic gist of it is that the guy who created Mario was allegedly recorded in China pimping Nintendo products through their cultural police by saying that Mario was a communist Icon and explaining how the entire game is one giant metaphor. Mario being Italian isn't so much an issue but the style of his Mustache (Stalin), Red wardrobe, the stars, what the flags look like, and other things all playing into it. It's rather complicated, but was a topic of debate at the beginning of the 21st century. The recordings got pulled, Nintendo denies it, and now you see rants about it every once in a while, with people forgetting how it started, and the lack of the initial evidence turning it into something of a video game urban legend.
I point this out not so much because I believe this 100% (though it's uncanny), but simply be because it's amusing that people use Mario as the "go to" for video game innocence so often, when really he's one of the characters most "tainted" by allegedly having a hidden message or agenda behind him.
Granted this isn't an urban gaming legend on the level of "Polybius" but it's a notable one.
I'll also say that when I say I don't 100% believe the story about Mario, I mean that I find it unlikely, but at the same time I wouldn't be shocked to find out it's true with all the imagery and stuff people put into movies and other media. Some of the breakdowns can be pretty... interesting in how they fit together even without the original source... and I mean this in a fashion that is consistant and doesn't involve humorous digging and exagerration. It's like the old saying about how once is luck, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy acion, The more things you can line up without getting totally insane the more likely it becomes that it's not an accident. I'm not sold, find it unlikely at this point, but I wouldn't be surprised, I'm pretty much at the "2" phase with Mario.
The point being made here is that the specifics that are being prevented to kids as facts as an early age are issues of major debate within society. Saying that wind and solar power are better/cleaner/more efficient than nuclear power (which is something the left wing has always hated) is a valid example. People are entitled to their opinions, but it's one issue where I personally disagree with the enviromentalists (I'm very pro-nuclear energy), and these games aren't presenting this information in the form of an opinion, as opposed to as a fact. This can be said about a lot of things in video games (and the media in general) where you generally see a very specific morality and world view of issues presented through video games as opposed to balance and multiple perspectives.
This goes too far when you see them talking about these games being played by 5 year olds (there is such a thing as rhetoric overkill), but even for teenagers I have an issue with games pushing things like a purely anti-nuclear agenda as part of the games.
It's one of those cases where if your already left wing and support what the games are saying (your attitude matches) you see the propaganda as being fine, if your on the other side it's a differant situation entirely.
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As far as the jokes about Mario being a Fascist goes... well, there has been a lot said about him being a communist. There is stuff on the internet about it if your really interested, but the basic gist of it is that the guy who created Mario was allegedly recorded in China pimping Nintendo products through their cultural police by saying that Mario was a communist Icon and explaining how the entire game is one giant metaphor. Mario being Italian isn't so much an issue but the style of his Mustache (Stalin), Red wardrobe, the stars, what the flags look like, and other things all playing into it. It's rather complicated, but was a topic of debate at the beginning of the 21st century. The recordings got pulled, Nintendo denies it, and now you see rants about it every once in a while, with people forgetting how it started, and the lack of the initial evidence turning it into something of a video game urban legend.
I point this out not so much because I believe this 100% (though it's uncanny), but simply be because it's amusing that people use Mario as the "go to" for video game innocence so often, when really he's one of the characters most "tainted" by allegedly having a hidden message or agenda behind him.
Granted this isn't an urban gaming legend on the level of "Polybius" but it's a notable one.
I'll also say that when I say I don't 100% believe the story about Mario, I mean that I find it unlikely, but at the same time I wouldn't be shocked to find out it's true with all the imagery and stuff people put into movies and other media. Some of the breakdowns can be pretty... interesting in how they fit together even without the original source... and I mean this in a fashion that is consistant and doesn't involve humorous digging and exagerration. It's like the old saying about how once is luck, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy acion, The more things you can line up without getting totally insane the more likely it becomes that it's not an accident. I'm not sold, find it unlikely at this point, but I wouldn't be surprised, I'm pretty much at the "2" phase with Mario.
