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Pretty interesting read.
You do not gotta hand it to MiHoYo
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This makes SO MUCH more sense from what I have heard of his interactions with others and his critics. Fucking human filth, and fuck anybody who defends his ***** ass and his shitty writing.Neil Druckmann can't create anything beautiful, so relies on shock value and ugliness. His nihilistic artistic choices made more sense after I learned that he's a Zionist. I didn't read the whole article, because I was more interested in what Druckmann actually said than in the writer's opinion. Only reason people didn't read more into what he said and it didn't get him in hot water is because Israel had not yet drawn so much attention by killing so many in such a short period of time.
The Not So Hidden Israeli Politics of 'The Last of Us Part II'
'The Last of Us Part II' presents what at first seems like an evenhanded point of view, but perpetuates the very cycles of violence it's supposedly so troubled by.www.vice.com
It's not a "cycle of violence," it's all on Israel, and releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners whose land they violently stole for one Israeli should not have been morally difficult. Israel are the instigators, THEY created the nation through seventy years of brutal colonization, "mowing the grass" every now and then. Palestinians have the right to defend themselves. Therefore, Druckmann can't even claim anger for the two Israeli soldiers killed in 2000.
That he ever was so angry tells us which side he is on.
Also...
Israel doesn't give a damn about the means to the ends. No one takes greater joy in shooting kids in the head.
Ugly games from an ugly mind. A mind programmed from childhood to dehumanize the other might design a character as disgusting as Abby (Like the little survivor society is really gonna ration so much food and drugs for her psychotic, self-centered body obsession. Laughable.) and might think Ellie's completely pointless revenge (a mountain of bodies for one person) deserved sympathy. He would believe that a person, any of us, would kill so many and risk their own life so many times for a dead parent. If it had been her child, it would at least make some biological sense. Still pretty evil, though. Still pretty ridiculous when you think of all the times Ellie dies or can die. A world with grim realism like The Last of Us needs better motivation. As she was stabbed and sliced by the emaciated Abby dozens of times in that final battle, after everything that had happened, I thought it was all so stupid.
I'm no defender of Israel's current actions but this whole screed is like a parody of naive teenagers yelling about stuff. And then transferring [feigned?] moral outrage at a for-real brutal political situation toward hysterical critique of a video game story is just *chef's kiss* pure internet silly..
I get it. Y'all don't like Last of Us Part 2. But at this point, the real misery porn is this reaction to the game.