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How Sierra On-Line and a Disgraced Cop Made the Most Reactionary Game of the 90s (www.vice.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

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The article states that Sonny "grooms" Marie to be a housewife but she's clearly written to want to be. There's a difference between "look, these games are gross because you the player/player character coerce some poor girl into slaving away at home cooking and cleaning and raising kids for you" and "look, these games are gross because the writers made a character wanna be a tradwife with a job."

I had other stuff written but apparently didn't post any of that. Bleh. Tired now, not gonna agree (nor stop getting silently downvoted, gotta love that) anyway. Off I go ö/