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A place to share and discuss stories from The Onion, Clickhole, and other satire.
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To me the real problem with political games is that a political game, to be enjoyable, has to be more good than political.
Disco Elysium is extremely political. It is also a very well written game. So I enjoyed playing it.
AAA studios tend to make a game with an LGBT character or a minority character and when people don't like it, they blame representation. While people are actually mad at a game being a bad game.
The fact that people are downvoting you for speaking an objective fact is a travesty. Diversity is only as political as the writer chooses to make it, and having characters of different races, genders and orientations without putting in the effort to make them feel three-dimensional will not magically make a badly-written game into a good one.
Maybe they think I'm doing a dog whistle of some sort.
Maybe they are mad because I didn't name AAA games which do that, I found it difficult to name examples because I haven't played any recently.
Or
Hear me out
Or it's fully idiotic that existence of girls that likes girls and shit like that has nothing to do with politics?
Is it possible maybe that the only cognitive mistakes possible that lead to uttering something that stupid, or even engaging in the "debate" about if these people should be allowed to live or not, or exist in video games, is the stupidest possible thing to call "political"
It's not political is just systematic hate, aka fascism, aka so obvious that even the onion has no problem putting out an article like this and everyone understands intuitively who they are making fun of,. and what idea they are making fun of, which happens to be this very fucking stupid ideas uttered
Which we as a society have moved on pretty far away from it, except some very immature people that don't understand that it doesn't count as politics to opress people
if the entire punchline wasn't in the title and the first paragraph this could have been really clever.
I miss the days when satire was subtle and non-political. but when the time is right we will make satire great again.