Yes I know that fascism measurehead is a playable ideology in Disco Elysium, but presenting fascism as with its integral ugly reality, glaring contradictions, and unsustainable death drive is a pretty leftist (and correct) way of portraying it. de-encyclopedia

  • punk_punk [none/use name]
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    102 years ago

    I watched somebody beat up and assault the NPCs randomly, solve everything with violence and superpowers and have no consequences in Starfield. Does that count in some way?

    • UlyssesT [he/him]OP
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      2 years ago

      I won’t say there’s a direct correlation (especially because some people can be especially prickly about even suggesting entertainment can normalize attitudes and beliefs and from there influence behavior), but even from the other way around (where perhaps they were already like that and just found a niche to indulge their little fantasies without consequence) I haven’t known anyone who could roam around for hours at a time in a GTA game while ignoring actual game objectives in favor of “sandboxing” the act of running over pedestrians and murdering prostitutes while chuckling insatiably, that didn’t turn out to be a massive fucking chud.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        22 years ago

        I did when I was a teenager in 4, but I think that was in large part because there is very little to do in the “open world” except that.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]OP
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          122 years ago

          I can see that as a sort of curiousity’s sake thing. I’ve done rampage runs through some vaguely sandbox games myself. I don’t return to such rampages and drag them out with endless fascination like some kind of chuddy people I knew, though.

          • punk_punk [none/use name]
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            32 years ago

            yeah for sure. I think my way of appreciating vidya has also changed. I like building way more than destroying or conquering/controling. (PatSoc moment)

        • punk_punk [none/use name]
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          72 years ago

          BTW, there are NO consequences but a line about how it didnt have to be like this for going guns blazing into what is a massive private collection of humanity’s spacefaring history and decking everything with grenades. The exhibits wont even be damaged lmao, not to mention the dozens of dead