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You kids don't remember, but back then there was no politics in vidja gams.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 75 points 1 day ago (14 children)

"I was in my mid-20s, so I definitely wasn't thinking on that level," said Deus Ex designer (and later Dishonored lead technical designer) Ricardo Bare. Instead, he was just excited to be working on Deus Ex: "It was more like 'I really like shooters, I really like RPGs, Oh my God, somebody's combining these and I get to work on one!'"

So they were copying the cooooool scifi themeeees that they had seen which were written by people who were being political, unintentionally resulting in their game being political because it was just copying all the other scifi of the period.

I can believe that.

[–] VibeCoder@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Same thing the Duffer Brothers did with 80’s films to recreate red scare propaganda in Stranger Things

[–] hexaglycogen@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

go in expecting a deconstruction of red scare propaganda from a modern lens

leave with more anticommunist slop

[–] nasezero@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They didn't get nearly enough shit for filming a "gulag" in a literal former Nazi prison camp. And then they tried renting it out as a Stranger Things-themed Airbnb. Fucking ghouls.

It's no surprise that the kid who plays Will grew up into a gross zionist. I'm extremely sus of that whole production and everyone involved.

Edit: How could I forget this asshole (cw: extremely cringe zionist). Someone needs to check what they're putting in the water on this show's set hitler-detector

[–] VibeCoder@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There’s something approaching a comical parody when the Soviet spy becomes pro capitalism because he went to a carnival

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