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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

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[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Slightly less easy answer: I think Postal 2 is the ur-chud game. Even as a teenager the racism, misanthropism and overall edgelord content was way too much for me, and it's all covered in that supposed plausible deniability "Well, it was your choice to do that edgelord shit. The game allows you to play it peacefully" shit that chuds love so much because it's essentially another version of the

"I never said the welfare queens in my story were black. Sounds like you're the real racist here" deflection.

Off topic, but I do think there's an interesting game to be made with the whole "the player chose to do these bad things" narrative mechanic, which you could say Spec Ops: The Line and Undertale did to various degrees. Of course, Postal 2 was never going to be that game since it was made by sophomoric edgelords.

I enjoy Civvie11 videos on Youtube but I can not sit through even his abbreviated playthroughs of that edgelord trash. I don't even try to anymore.

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