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[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 61 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Imagine thinking New Vegas is friendly to the far right.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 47 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I think MGRR is weirder. I can at least see how Caesar might fool someone into thinking he's not a criticism of their ideology (helps that I have a close friend who's leftist but thinks Caesar is preferable to the NCR an House).

But I can't IMAGINE looking at fucking Senator Armstrong being like "literally me" and not realizing he's a parody of your shitty ideology.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

lol thinking any Metal Gear is friendly to the far right...

Basically a case study in how parody from the left must be cartoonish and expository lest it be misinterpreted by mainstream Westerners.

[–] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But MGR:R's parody IS cartoonish and expository

made-it-the-fuck-up

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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

so-true Liberty Prime

Wait, that was Fallout 3. All the 3D Fallouts might as well be the same game to me.

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[–] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 55 points 11 months ago

A bunch of comments going "buddy you might be trans." Beyond the fallout nv meme like most of the things on this list either focused on girls, allow you to play as a girl or are games where you can basically ignore the protagonists gender. This would also explain the lack of The Witcher from someone with a polish flag in bio. trans-egg

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 44 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cyberpunk where you can make a female masculine voice character or a male feminine voice charecter have straight, gay, and bisexual relations is a...... pooh-wtf far right typed game.

[–] danisth@hexbear.net 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The cyberpunk genre is pretty clearly a criticism of capitalism, but the main story in the game is basically a libertarians response to that, so they’re not totally off the mark.

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[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 43 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Don't know most of these but: aren't Dark Souls, FO:NV, and MG:R stereotypical eggy transfemme games?

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 39 points 11 months ago

A ton of people in the replies were telling them they might be trans lol.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Chuds liking fallout is proof no amount of subtext is enough for some people. You have to explicitly bash people over the head with your intended message if you dont want people to interpret it as exactly the opposite.

[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fallout 3 has a 100 foot tall robot made by the US government that shoots lasers out of its eyes while screaming "I hate communism". A group of rogue soldiers with a technology fetish managed to take over this robot in a dramatic scene where said 100 foot tall robot stomps through the streets of the nuclear blasted ruins of Washington D.C. fighting off the remains of the federal government. Chuds unironically love liberty prime anyway. There is no bashing over the heads blatant enough for these people

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[–] CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

plus MG:R pretty explicitly has the protagonist fighting against the US government and global imperialism. The first mission is trying to prevent a left of center African head of state from being assassinated!

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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 40 points 11 months ago (12 children)

jesse-wtf Why these games?

Also, what is up with Polish people?

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 11 months ago (2 children)

All Polish people born after 1989 know is nationalism, catholicism, free-marketism and lie

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Poland is a state of mind.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Smh i can't even post the only cool Poland flag because it was the same as current.

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[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately, a lot of us have extra strong brainworms. Nationalism + dogmatic free-market liberalism.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

Family values

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[–] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was about to post something about media illiteracy, but on second thought it looks like a dumb attempt to claim some relatively innocuous pieces of media.

Like, no way in hell can anyone claim that MGR:R’s politics is right leaning

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They just think Armstrong was actually the good guy. No I'm not kidding.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago

far-rightcore

EVERYTHING IS JUST AESTHETICS

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 36 points 11 months ago

so-true by playing more hecking DARK SOVLS, my fellow CHVDS, we will RESVRRECT the IMPERIVM smuglord

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I must be a closet far right i guess

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My favorite thing on here isnt even one of the games, its Kaguya-sama

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 11 months ago (3 children)

lol i also love it, fail to see how it is far-right tho

[–] LeZero@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago

"I'm far right and I like it, therefore it is far right"

The thought process

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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

lol, they're Polish and didn't even put Witcherino Tres on their list. Is Geraldo too woke now?

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 11 months ago

He is so masculine that it makes it gay.

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[–] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago (9 children)

To a certain extent this is true, but less so a political ideology and more "Isolated person who is terminally online" which happens to have a 1-1 overlap with both communists and fascists.

Let's be honest, well-adjusted people are not playing HellTaker and DDLC despite them being very good games. Most people play FO:NV once or twice and think it's pretty good. They don't install 500+ mods to try to escape from the meaninglessness of existing in a society in which you can neither influence nor find comfort in. It's just an unfortunate shared characteristic between us the far-right wing.

If most people on Hexbear had a safe existence, happy childhood, and meaningful social life then they would not be here.

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago

I had all of these things, I just have a lot of free time at my email job.

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[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think any of these games, except maybe EUIV, are in any way pro-fascist.

Though it's not like fascists would ever put in the effort to really make their own video games, that takes time, effort, skill and creativity, and if they had those they probably wouldn't be fascists.

[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 11 months ago

EUIV is just pro colonialism and imperialism, no fascism there. Thats HOI IV /s

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I hated the secret Helltaker ending where Malina became an Aleksandr Dugin supporter smh my head

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago

Persona 5The villain of most of the game is a fascist strongman (and his closest supporters - explicitly portrayed as a collection of rich and powerful people) who schemes his way to power and gains support through a "We're gonna make Japan strong" plattform.

Shin Megami Tensei and Persona often have stinky politics, especially P4 and SMT IV, but P5 is definitely among the better ones, even if the ending to the vanilla plot is kinda meh.

[–] bazingabrain@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago

this is peak diegetic essentialism lmao.

[–] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

i played half of these, i can safely say they have nothing to do with rightwankery, lmao

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Surprised they went for EU4 over HOI.

Edit: Oh, I see they're Polish.

[–] Timberknave@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If this Xheet is bait, it's the level of bait where you smear shit in your face and go "made you angry" when other people react in any way

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[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I only know two of the things on here

one of them is an allegory for the environmental destruction wrought by the petroleum industry

and the other is Dark Souls, which is so open to interpretation it's practically a free space

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[–] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago
[–] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

We will own the left and produce racial purity by checks notes completing simple puzzles and thirsting over .pngs of women in suits.

Helltaker is honestly less political than tetris, you do not play for ideological reasons, you play it because you're a horny idiot. I know because I'm a horny idiot.

[–] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Lmao I saw a similar list back in September

CW: transphobic language

https://nitter.net/duckyle2nd/status/1695072313123721695

Edit: put the cw

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pretending to enjoy the Dead or Alive volleyball games to own the libs.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

"It has sexualized women in it, therefor it is conservative." Seems almost contradictory? I know chuds love sexualized women in games but dont they also want tradwives that cover up? They're so inconsistent about this.

Also Ive actually heard the lastest DOA Extreme is actually kind of a fun game when you focus on just the volleyball lol.

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

Is this person being an idiot as a bit? One person there points out that Warhammer is a parody of conservative ideology. This guy responds "how? I'm not a demon, alien, or a fascist."

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