No it's not. Games are either realist or irrealist. Both are political. I've never seen a game that was neither.
exocrinous
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My ego? I don't have much of an ego, I'm just a regular drone. If you think I'm important though thanks
I don't. I literally just said the opposite. I said people have no idea what the word means, and then you asked why I expect people to have a shared understanding of the word. Those are opposites. If people don't know what a word means, then they can't have a shared understanding. This should be obvious to you, pay attention.
You're telling a very blatant and easily disproven lie. You're currently claiming you didn't consider me more than surface level. But earlier, you claimed that you knew that I was hiding my motivations for choosing my diet.
Oh, you don't like the real world? That's a political ideology, it's called soulism. Look it up, it might appeal to you, since it sounds like you're already a soulist.
Politics doesn't have anything to do with the amount of effort it takes to play a game. You're confusing two vastly different concepts. Ultimately what you are saying is that you want a game devoid of meaning, which you feel no obligation to understand or judge. That's not politics, but it is interesting, because I have typically only heard the assertion that art should not have meaning from gamers and nazis.
Okay, so that's not actually using a definition, that's what I like to call "vibes based meanings", which are largely useless and serve only to reveal that most people have no idea what the word political means and just use vibes.
Oh, we're backing away from the social utility theory and back into the argument that words have meanings, but now with a descriptivism argument? Okay, sure. I can't tell what you mean by overt, the game manual for Super Mario explains the whole political situation, I don't see how Mario could be more overt. So I'll assume you just mean direct (as in directed toward the player) and intentional, unless you can define overtness. In that case, whether a game is political or non-political depends entirely on the internal thoughts and feelings of the developers, not on the actual content of the game. I think the only way you could ever be sure a game was political is if the developers gave a press release stating the game is political. Otherwise I'm gonna go the skeptic's route and say all games that don't have developer statements of politics are non-political. According to your definition of politics, of course, which I don't generally agree with. But in terms of prescriptivism, 90% of the games people complain about politics can't be proven political. For example I would not be convinced Metal Gear is political at all until I saw an interview where Kojima directly stated he intended to change people's minds about politics. For all we know he's just a big philosophy nerd who wanted to ask a lot of cool questions in Metal Gear because he likes philosophical themes. That seems pretty on brand for him. So I'm gonna go ahead and deny that Metal Gear is political according to the common lexicon.
If I'm an idiot, then why don't you show me an example of wanting a non-political game for non-racist reasons?
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