I had a friend at school we liked the same things but he went off in the fash direction and i went off in the commie direction.

I went down the Tim Curry to communist pipeline and he went down the "ironic" fascist to actual fash pipeline.

Clearly the anti commie themes were completely lost on me cos i thought it was rad as fuck

  • Kaplya
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    8 months ago

    Sometimes I feel bad for the kids these days who never had a chance to role-play as the Soviet Union in a computer game when they were younger. It was truly an experience, and I don’t even know what games these days can come close to providing an equivalent of that.

    • AfterthoughtC - he/ him@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      For Cuba and South America there is Tropico and for USSR there is Workers and Resources. What would be the simulation game for Laos/ Vietnam/ China/ North Korea/ East Germany/ other socialist projects?

      • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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        8 months ago

        TNO is a laboratory where new kinds of fascism are synthesized

        I wonder what their discord is like lmao

        • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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          8 months ago

          I imagine it’s Destiny fans calling Vaush fans “tankies” because they said they should accept Nazis but not befriend them

    • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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      8 months ago

      I don’t even know what games these days can come close to providing an equivalent of that.

      Hearts of Iron 4 dog-screm

      Alternate history or no history (to the extent that's even possible) is so much better than whatever the fuck HOI4 is

      We need to retvrn to Red Alert

      • Kaplya
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        8 months ago

        Sort of, yes, but that doesn’t come with a janky, campy story complete with live action sequences about how erasing Hitler from history led to the rise of Stalin and his evil plans to dominate the world. It’s not the same lol!