I can think of some obvious examples to start with, but my subtle but insidious nominee is Fable III. Fittingly for a pretentious grifter like Molyneux, the game requires you to raise a specific amount of gold or your kingdom is destroyed and you get a bad ending. The goalposts are moved by the game if you raise money in ways it doesn't approve of, and it is simply impossible to reach the fundraising goal in any way that isn't at least Enlightened Centrist levels of evil, the kind that lanyard-wearing neoliberals giggle about. That's right, you need to be at least this evil or your kingdom is destroyed. So deep and really makes you think about the hard decisions that are made by the ruling class, doesn't it? :zizek:

  • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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    3 years ago

    And the downside to the explicitly communist/syndicalist faction is “bad at science because me don’t tolerate free thought” is also very liberal.

    I think it's more because they're dumb blue collar factory workers, which is of course also very liberal.