I don't really expect them to constrain the devs' creative vision at all honestly.
The original Disco Elysium wasn't THAT radical at all. Yeah it introduced people to some political concepts in way more detail than your average videogame but at then end of the day in of itself the game wasn't really a threat to the current political order in any meaningful way. Yeah maybe it got the ball rolling in the slightly more right direction but they don't really care about that, to the capitalists the slight resurgence of communist thought is just another trend. And honestly they'd be right for the most part, at least as it stands right now.
The only way I can see them doing outright censorship is if a piece of media explicitly tries to say "capitalism is a fuck, it's completely unfixable and we should absolutely do a communist revolution right now right here today in real life in the actual real United States", which is currently none of them.
The original Disco Elysium wasn’t THAT radical at all
DE is subtle enough for me to have seen dozens of chuds who were 100% sure the game is a critique of communism or that its message is "politics are stupid and you should not take sides"
Which is why I think this kind of subversive media should be way more on the nose these days, otherwise a good chunk of libs and chuds alike will invent their own interpretation so they don't actually have to do any introspection.
If shit like "Don't Look Up" completely flies over people's heads you really don't have a choice but to hammer the point in very very explicitly. Currently nobody is doing this.
The most infuriating example to me is the brazilian movie Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad). If you haven't watched it, do so, it's a great movie.
Its critique of the war on drugs is about as obvious as you can get without spelling out "war on drugs = bad".
The main character is a high-ranking policeman who cannot have a regular human interaction, he's so deep into the "war" mentality that he can't see any person he interacts with as a human being... yet brazilians consider him a hero. When he's foaming at the mouth torturing a drug addict, they applaud. When he barely holds himself back from slapping his wife, they yell "yeah! that bitch!"
I've seen people saying the director didn't understand the movie when he came out and complained about people misinterpreting the message
I don't really expect them to constrain the devs' creative vision at all honestly.
The original Disco Elysium wasn't THAT radical at all. Yeah it introduced people to some political concepts in way more detail than your average videogame but at then end of the day in of itself the game wasn't really a threat to the current political order in any meaningful way. Yeah maybe it got the ball rolling in the slightly more right direction but they don't really care about that, to the capitalists the slight resurgence of communist thought is just another trend. And honestly they'd be right for the most part, at least as it stands right now.
The only way I can see them doing outright censorship is if a piece of media explicitly tries to say "capitalism is a fuck, it's completely unfixable and we should absolutely do a communist revolution right now right here today in real life in the actual real United States", which is currently none of them.
DE is subtle enough for me to have seen dozens of chuds who were 100% sure the game is a critique of communism or that its message is "politics are stupid and you should not take sides"
chuds could read the communist manifesto and think it was a critique of communism, they don't do rational political thought
Which is why I think this kind of subversive media should be way more on the nose these days, otherwise a good chunk of libs and chuds alike will invent their own interpretation so they don't actually have to do any introspection.
If shit like "Don't Look Up" completely flies over people's heads you really don't have a choice but to hammer the point in very very explicitly. Currently nobody is doing this.
The most infuriating example to me is the brazilian movie Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad). If you haven't watched it, do so, it's a great movie.
Its critique of the war on drugs is about as obvious as you can get without spelling out "war on drugs = bad".
The main character is a high-ranking policeman who cannot have a regular human interaction, he's so deep into the "war" mentality that he can't see any person he interacts with as a human being... yet brazilians consider him a hero. When he's foaming at the mouth torturing a drug addict, they applaud. When he barely holds himself back from slapping his wife, they yell "yeah! that bitch!"
I've seen people saying the director didn't understand the movie when he came out and complained about people misinterpreting the message
Good point