I'm half-convinced by all the points in this thread that say that satire is useless, but then i've seen a bunch of stuff that is not satire also fail horribly, like in FF7 you play as the eco-terrorists against the corporation bleeding the planet dry for money, and nobody bats an eye, so now what? (this is not unique to gaming, pipe down) that isn't even subtext, it's text. if you turn to the camera and go "we are now doing communism, which is good" people will say "oh i get it, this is satirising stalinism, the heroes are actually the bad guys"
seems that up to some point all art is "smug and impotent", what even is the end game? that someone leaves the movie theatre going "yeah i SHOULD start a union"
Yeah I have fun with satire, and stopping all satire isn't going to stop our extremely moneyed fascists from just doing straightforward fascist art. And sometimes satire is the only way to get anti-capitalist or anti-fascist messaging to a wider audience, not because execs are just hoodwinked but because they know it will have wider appeal if the message is too cloaked for total dipshits.
I'm half-convinced by all the points in this thread that say that satire is useless, but then i've seen a bunch of stuff that is not satire also fail horribly, like in FF7 you play as the eco-terrorists against the corporation bleeding the planet dry for money, and nobody bats an eye, so now what? (this is not unique to gaming, pipe down) that isn't even subtext, it's text. if you turn to the camera and go "we are now doing communism, which is good" people will say "oh i get it, this is satirising stalinism, the heroes are actually the bad guys"
seems that up to some point all art is "smug and impotent", what even is the end game? that someone leaves the movie theatre going "yeah i SHOULD start a union"
Yeah I have fun with satire, and stopping all satire isn't going to stop our extremely moneyed fascists from just doing straightforward fascist art. And sometimes satire is the only way to get anti-capitalist or anti-fascist messaging to a wider audience, not because execs are just hoodwinked but because they know it will have wider appeal if the message is too cloaked for total dipshits.