You know, I was listening to a recent episode of TMK and they had a guest on who was talking about how the games industry is a multi-billion money making machine with a huge impact on popular culture, and yet is a space where the left hasn't made much headway into, even though there's a lot of potential there.
I mean, Disco Elysium, a game that does not hide its left wing sensibilities at all, is currently the best-reviewed game of all time on Metacritic. How can this not mean that there is an ideological void waiting to be filled? If the games industry were not dominated by a handful of multi-billion dollar companies, I'm sure that gaming could have incredible potential as a medium for leftist thought to flourish. Maybe I'm just being too optimistic here.
I thought that episode of TMK was a very interesting and thought-provoking discussion. The guest's name is Marijam Did, and here's a link to it. I'm about to start reading the book that she wrote on this subject.
I mean, Disco Elysium, a game that does not hide its left wing sensibilities at all
A lot of really fucking ignorant treat hogs have already claimed that leftists are stupid for seeing leftism in the subtext because the game doesn't parade communism around as an all-powerful and triumphant ideology.
one of my childhood friends who is super reactionary didn't pick up on the leftist themes at all, and was absolutely shocked when I explained it to him over a beer
idk, I would not be surprised if he had played the fascist route and nothing else in the game
The fascist route goes a lot harder than the communist route; the latter says "you're not going to see communism built (again) in your lifetime and you're a fucking cop but shine on you human disaster diamond" while the former is "this entire ideology is so contradictory and self-destructive that there's no room for anyone to stand in it for long until they're devoured by it."
You know, I was listening to a recent episode of TMK and they had a guest on who was talking about how the games industry is a multi-billion money making machine with a huge impact on popular culture, and yet is a space where the left hasn't made much headway into, even though there's a lot of potential there.
I mean, Disco Elysium, a game that does not hide its left wing sensibilities at all, is currently the best-reviewed game of all time on Metacritic. How can this not mean that there is an ideological void waiting to be filled? If the games industry were not dominated by a handful of multi-billion dollar companies, I'm sure that gaming could have incredible potential as a medium for leftist thought to flourish. Maybe I'm just being too optimistic here.
I thought that episode of TMK was a very interesting and thought-provoking discussion. The guest's name is Marijam Did, and here's a link to it. I'm about to start reading the book that she wrote on this subject.
A lot of really fucking ignorant treat hogs have already claimed that leftists are stupid for seeing leftism in the subtext because the game doesn't parade communism around as an all-powerful and triumphant ideology.
one of my childhood friends who is super reactionary didn't pick up on the leftist themes at all, and was absolutely shocked when I explained it to him over a beer
idk, I would not be surprised if he had played the fascist route and nothing else in the game
The fascist route goes a lot harder than the communist route; the latter says "you're not going to see communism built (again) in your lifetime and you're a fucking cop but shine on you human disaster diamond" while the former is "this entire ideology is so contradictory and self-destructive that there's no room for anyone to stand in it for long until they're devoured by it."