like oh wow ur game about exploring an untouched world where the punchline of every "joke" is that you're being exploited by an unfeeling corporation? man that's so unique that nobody who read that sentence realized I was talking about Journey To The Savage Planet because there's so fucking many of them

You know what I want? Universal jail time for all gamers

But if I'm not gonna get that, I want games that take place in a world we'd want to live in where the objective is to help it remain as such.

If someone pitched to me a GTA game set in a horrible word not worth living in the way they all are, I wouldn't care what city it's set in. It's been done. If someone said, "hey we're gonna make a GTA game except it's set in a nearly post-capitalism world and your objective is to try to protect your city from incursion by the forces of reaction" I'd buy that shit up so fast.

TLDR; why doesn't an inherently reactionary industry just pander to me? :/

  • feeeq [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    In Capitalist Realism, Fisher talks about media doing our anti-capitalism for us. Ever since i read that ive seen it everywhere

    • deshara218 [any]
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      4 years ago

      theyll sell our revolution back to us and fund the people who'll firebomb our houses with the proceeds

      edit: hold up i got something for this https://ibb.co/16NYj6d

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I go between thinking it's intentional, and thinking there's just no way to make good art anything but anticapitalist, because the alternative is so spiritually void.

        • KurdKobein [any]
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          4 years ago

          I mean, your art can focus on things other than economy.

          • SerLava [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah for sure, it was kind of a rushed comment but I guess I meant you can't really make audiences relate to crushing poor people underfoot

          • quartz [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            I think it's probably true in that Bandai Namco is a publicly traded company, owned by the private capital instruments that are owned by those who fund right-wing terrorism. I can't find anything linking it more directly.

            Maybe it's a joke about something that happens in a Gundam series. Like, they give little a Gundam to Operation Gladio as a treat or something, idk I never watched it

    • Meh [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      It's an extension of the co-opting and sanitizing of revolutionary figures. If media puts a pin on the problems of capitalism, with no following directive of how to enact change, it lets people say, "yeah, that's fucked up" and then terminate the line of thinking there.