• ksynwa_from_lemmygrad [he/him, des/pair]
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    9 months ago

    This person is shitting their pants that fascism is not a viable ideology. Do they sound like someone who does not have a skin in the game to you?

    The entire point of games is to try things you wouldn't normally do…

    What kind of heinous crimes are you simulating in your video games, buddy?

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      so-true logging in to the pedophile simulator because video games are where you try things you normally wouldn't do

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      9 months ago

      What kind of heinous crimes are you simulating in your video games, buddy?

      To be fair I kill cops in videogames all the time but don't currently advocate for it in real life.

    • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]
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      9 months ago

      Ok, but this person's complaint isn't "fascism isn't making me win instantly" it's "I can't even make the country become fascist."

      • ksynwa_from_lemmygrad [he/him, des/pair]
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        9 months ago

        You are decontextualising violence there. I can play a violent video game where I kill Nazis without much problem but I won't play a video game where I am a Nazi soldier fighting for Nazi Germany.

        Even in Issac there is some justification to the whole scenario since the mother is abusive and not to mention the supernatural nature of the universe the game is set in. Would you play a video game where you psychotically beat up your warm, kind, lovely, caring mother for no moral reason? This is not just about trying it out once out of morbid curiosity. But trying it out over and over again and then complaining on an internet forum that the passerbys in the game are not letting you beat your lovely mother senseless.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Isaac isn't committing a crime, he's defending himself from his mother trying to kill him.

        • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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          9 months ago

          Alright, a better example: Minecraft, which doesn't force you to do anything, but it's common for players to enslave villagers and make them work in tiny spaces, steal their crops and sell them back to them, make animal farms where the animals can barely move, etc.

          • CatoPosting [comrade/them, he/him]
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            9 months ago

            How is this a defense? "In this game I can do the totally unnecessary crimes capitalists do in real life, therefore I must." No, you don't have to fucking do it.

    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      9 months ago

      Way back when, I made a device in Dwarf Fortress to burn the nerves off warriors slowly enough they wouldn't die of blood loss, so they would never feel pain in combat.