I’m gonna need some wacky red circles and a youtube channel to see it, personally. 

I think that’s absolutely a fascinating discussion to have.
The “branding hellscape” aspect of media aimed at children is a long discussed reality in pop culture.

Gotta get those little ankle biters into rank consumerism somehow!

*deeper sigh*

When someone on the right sighs about “Identity politics” they are literally upset because their identity isn’t the center of the conversation.

The term “identity politics” is one of the most ridiculous examples of RW media successfully using language to paint its opponents with its own problems.

In…

Correct. Liberals looking at this like “aha! This is the end of the GOP” sure do learn slowly how effective fearmongering is at reforming the GOP base when it comes to voting time. 

I can feel the “it’s just a game, bro” from a mile away. 

Same, but PS5.

It looks pretty (most of the time) and the systems are there, but there’s so much jank. It clearly needs more development space. 

Really dig this discussion. James Baldwin’s conception of white fear / white supremacy as a cancer that eats the souls of white folks looms large for me.

To that effect, I also really really dig the language, “we have the symptoms, but we don’t have the disease.”

I totally agree.

Spec Ops was interesting in its goal and disappointing in its methods of selling it’s message (your example come to mind).

You want a truly challenging narrative, maybe Vietnam has the historical distance.

Drop a paratrooper into a province in Vietnam. Observe atrocities. Lose your weapons. Have your…

A very good counterpoint.

Spec Ops was a wholly unique game that played with the concept of player complicity and outcome for player violence.

I’d place Spec Ops in the same class of game as The Stanley Parable or Bioshock for shifting the player’s “fun” away from game mechanics and onto self-awareness of actions and…

While I am all for video games as art, and I think parsing conflict through fiction is important, making a “shooter” to show “war is hell” is suspect as hell.

I’d love for “Just Following Orders” to be a dead defense post-Nuremburg.

But this is America. The land of Abu Ghraib where “Most soldiers only received minor sentences. Three other soldiers were either cleared of charges or were not charged. No one was convicted for the murders of the detainees.”

The US “Justice”…

Hey, not really the time or the place, my dude.

I’m also from the North (White Dude Here).

We brought you The Nadir of American Race Relations, A whole crop of KKK members, The concept of Eugenics, a host of Sundown Towns, and the reality of Northern Racism as it’s own separate entity entirely to Southern Racism…

I, for one, thought that Shepherd’s meteoric rise to political power through yellow journalism, using mass communication and cheap populism was a bit too real considering the last four years.

In all seriousness, Citizen Kane as a parallel to Trump is Spooky AF.

I’ve been thinking about this recently.

Money = Power, truly, and at that level you can speak into being a huge rush on money, and knowing that, you can buy in before your own produced bump to allocate more power.

It’s a wonderfully transparent example of more complex systems of gaming the market that have been…

My biggest concern about this is the potential for more community spread or more interaction due to reduced symptoms.

We already know that asymptomatic spread is a clear means of transportation for the virus, so this will mean a lot of people who “feel” fine walking around with potentially higher viral loads in their…

Total agreement, and well said. 

Define, “rip them off.”

Source - All the developers trying to determine how much of this concept they can use without a copyright suit

Far Cry 5 comes to mind.

Because the Right isn’t held the same standard as the Left.

Because the Left is necessarily, from a root stance, opposed to the mechanisms that run a lot of the power structures in the US. 

The Weathermen show up only as a straw man for this specific kind of argument these days.

The Radical Left in the United States are ALWAYS more effectively dealt with than the Radical Right, because the Left is antithetical to the machinery of the state in the US (Capitalism, Authoritarianism, non-direct democracy,…