Really, ya think? Did anybody not immediately think “Von Trier” when Bjork mentioned a Dutch filmmaker? It seemed like it was supposed to be pretty obvious.

My question is this: why would anyone even participate in Twitter for a minute? It’s so obviously one of society’s major waystations to hell.

Aggregate Twitter Response Journalism has replaced and vastly surpassed Studies Show Journalism as the laziest and most damaging trend in modern reporting.

What I see here is a guy who actively engaged in Twitter’s toxicity, was punished (several times) by Twitter for doing so, and has now decided to stop using Twitter. So the punishments worked, then.

They replied because they were hearing muttering in the gaming audience about it, and they implicitly refer to problems that employees who left might have had with the company’s long-winded iterative development and revision process.

I think you think I’m arguing for something that I not.

You don’t seriously believe that lynchings were about women’s rights (rather than white supremacy, and protecting women as property of the white race) do you?

You get to say you don’t like the game any time you want. You don’t, however, get to claim knowledge that it’s “atrocious in every aspect” if you didn’t play through it in its entirety. It’s the difference between getting to be a regular Ol’ Joe with a random opinion, and getting to be somebody who can claim…

It’s not a bogeyman. Consider for a moment that the mere allegation that a black man looked sideways at a white woman was, at one point, enough to get his liberty and/or life snatched away from him. This is a slippery slope, even if it’s become fashionable to believe that such things don’t exist.

Leaning into current events to sell a video game is less than toothless. Again, if they were leaning in to channel people down actual paths of meaningful resistance, that would be a different thing altogether.

Yeah, the guy who invented the GIF pronounces it “jiff.” I guess he wouldn’t know any better.

And I think what you’re getting at is it’s tacky to use politics to sell games. I don’t agree, but I can see your point.

I’m pretty sure this is neither propaganda or a shameless exploitation of anti-nazi sentiment. I’m 99% sure this ad, aside from the purpose of selling a game, is actually intended as a juvenile middle finger to the deplorables baby rage against Nazis being used as video game villains.

So you can make a game about killing Nazis but not advertise that the game is about killing Nazis?

The two are inseparable. The marketing wouldn’t change much if Trump wasn’t president.

So it’s only okay to digitally shoot Nazis when they’re not a real threat?

Eh that goes back to the fact that Wolfenstein has long time been a series about punching and shooting Nazis.

This is a reminder to buy a video game whose sole message is, “Fuck Nazis.” That is valuable right now.

Neither was comic books, but that’s how propaganda works.

It’s probably wrong to cash in on an old wound but then again I think the world needs those reminders that what was fought back then was pure evil and it’s best not to let it come back.