There’s a difference between being an “irredeemable demon” and “saying you care more about playing a video game than anti-trans bigotry”. The former is hyperbole, the latter is just an observation. If that observation makes the person playing feel bad, that’s a feeling they should work out for themselves.

There’s also…

First, obligatory JKR is a bigot and by playing this game you’re (the general you, not the author here) basically saying you care more about playing a video game than anto-trans bigotry.

Isn’t gaslighting that thing where you hit the gas at the right time during Lakitu’s lights to get the mushroom start?

and in Mario Kart. The game where if you’re doing bad you’ll get a blue shell or lightning, but you’ll never see either of those items if you’re in the top four. 

I’m amused by the whole NATO expansion angle they push. As if someone NATO is forcing people to join an alliance of willing nations. Really if anyone is pushing NATO expansion it’s Putin, I mean for half a century Sweden and Finland prided themselves as neutral and independent nations. Russia invades Ukraine and…

lol neoliberals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_imperialism

COD literally hires Bush era war criminals to work as execs (at ABK). It is identical in that aspect.

I would hope—and to be fair I think most are—people who are critical of Mundfish on this matter are just as critical of Activision for this very reason.

I mean.... they do. They have *some* influence over this game. There are certain political statement that could not be put into the game even if EVERYONE in the developer wanted them there.

Yeah, if that murderer Putin’s government has its bloody fingers on this game, then no dice.

Oooof. I had originally only heard complaints about the in-universe propaganda which was easy enough to let slide as the counterpart to Fallout’s Americana.

But the rest, yeah, that’s pretty fucked.

So, by all accounts, it’s an OK game, kind of a waste of its setting, and the best one can say about the devs is that they’re in an extremely difficult situation and have no good options because the people with the pursestrings are assholes?

Nice try there. I wasn’t comparing the vaccinated versus those that have had COVID and whatever you claim it does to an immune system. I was comparing someone with vaccinations and the unvaccinated (as you initially claimed to be without mentioning having caught COVID before). In case you were wondering, there’s no…

Everything I’ve read about the game makes me think it was made primarily for cringey fan-fic writers. Teen OC with unique special powers? Check. Freedom to so whatever you please no matter how edgy? Double-check. If it wasn’t set a century in the past there’d probably be a way to fuck Draco.

one of the greatest offensive players ever

But is the couple portrayed as predatory because they’re gay or do they just happen to be predatory people ?

There’s every fucking reason! I’m immunocompromised. As are plenty of others. And I am vaxxed. And I GOT Covid19. It sucked but you know what DIDN’T happen? I didn’t die. I didn’t need a ventilator. Your variety of “move along” bullshit is not helpful. I’m not saying that fighting a culture war IS helpful but you’re…

I am sorry you don’t have a counter argument.

I was just saying you keep going on weird embarrassing megalomaniacal monologues which uh. Case in point.