...start slithering into the games press, feigning "nerd cred" to spread their poisonous, hate-based ideology to a new generation...
The defining game series of the last/current generation is a pro-war right-wing neocon wankfest. Years later, right-wing lunatics...
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...gee, who could've predicted that? Who could've POSSIBLY seen that coming?
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American culture had a chance, however slim, in the fallout of the Iraq/Afghanistan/Bush disasters, to FINALLY accept that...
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...military worship, "peace through firepower," etc were hopelessly dated relics and cast them aside. CALL OF DUTY has likely ruined that.
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This was the generation where video-games' favorite story went from being: "YOU are special and only you can save the world"...
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...to "ONLY militarized, implicitly American superior-firepower can save the world; now call in that airstrike recruit!!!"...
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@the_moviebob I don't want to be the "actually," guy. But while COD certainly fetishizes guns and the military, I'm not sure if calling- -
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@GreyTheTick I have two problems with that. 1. Statistically, NOBODY plays COD for it's story. To most of its customers, its a plotless... -
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@GreyTheTick ...sandbox shooter where the visual trappings of U.S. military aggression are fun playthings - that's more damaging than... -
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@GreyTheTick ...almost any story could be. 2. Being vaguely anti-war doesn't preclude still appealing to the pro-war sensibility... -
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@GreyTheTick ...RAMBO is technically a movie about the U.S. govt screwing over veterans, yet REAGAN quoted it in speeches. -
@the_moviebob and Born in the USA is very much tongue in cheek, but I don't see how you can blame art for people misinterpreting it. -
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@GreyTheTick I don't. I blame the games press for not being more dilligent about it. Maybe take FIVE FUCKING MINUTES away from... -
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@GreyTheTick ...away from counting up the framerates and map textures and spend a paragraph asking if this is what we want to become. - 7 more replies
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@the_moviebob@GreyTheTick not because of violence, but in how the show militarism as a viable and even desirable alternative -
@liberalbastion@the_moviebob I'd tend to agree, but I struggle to see how it's more damaging than, say, film's veneration of gansters. -
@GreyTheTick@the_moviebob well not to be snarky but gangsters don't have a multibillion dollar lobbying arm, military-industrial c does - End of conversation
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