Political Memes

Fallout: The solution for the energy crisis is being held back by higher ups for pRoFiTs. WW3 goes hot. Everything gets nuked.

Horizon Zero Dawn: Dumbass techbro is responsible for killing everything on the planet down to the last microbe. Continues with a cultural genocide by deleting all of recorded history in the bunkers. Because he can and he is a dumbass.

Bioshock: A super capitalists wet dream goes plopp. Killing a shit ton of innocent people. (Possibly starting a nuclear war)

Oddworld: Unhinged capitalism destroying nature and enslaving the worlds inhabitants.

Cookie Clicker: Monopoly on cookies turn the whole universe (and possibly every other universe) into cookie matter. Everybody plays along because cookies taste nice.

Please tell me more about how politics in video games ruin video games.

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Factorio: Uncaring, industrial alien crash lands on planet. Starts terraforming it, plunders its resources, poisons its earth, water and sky. Slaughters every kind of resistance from the planets natives.

Jokes on you, inmay favorite Final Fantasy you're a mercenary trying to prevent an evil witch from the future from destroying time itself.

You're literally terrorists.

Some people have no media literacy, especially when it comes to media they consume for fun.

Is this what actually happens in FF7? I stoped playing jrpgs after the snes/genesis era.

Thing is: People used to just do this kind of stuff, thus normalizing it. These days, every fucking marketing department will drum up all the "hype" it can muster because LoOk At Us AnD hOw PrOgReSsIvE wE aRe! We DaRe To ShOw WhAt ShOuLd Be JuSt NoRmAl PeOpLe! We EvEn HaVe OnE oF tHeM hOmOsExUaLs AnD a WoMaN!

Yeah, congrats. I'm not complaining that we get female lead roles or homosexual romances or trans people or anything. I'm complaining that having those becomes the sole talking point about whatever medium they are in, and I'm complaining that while boasting how things have female leading roles, those female leading roles are written exactly like the dumbest male leading roles but with a woman portraying it. Think about it. The equivalent to Rey in Star Wars would be something along the lines of Silvester Stallone wielding 2 M-60-Machine guns while simultaneously mowing down nondescript Asian people in a nondescript and defintely not Vietnamese Jungle... Can I have lead female roles where the women are granted the right to be real fucking people for once?! You know... like women in real life who - and this has been scientifically proven - are real people?!

... That's not how Final Fantasy IX happened at all...

Jokes on you, in my favorit final fantasy game you fight the remnants of an old post scarcity society that made a small upsido that nearly destroyed all life in the universe.

My favorite FF is a hallucination after you get stabbed with magic because you tried to overthrow the government. But it has a children's card game!

... now if only you left off Final Fantasy and Shinra...

This could be so many JRPGs. Including other Final Fantasies... 6 is damn close too. And the superior of all the Final Fantasies...

6, 9, 13-2. Fight me.

That's weird cause what I remember is a lot of dress spheres.

Which one is this? I've only played Tactics on GBA and FF3 on the DS but your version sounds awesome

Many of these story lines in movies and games still work as propaganda that functions "pro corporation":

A lot of the problems and evil is caused by rules of the system that create emergent behavior. E.g. the rules of capitalism create greedy corporations and lobbying to subvert democracy and funding to create and spread ideology to justify all this.

But a good story needs a villain not some abstract concept with complex problems and solutions. So even "politically critical" stories focus on some corrupt politician or senator or rogue government agency. Once they are defeated or unmasked the good newspapers and governments fix the problem. But that is really a fantasy.

This is more prevalent for movies since games mostly have post-apocalypse settings. But it's still a focus on individual evil instead of the soft unfathomable evil of systems and rules creating evil or ineffective institutions.

Final Fantasy 6 also has the same type of plotline except instead of an evil corporation it's an evil empire and sociopathic clown (Kefka). This game was released on the SNES btw with Chrono Trigger. Do I dare mention Final Fantasy 9? Btw before people ask FF6 was my childhood and I loved that game that's how I know it from the inside out

Woke was never a new concept, it's just a new word that people use so they don't have to admit those aspects of themselves they can't really defend and don't want to admit. It's basically a misdirection tactic to shift the discussion back onto their critics without admitting the problem they really have with something.