And almost only for the worse.
No. When rapacious capitalist goons pretend to believe in stuff.
Yeah. Say what you want about 90s racist grandpa; the biggest problem he’d see with your gay blue haired ass getting gassed by cops who’re covering an ICE raid is that you let any of them live.
Like, he’d still call every single person on your side a slur, but he’d be doing it while he shouted abuse at you for not killing the nazis.
Sooooort of. I read ‘heart of darkness’ when i was way too young, but ‘apocalypse now’ and ‘spec ops: the line’, while similar, are clearly biting at different targets.
Where the central theme of ‘apocalypse now’ might read as ‘there is no civilized war, it is only ever madness, and to believe otherwise is not only madness, but incompetence. You play as children at heroism, and it is a lie. There are no heroes here. Not on your side, at least.’
‘Spec ops: the line’ could be read as ‘what the fuck is erong with you people? Why do you even do this? What the fuck is even in it for you?’ With literally the first scene being the implicit ‘you’ve heard this story before, we both know you have, no part of this is new to you. so why the fuck are you so god damn stubborn about not fucking getting it?’ Scolding less the pissed off 19 year olds who do the atrocities, and more the entire society that keeps allowing them to be so staggeringly violently stupid.
I feel like the questions you have about my loading screen text are all answered by my loading screen text.
Killin nazis, lootin corpses.
If they’re r strategists, that was just good neitzschean nurturing.
As much a commentary on the complicity if the general culture and specific medium it comes from as the military type guy you’re playing.
But with the state monopoly on violence this becomes anti social thinking.
Only the state can do violence, and it must not be seen to be accountable to the people, so it cannot echo our aggregate morality.
There is a good version of that.
All you had to do was put the controller down and walk away.
Okay so the fascism was still thoroughly deniable if you were straight cis and white.
The internet was this like magical cool thing that was going to change everything.
The illusion of ownership was a lot more substantial, because while we were connected, we weren’t all always connected to everything
There was more space for privacy, interiority.
Houses were basically free (it was a scam but most people didn’t want to know that)
‘Conservative’ old dudes with nazi memorabilia usually got it the right way.
Even the literal nazis regularly shot at the cops. The cops even shot other nazis sometimes!
There were rarely more than 4 genocides going at once, none of them as bad or directly by major powers.
The cold war had just ended, so the libs were like 80% less insufferable (i know) and everyone was haopy the world couldnt suddenly end in nuclear fire with like two hours notice
A buncha annoying hippies and nerds were whining about ‘global warming’ but nobody really had to listen.
None of your tech had the juice to do what it said on the box and spy on you. Everything was unsecured. You could get into any computer anyone who mattered used by just deleting the password.
That last part sounds like some hyperbole i made up for a joke. It is not hyperbole and i did not make it up. It was, arguably, a joke.
Okay, so you add human in the loop. Pay some poor fucker in india to press one button.
I’d compliment men more if they weren’t always creeps about it.
Id smile more in public if men took ‘no’ for an answer. As-is, they must be pre empted.
The reason men don’t get compliments is other men. Sorry.
And shrinking rapidly. Iran is already as shitty as it wants to be. America wanta to be much much worse than iran is.
Courts are just cosplayers. Probably not even real vampires.
Vampires can steal your valuables too! You don’t know!
What is a pwrson? What if the vampire git a comouter program to intrude every system it could and make every speaker it got access to invite them in?
That would be pretty good.
Only response you need.