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“balanced and unbiased take on WWII” after calling something “anti-nazi slop” is hard to even call a dog whistle, it’s more like a fog horn.
I 'think' there's a more innocent interpretation in there of something like, "If you're going to do Nazis right now, it might be worth making them more than a cliche villain to spray lead at so people can see how intrusive and insidious the ideology is."
buuuuut "should be more than anti-nazi slop" is one hell of a way to say that xP
Yeah, mostly because that’s not at all what he was trying to say with that sentiment.
Never attribute to malice that which can be attribute to stupidity.
Except for Nazis: it's all malice.
What about when it's stupid malice?
Godwin and Hanlon had a baby
But how do you cross that Nazi threshhold without false positives?
If you complain that anti-nazi media is biased, you've passed it.
That would be a bit more of a valid interpretation if it weren't for the fact that Wolfenstein is set in an alternate universe where the Nazis win the war.
You can hardly make them the classic 'inevitably going to fail' villain when they've been in power for the last 60 years.
Maybe they could add a scene where one of them is stroking a white cat although honestly that's pretty much the Wolfenstein aesthetic already.
Whistling is so last decade for conservatives and the rest of the right