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How we know this isn't the original team: They would never imply cops have ever been "in"
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...nope, none of the above: not a moral position, just don't care for the genre at all...
(always found its fundamental power fantasy cartoonish + distasteful; even when the narrative tropes are subverted, the genre tropes remain offensive + played-out ad nauseum)
But that's not what you said. You presented your aversion to the game on moral grounds, not on the grounds of "Its just not for me"
The power fantasy of being a broke deadbeat alcoholic?
I wish I had the confidence to beg everyone I meet for money and cry in front of strangers, that's the real power fantasy.
Whenever I see guys running around looking for pfand in order to make enough money to stay off the streets for one more day I know I feel jealous of their powerful position
Saying Disco Elysium is a piece of police fetishism is imparting a moral judgement on it. Especially when your base for that valuation is... well seemingly nothing