Do they realize that they're literally a parody of themselves?

Yeah as much as Skyrim is a weak point in the Elder Scrolls saga, I still look back on it fondly. Starfield will not have this legacy.

Graebers “Debt” does a great job of deconstructing this. Econ 101 really creates so many brainworms.

The cyberpunk genre is pretty clearly a criticism of capitalism, but the main story in the game is basically a libertarians response to that, so they’re not totally off the mark.

“Community Center”

It's closely related to "always the same map," but essentially the anglospehere and western europe primarily, fake korea and japan can be included depending on the context.

Yeah it’s not an inherently fascist take to want a game that simulates running a country to allow a fascist play through to be viable. The people that complain about the fascist power level and real fascists are mostly the same, but not by definition.

I checked out that comm and it was 100% anti communist spam from that user. So glad we never federated with them.

There was probably some rationale where actually vaccinating people would have meant involving other departments or some shit and they didn’t want to risk blowing their op. Basically the evil is baked into the system, it’s not some cartoon villain. IMO this is so much worse than some evil cia director who’s goal it is to fuck up pakistan.

I've been fortunate enough to have seen my material conditions improve as I've entered my mid-thirties which has let me start a family and buy a home. I've also watched my incredibly talented and hard working friends/acquaintances/neighbours be ground into dust under the cruel rule of capitalism. I got lucky, they didn't, this has radicalized me far more than any naive idealism ever could.

Criticizing Hexbear with an ableist comment is

Criticizing this article isn’t the same as supporting Russia lol.