What universally beloved videogame you just can't enjoy?

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What universally beloved videogame you just can't enjoy? - sh.itjust.works

2 picks for me: Stardew Valley, most boring shit ever, I don’t see the appeal, seriously how the hell did that thing sold 20 million copies? And Witcher 3, I own that game since 2019 and I regret buying it, funny thing is that I’ve finished Dragon Age 1 and 2, which are kinda same genre but I actually enjoyed those games. I guess the old BioWare sauce carried those games unlike Witcher where there’s nothing to enjoy in its massive pointless world.

The Fallout series. The worldbuilding is so sloppy and lazy that it grates pretty much from the get-go… and that’s without even mentioning the white supremacist subtext it’s all drenched in.

…that’s without even mentioning the white supremacist subtext it’s all drenched in.

What?

Oh look… a liberal that refuses to see white supremacism when it’s literally on a screen a few inches from their face.

Yawn.

Wo did you think the (so-called) “ghouls” really are a stand-in for? Who did you think the (so-called) “tribals” are a stand-in for?

Nah, race isn’t implied in any of that. Ghouls were originally portrayed sympathetically, for the most part, at least until they turned zombie-like. Do you think zombies imply racism?

As for tribals; surprise! Humans arrange ourselves into small groups, often referred to as tribes, no matter what our shade of skin, nation or origin, or even our level of technology.

Do you think zombies imply racism?

Lol! I guess you haven’t realized why the majority of protagonists in the “zombie apocalypse” genre are always paragons of middle-class WASP-ness?

As for tribals; surprise!

Sure, Clyde… I guess the reservations exist purely because their inhabitants like the view, correct?

Sorry buddy, these are not the stereotypes you think they are.

Frankly, zombie movies have much more to say about modern life than other genres.

Only if you see the world through the same white supremacist lens that is so prevalent in (so-called) “prepper” communities.

If they focus on white people more, it’s typically

You mean it has nothing to do with the (supposed) “threat” posed to white middle-class Americans by all these “othered” peoples? I wonder what would happen if we were to replace the word “immigrant” with the word “zombie” in US main-stream media - would it make it any different or would the propaganda work pretty much the same? You need me to remind you how US authorities treat marginalized people during natural disasters?

But you have by no means established that Fallout made ghouls as racist stereotypes.

I don’t have to… the games pretty much does that all by itself. The relationship between humans and these “ghouls” in the games is a perfect representation of the “race relations” lens through which white liberals view the subject of white supremacism - which is, not concidentally, the furthest liberalism will allow discourse on white supremacism to go.

We have them now, everywhere.

Lol! So what’s the name of yours, then? Where’s your “tribe,” Clyde?

You were aware that it’s literally peak white supremacism to simply assume that everybody living in un-colonized spaces exist in (so-called) “tribes,” right?

Nor frankly, have you demonstrated that you speak for Native Americans.

No go, Clyde - you don’t get to deflect from white supremacism by using Native American folk as camouflage.

Wow. Just think. You typed all that for nothing.

You typed all that for nothing

Soooo… no word on that (alleged) “tribe” of yours, huh?

No surprises there.

Yawn.

You still talking?
Ahem - you were saying something bout your (alleged) "tribe?
Nope, I wasn’t. That was all in your silly little head.

This wasn’t you?

Tribes have always existed, in every people group. We have them now, everywhere. We grow up in them. We build them on our own.

Soooo… where’s your (alleged) “tribe,” Clyde?

Lookit you! Awww.

Oh… so that was you?

Glad we got that sorted out. So…

Are you having trouble remembering this (supposed) “tribe” of yours?

Oooh, reply again?

In other words… you don’t have the foggiest clue what it is you are talking about.

Is there anything you say that shouldn’t automatically be dismissed as verbal gonorrhea?

Oooh, reply again!

Soooo… nothing?

No surprises there.

No surprise at all, I’m sure! I am deliberately and maliciously wasting your time. You get nothing whatsoever.

Cmon, reply again?

Name your “tribe,” Clyde.
The protagonist of Fallout 2 is literally a tribal that goes to save his tribe and in the end kills the president of USA.