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@matrix Extra Credits has always held this kind of insufferable attitude of "developers should be more responsible with the message they're putting out". I used to not mind this because while I disagreed with it, they still argued their position well and always erred on the side of creative liberty and still put out good apolitical content.

All this changed when they got the new host. A lot of the content is now overtly political and is now outright arguing that developers shouldn't present certain perspectives or explore certain themes because "it's offensive" or "it's wrong to make someone play the bad guy".

They've become the "video games bad" argument they used to rally against in the past, but instead of "driving people to violence", it's "driving people to nazism". They're literally making some of the exact same dumbass arguments about "normalization" that we've been refuting for DECADES at this point. I'm glad they got ratio'd to hell and back for that video.

Socrates: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

Extra Credits: “Entertainment which allows you to take the perspective of a Nazi makes you a Nazi.”

if your argument is that a right is bullshit because the government routinely violates it, I've got some bad news about your other rights.
@kaikatsu @prydt @sjw @xeno political correctness is one of the more dangerous forms of authoritarianism

political correctness doesn't stop racism, it perpetuates it

Even worse now.
I think that this guy has more bad video game takes.

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@kaikatsu @prydt @sjw @xeno I'll phone up Martin Luther King and make sure that he knows he was an asshole. Would you like me to lecture him about how it doesn't mean freedom from consequences if he brings up his assassination?
I had to skim through some of the paragraphs, but what the flying fuck did I just read https://vastabrupt.com/2018/10/31/gender-acceleration/
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