it would be cool if people stopped calling symbols that actually really scare me red herrings
there’s no “people with actual power” over minorities there’s just “people with power over minorities”
sure some people are more capable of causing harm to larger groups of disenfranchised people but that doesn’t make the guy yelling racial slurs on the train any less shitty to deal with
dealing with systemic racism is understanding that there are actors with the ability to cause harm to large swaths of PoC and SIMULTANEOUSLY understanding that small scale instances of racism and racist actions have a chilling effect on the energy of PoC
so like, cool that you’re able to identify the actors that have that ability, but you’re not going to get very far by trivializing the reactions of those that are responding to “4chan goons” with anger and fear
i no longer have any idea what this thread is about but i’m here to say that The Witcher is black and all Witchers in the Witcher universe are also black and it is only because of an unfortunate error that they do not appear that way in any Witcher media
Nazi-ism is an aesthetic. All nazis are larpers, they just love killing people because of their ethnicity while cosplaying as midcentury germans. American nazis have already killed people in this last year and have only been emboldened by the president’s tacit/overt support.
This is a dumb conversation. Can we just skip to the part where we find out what groups Raz’s nationalists of choice want to ethnicity cleanse? I’m morbidly curious.
We really wanted to get back to having a full body model, because in New Order you were basically a disembodied arm / gun / first-person model. So if you look down you have no legs. But in this game it’s a full body model, which in itself is incredibly much more work, but we have a dedicated team who is super passionate about the first-person experience.
When they first showed that off by having traditional double-jumping replaced with telescopic stilts in the last gameplay trailer I laughed hard. The last game did a great job of making you feel grounded in a body regardless, I hope they haven’t ditched the leaning, that felt fantastic.
God knows what’s going on with that promo pic but if they’re going for a codepence thing with regards to BJ and Frau Engel hunting each other down that’d be the most Verhoeven thing yet.
Wolfenstein: The New Order is the first time I’ve enjoyed a FPS single-player campaign this much since N64 days. New Colossus is going to have to wait ~2 months while I mainline Mario Odyssey directly into my bloodstream but then it’ll be a great dessert.
“what is even the point of this kind of armchair expertise “this isn’t the real problem I’m not going to do anything about the real problem, just point out this isn’t it for some reason, they’re not really nazis cause they’re not a german 1930s political party, yadda yadda” nonsense people always trot out. everyone’s a revolutionary in history class, a pedantic “it’s different now” chickenshit in the real world.”
Disagreeing with many underlying assumptions doesn’t imply not acknowledging there is a problem nor discouraging action per se.
As to being bothered by people being upset at the lack of black people in Witcher, I do disagree with the premise of the supposed injustice in not having black people in the Witcher games, since it straightjackets globally marketed video games to submit to global (read: American) demands. If you accept the latter though, I won’t deny Witcher is racist.
And in regards to people bothered by nazis marching around and doing something about it --> I actually have not said that. but I don’t think killing Nazis in Wolfenstein 2 qualifies as “doing something about it” either. Mind you, I’d indeed back down on calling Wolf2 a leftist power fantasy, since I think it only fulfills it in part: specifically, for the people who project Nazism from Richard Spencer to Trump voter (or in gamer terms, gator) to your liberal white guy who doesn’t admit his privilege.
And as to whoever talked about Nazi as an aesthetic - that’s what my Nazi LARPer pejorative was meant to convey. I guess instead of Nazi it’d been appropriate to say fascism in general, but where’s the fairness in that?
"Can we just skip to the part where we find out what groups Raz’s nationalists of choice want to ethnicity cleanse? "
Who is talking about ethnic cleansing? If someone not born to my home country has learnt the native language, I consider them part of my ethnicity. Am I and the rest of the ca one million people superior over other races and people of ca 7 billion that should be wiped out of existence? I’ll let you answer that yourself.