Current Events > The Guardian: How video games fuel the rise of the right wing

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/12/video-games-fuel-rise-far-right-violent-misogynist
Here we go.
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Violent, isolationist and misogynist desires course through games and push rightwing ideologies on players

lol good god

in the Bush years, American games endorsed aggressive foreign policy; since Brexit, British games advocate isolationism or nostalgia for empire and the prominence of anti-Islam games in the 2000s tells it all.

WHAT
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Can we just leave video games out of this shit?
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First, rightwing ideologies have been overrepresented and dominant throughout the history of video games. Although affected by context, video games have long focused on the expulsion of aliens (Space Invaders to XCOM), fear of impure infection (Half-Life to The Last of Us), border control (Missile Commander to Plants vs Zombies), territory acquisition (Command & Conquer to Splatoon), empire building (Civilization to Tropico), princess recovery (Mario to Zelda), and restoration of natural harmony (Sonic to FarmVille).

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wait how are they spinning the themes of Sonic as bad? so it's alt right to resist a fat man and his robots from taking over the world and ruining nature?

In the opinions section, so who cares what some randomer thinks?
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also Xcom is in the right too. the person who wrote that probably knows nothing about the plot of Xcom or ever played a single game in the series. it's always been around violent aliens trying to kill or enslave all humanity. in some of the games, if you get a game over you see a cinematic with humans all turned into slaves and mutants and the planet ruined as it's terraformed for alien use. Xcom are good guys defending the human race from destruction

Gamers think the industry is run by SJWs while this guy thinks plants vs zombies is about border control.

People really do see what they want to see.

They seriously picked, like, the worst possible time to publish this, lol.
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Smashingpmkns posted...

Can we just leave video games out of this shit?

i wish. now that trump has brought them to the fore front crazies everywhere are going to give their opinions on it.
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What a stupid opinion piece.

A perfect demonstration that you can twist anything into any narrative you please if you are patient, selective, and creative enough, though.
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He's picking the wrong aspect. Gamergate is really what drove youth into the insane parts of the right wing politics. But video games themselves aren't influencing anyone politically.
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First, rightwing ideologies have been overrepresented and dominant throughout the history of video games. Although affected by context, video games have long focused on the expulsion of aliens (Space Invaders to XCOM), fear of impure infection (Half-Life to The Last of Us), border control (Missile Commander to Plants vs Zombies), territory acquisition (Command & Conquer to Splatoon), empire building (Civilization to Tropico), princess recovery (Mario to Zelda), and restoration of natural harmony (Sonic to FarmVille).

BAHAHAHAHAHA
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Fox News and The Guardian both hate videogames. It figures that when they both finally agree on something, its something completely moronic.
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Freddie_Mercury posted...

First, rightwing ideologies have been overrepresented and dominant throughout the history of video games. Although affected by context, video games have long focused on the expulsion of aliens (Space Invaders to XCOM), fear of impure infection (Half-Life to The Last of Us), border control (Missile Commander to Plants vs Zombies), territory acquisition (Command & Conquer to Splatoon), empire building (Civilization to Tropico), princess recovery (Mario to Zelda), and restoration of natural harmony (Sonic to FarmVille).

lol
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Tmaster148 posted...

He's picking the wrong aspect. Gamergate is really what drove youth into the insane parts of the right wing politics. But video games themselves aren't influencing anyone politically.

Yeah I think there's a very strong argument to be made regarding Gamergate and the online alt-right, but this is fucking nonsense.
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First, rightwing ideologies have been overrepresented and dominant throughout the history of video games. Although affected by context, video games have long focused on the expulsion of aliens (Space Invaders to XCOM), fear of impure infection (Half-Life to The Last of Us), border control (Missile Commander to Plants vs Zombies), territory acquisition (Command & Conquer to Splatoon), empire building (Civilization to Tropico), princess recovery (Mario to Zelda), and restoration of natural harmony (Sonic to FarmVille).

lmao this amount of reaching can only be possible by satire or brain damage.
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theguardian is just one gigantic psychotic feminist opinion piece
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Tetris encourages communism
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Freddie_Mercury posted...

First, rightwing ideologies have been overrepresented and dominant throughout the history of video games. Although affected by context, video games have long focused on the expulsion of aliens (Space Invaders to XCOM), fear of impure infection (Half-Life to The Last of Us), border control (Missile Commander to Plants vs Zombies), territory acquisition (Command & Conquer to Splatoon), empire building (Civilization to Tropico), princess recovery (Mario to Zelda), and restoration of natural harmony (Sonic to FarmVille).

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Funbazooka posted...

Freddie_Mercury posted...

First, rightwing ideologies have been overrepresented and dominant throughout the history of video games. Although affected by context, video games have long focused on the expulsion of aliens (Space Invaders to XCOM), fear of impure infection (Half-Life to The Last of Us), border control (Missile Commander to Plants vs Zombies), territory acquisition (Command & Conquer to Splatoon), empire building (Civilization to Tropico), princess recovery (Mario to Zelda), and restoration of natural harmony (Sonic to FarmVille).

I mean they could have said Mario was a game about a White European going to a foreign country and stomping on the brown people there while taking their money but no.
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Here we go again. I knew the bullshit 'lootboxes are gambling for kids' argument that people made out of spite were the start of something way, way worse.

"I dislike something. Therefore, it's directly responsible for what I hate most."