• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    This should just be taken down by steam tbh. It has no actual critique to make, its entire purpose is to profit off of either shock content by being outrageous or to pander to people whose views align with wanting slavery.

    It’s not like games with the mechanics this uses don’t exist. Dungeon Keeper did it in the 90s. Slap your minions with your god hand to make them work faster. Slap them too much and they will become unhappy and die. Games don’t have to use literal plantations and black slaves to achieve this gameplay and don’t have to rely on pandering or shock as the principle purpose of their existence.

    It is art with no value or goal other than to upset people, either the left for when it does not get taken down or the right for when it does. There should be no hesitation about removing such things.

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      I don’t really disagree, but then where ia the line? All ww2 games all relay on atrocities. They could all be fantasy games.

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        All ww2 games all relay on atrocities. They could all be fantasy games.

        It’s actually illegal in China to produce “alternative history” as a subject matter of videogame content, which is why you also don’t see a Chinese version of the grand strategy genre.

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        I actually think that might be the line.

        It took some effort and wasn’t profitable or really monetizable in a meaningful way.

        It also was part of what felt like a slightly more genuine wave of “hey isn’t this fucked up? The internet is a crazy place” and not the ragebait/post-irony wink wink nudge nudge game we live in today

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    Crazy that steam doesn’t have a report option for bigotry or hate speech. The only report applicable is Legal because racism is illegal in my country.

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      Valve have a half-admitted policy of freezepeach absolutism. Their online games are pretty unique in that there isn’t any punishment for putting up nazi symbolism and saying slurs in the chat. At least they don’t censor lefty content either but it shows that they’re just a business with no other value than moneymaking, they just don’t have brainless failson heir investors to force absurd ideas onto them

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    Based on other hard-hitting media analysis I’ve seen, here’s the response I expect to see from our greatest luminaries on the steam forum:

    Actually, this game is clearly anti-slavery. Do you think going around whipping black people is desirable? That’s just you being a sicko and projecting on the rest of us. In showing us brutal violence against the slaves, it is one of the most viscerally anti-racist games on Steam, or maybe ever, and the glossy depiction of the wealth of the slaver is ironic, an obvious absurdity that excoriates his depravity. You really need to develop some media literacy before you try to send the morality police to censor games you can’t handle. Games are allowed to depict immoral people, you know.

    Why is there that modern-looking tractor in the background, by the way? I don’t know much about the history of farming equipment, but it seems anachronistic.

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    we need to put a stop to femboys until we can figure out wtf is going on; the leap from My Pet Femboy to Crucifier & Plantation Simulator literally made me lol