• RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I’m really developing a violent reaction to the “video games are escapism” line.

    Like, that’s all the art form is to you? A means to escape your life and turn off those dumbass noises in your head for a while?

    Also, knifecat escape from what, exactly? bridget-pride-stay-mad

    • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      People who hide behind the word “escapism” are absolutely the sort of people who will go off on a rant about how places like China or Russia or [insert target country here] are full of unthinking drones that wouldn’t dream of contradicting the status quo. :projection:

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      The main goal of the Nazi film policy was to promote escapism, which was designed to distract the population and to keep everybody in good spirits; Goebbels indeed blamed defeat in World War I on the failure to sustain the morale of the people.

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