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Boethiah posts:
[a screenshot of a comment by BrokenHomesSmal…]
“Just put this bread into the oven for the first time. What on earth does “satin-smooth” mean? I am not a painter or a communist, I cannot work in such flowery terms as this. The fascists at the NSA wouldn’t allow this - I hope when they read this comment they will immediately take down this wishy-washy recipe and replace it with a concrete scientific methodology that is more suited to the delicate and precise nature of baking.” [screenshot ends]
this reads like Disco Elysium dialogue

autismgod replies:
this is like something an NPC says to you at the bakery in the witch alps version of Disco Elysium

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Eh? Didn’t seem like they were offended or worried about anyone being offended… Seems like they were just pointing out that the dude might be middle aged and white, but he’s not generic or boring. And I agree, the character is bonkers. There is nothing generic about him.

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      You don’t have to be an asshole, you know.

      Why is it your default assumption that everyone who disagrees with you is a middle aged white man?
      And why do you act as if calling someone that is an insult?

      • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Wow. Let’s flip this around for a second. Why do you think middle aged white men have gotten such a bad reputation in the last ten years or so?

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          Let’s not. I’m not particularly interested in getting baited into a silly Internet argument.

          I recommend you look up the definition of “discrimination” in a dictionary, tho.

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      So, I agree with the principle of your statement but the point that the discussion around the original post makes is that the writing is largely inextricable from the politicized plot of the middle-aged divorced alcoholic amnesiac cop.

      Like, the whole reason you spend the better part of the game reconstructing your ideology around neoliberalism, fascism, communism, or centrism is because the world around you has failed you in such spectacular fashion, as it has literally everyone else in Martinaise, and while I’d agree that the expression of that sentiment shouldn’t just be restricted to a middle-aged cishet white guy, it would be a wasted effort in a game about finding your cat in a village in the alps which is, per the post’s complaints, ostensibly apolitical.

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        I think just erasing the politics from Disco Elysium to replace it with alps witch is a stupid idea, but there have just been so so so many games where you play as a depressed middle age man. A dude who, plot twist, is destructive to himself and others, and who we try (and sometimes fail) to help become less destructive over the course of the plot.

        Off the top of my head in no particular order:

        • God of War
        • Max Payne
        • Allan Wake
        • BioShock Infinite
        • The Last of Us 1
        • Silent Hill 2
        • Red Dead Redemption

        There’s nothing inherently wrong with that type of character or plot of course, there are some kickass games in that list, but I can understand wanting something else at this point.