I heard this is one of those "sleeper" conservative games. Is this true?

[suck my wawa]

Different people have said this game is great for being a low key liberal values type of game without being too preachy, but I have read other places and from friends that this game is one of those secret pro conservative message games; but the main audience is too media illiterate to understand subtext.

[Dude with Siba on avatar]

dude, go play the game yourself, you've got your own head on your shoulders

[Nangi]

Originally posted by suck my wawa:

this game is one of those secret pro conservative message games

It's been 8 years since I've seen anything lore related to the game but it definitely didn't have any pro conservative undertones, the complete opposite of conservative if anything

[APT-GET]

So, massive spoiler warning:



If anything, the subtext is anti-conservative - its themes are all against things like conservative groupthink and the effects capitalism has on everyday people. The subtext is that just because something is the way its been done - aka traditionalism - does not make it right, and that change and growth are important. At the same time, losing that which is important to you because of moneyed interests and financial struggle leaves a hollow broken shell where happiness once was - again, the opposite of the conservative line-go-up mentality.

Plus there's huge themes of helping out your community just by being present in it and there for them. While conservatism may preach things like "family values" or "small town businesses shall never be forgotten", in practice conservatism is always, without fail, a money laundering scheme for billionaires who would throw you, your family, your dog and your neighbors into the woodchipper without a second thought if it meant a quarterly increase of 0.000005% profit. And to keep you from figuring that out, conservatism also preaches ethnic division and a hatred of intrinsic differences, while this game embraces diversity and weirdness and being an oddball who doesn't neatly fit.

So no, no it is not a sleeper conservative game, unless you drink the kool-aid of things that conservatives pretend to care about but in practice burn to the ground every chance they get.

[Zio]

Folks, I really love your responses. The post is bait though, my fav being the implication that non-conservative people are media illiterate. Like we hadn't heard time and again how right wingers mourned where cartoons and other stuff these days went, when almost literally all of that stuff in our childhoods from at least the 80s and onwards had either dedicated episodes or entire themes about appreciating diversity. Or like their repeated demonisation of Frankenstein's monster, missing the point by so much they might as well take some trips around the moon.

[suck my wawa]

Originally posted by Zio:

Folks, I really love your responses. The post is bait though, my fav being the implication that non-conservative people are media illiterate. Like we hadn't heard time and again how right wingers mourned where cartoons and other stuff these days went, when almost literally all of that stuff in our childhoods from at least the 80s and onwards had either dedicated episodes or entire themes about appreciating diversity. Or like their repeated demonisation of Frankenstein's monster, missing the point by so much they might as well take some trips around the moon.

this wasn't bait i was just honestly asking since i knew nothing about this game other then the women who falsely accused someone of rape and it made the guy commit suicide.

[Zio]

It's almost cute how quickly people drop their masks sometimes.

[suck my wawa]

Originally posted by Zio:

It's almost cute how quickly people drop their masks sometimes.

what mask was i trying to pull off. I didn't say i was a liberal trying to seek out games not to play. I just wanted to know what people who played the game thought since it seemed like your standard religion bad game. I wanted to see if there was more nuance to it.

[Rae]

i would say it's the opposite, but i don't see why it matters so long as the game tells a good story that resonates with you and makes you think, and feel. looking at things from a different angle is the only way we ever develop our own perspectives and become more rounded, empathetic people.

Originally posted by suck my wawa:

Originally posted by Zio:

It's almost cute how quickly people drop their masks sometimes.

what mask was i trying to pull off. I didn't say i was a liberal trying to seek out games not to play. I just wanted to know what people who played the game thought since it seemed like your standard religion bad game. I wanted to see if there was more nuance to it.

honestly, i would say it's more "cults bad" than "religion bad."