A new game concept idea

[isitmemberi.hopto.org]

Let's make a game named "My Little Fascist: Banhammer Is Magic", depicting the hard work of Support Members, who are currently underrepresented.

In this game the player will take on the role of an outsourced Support Member overseeing the Flatus Community forums for the company named Stopcock.

As a Support Member, they will be able to ban people they don't like or people who are snitched on, delete their posts and works, change people's nicknames to concentration camp-style numerical identifiers, reply with ridiculous boilerplates, silently delete support tickets, and block people from accessing the support system.

The player will be able to earn upgrades by gaining Butthurt from banned people. For example, the Jira Hilite upgrade, which scans the message snitched on for Bad Words and, if found, automatically selects the "ban was applied correctly" boilerplate, so the player only needs to click a button. Before this upgrade the player will be forced to choose a random boilerplate, because it is forbidden by Company Policy to Actually Read User Messages, to avoid Brain Contamination With Thoughts.

There will be difficulties, of course, like a randomly occuring Show-Off Justice event: a random replied ticket is chosen, and if the boilerplate used to reply is starkingly irrelevant, whatever punitive actions the player chose are rolled back and the player loses a level.

But to sweeten the pill, there will be abilities one can add, like an ability to peek at the message before choosing a boilerplate. This will allow scenarios like replying to the message complaining about reports being ignored with the "we encourage you to report" boilerplate, increasing Butthurt gain.

The number of Support Member Actions performed consequently will be limited by Stamina, which must be replenished by resting. There will also be items, allowing this, like Digital Viagra to re-energize the Support Member.

There will also be System Updates, allowing changes to the game mechanics, like addition of Social Rating: successfully banning a user multiple times will lower their Social Rating, up to Freaking Freethinker, systematically lowering the chance of Show-Off Justice for this user and the chance of their reports being effective, while raising the Social Rating of the snitch, up to the Faithful Fascist, which excludes them from the list of snitching targets. Using Bad Words will strip them of this status, though.

The goal is to scare all Freethinkers into silence, so that only Fascists can speak. After reaching this condition, the cutscene will play where, after reviewing their career, the player is fired and is put in a concentration camp for breaking the Company Policy by reading the messages.

Here are some possible in-game motivational posters I can think of:
"Don't solve problems, ban the words!"
"Your life doesn't matter."
"Trust the Hilite!"
"Boilerplates are your friends!"
"Don't read the messages!"
"ꓘꓘꓘ is top priority!"
"Don't joke! Be woke!"
"People? What people?"
"No discussion = No problem!"

[sleeps]

what is bro yapping about? 🗣️🔥🔥

[𝔈𝔩𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔬]

Honestly, a lot of games have taken a similar approach and done well in doing so.
You have to find a balance between corny and serious. Cheesy enough to chuckle at and be entertained by the absurdity, but serious enough in the way narrative points land to get the message across.

It's not "Wow, that was powerful and hit me hard"
It's "Haha, yeah I guess when it's put that way, it makes sense"

[isitmemberi.hopto.org]

Messaggio originale di 𝖠̶̶̅𝖨̶̶̅𝖬̶̶̅:

Honestly, a lot of games have taken a similar approach and done well in doing so.
You have to find a balance between corny and serious. Cheesy enough to chuckle at and be entertained by the absurdity, but serious enough in the way narrative points land to get the message across.

It's not "Wow, that was powerful and hit me hard"
It's "Haha, yeah I guess when it's put that way, it makes sense"

Sadly, not all the absurdity is entertaining. Sometimes it needs to be shown not for fun, but so that it can be stopped, and the first step in this is to make it known outside the controlled media.

[𝔈𝔩𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔬]

Messaggio originale di isitmemberi.hopto.org:

Messaggio originale di 𝖠̶̶̅𝖨̶̶̅𝖬̶̶̅:

Honestly, a lot of games have taken a similar approach and done well in doing so.
You have to find a balance between corny and serious. Cheesy enough to chuckle at and be entertained by the absurdity, but serious enough in the way narrative points land to get the message across.

It's not "Wow, that was powerful and hit me hard"
It's "Haha, yeah I guess when it's put that way, it makes sense"

Sadly, not all the absurdity is entertaining. Sometimes it needs to be shown not for fun, but so that it can be stopped, and the first step in this is to make it known outside the controlled media.

I do agree, I just think the word play and general idea/developmental road map would have be perfect for people today to understand what the game is trying to accomplish without publicity turning it into another meme. A part of the deceptive practices are not being able to tell if something is serious, satire or simply trying to be confusing.

[isitmemberi.hopto.org]

Messaggio originale di sleeps:

what is bro yapping about? 🗣️🔥🔥

DIE. I mean, Diversity, Inclusion, Equity.

[Adversary]

…I am tired of politics and current events being inserted into video games. I am tired of authoritarians on all sides demanding that this be censored or that be used to force their agenda.

Just let fun things be fun and keep serious real world ♥♥♥♥ out of entertainment writ large. If you can't just let fun things be fun, then please go and stay go. I would sincerely appreciate it.

[isitmemberi.hopto.org]

Messaggio originale di 𝖠̶̶̅𝖨̶̶̅𝖬̶̶̅:

I do agree, I just think the word play and general idea/developmental road map would have be perfect for people today to understand what the game is trying to accomplish without publicity turning it into another meme. A part of the deceptive practices are not being able to tell if something is serious, satire or simply trying to be confusing.

A demonstration of serious intentions is necessary to be distinguised from trolls. I see.

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Messaggio originale di isitmemberi.hopto.org:

Messaggio originale di 𝖠̶̶̅𝖨̶̶̅𝖬̶̶̅:

I do agree, I just think the word play and general idea/developmental road map would have be perfect for people today to understand what the game is trying to accomplish without publicity turning it into another meme. A part of the deceptive practices are not being able to tell if something is serious, satire or simply trying to be confusing.

A demonstration of serious intentions is necessary to be distinguised from trolls. I see.

Exactly