• SailorFuzz@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    what a wild and cynical world you must live in. Just divorced from any joy or whimsy… have fun making everyone around you feel awkward…

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      4 days ago

      How dare you infer I have no whimsy. Motherfucker I am chock full of whimsy and joy.

      What is more whimsical, enjoying a fresh new world for what it is and exploring it and accepting their differences that you may not fully understand, or asking if it has gay marriage and democracy and destroying it if it does not already reflect your neoliberal values?

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        4 days ago

        Just because neoliberals tolerate gay people doesn’t mean that gay rights are inherently neoliberal. Democracy, maybe, but we don’t know if they were doing elections with unlimited campaign spending by property owners or if they were voting in workers’ councils. Classical Athens, the United States, the PRC, the DPRK, and the Republic of Ireland all have/had democracies in some sense, but they vary massively in implementation, and anyone who calls all of those neoliberal is either very confused or not being sincere.

        Furthermore, trying to change the world is central to nearly any RPG. A crusade to obtain human rights doesn’t prohibit whimsy or enjoyment, but when you do the fantasy equivalent of traveling to modern Gaza to organize a festival, you shouldn’t be terribly surprised when you get a bad ending regardless of whether you accomplish your goal.

        Also, there’s no indication that the player characters were outsiders in the first place. You’re characterizing them as invaders, but this could have been an internal proletarian uprising.