I don’t have much to say other than the writer and director are both pieces of shit.
I have not watched it because I have had enough zombie slop, tell me more so my hate can be better justified.
I stumbled across this post after seeing the commentary by the writer and director about the show’s season 2 premiere. They were giving me bad vibes so I went to see if anyone else was feeling the same way. It turns out, yes. There are bad vibes all over the place. There are parallels to October 8th. for season 2 in favor of the Israelis, including the Hannibal Protocol, people being kidnapped, and so on.
And for those who don’t know, the show’s director previously directed Chernobyl. And of course he has anti-communist brainworms subsidized by fossil fuel companies on that show as well. He likes to hide behind “just asking questions” from the libbiest lib who ever libbed perspective.
A reminder that the Chernobyl show is incredibly ahistorical despite having pretenses towards historicity. For example, it portrays the scientist living in a apartment block alone, when in fact he lived happily on a farm with his family, a fact acknowledged by his daughter in interviews. This is as well as pretending that the people who were dealing with the crisis weren’t among the top in their field for nuclear science, and were a bunch of bumbling bureaucrats.
It also does not acknowledge that despite the Soviets lack of communication to the public, this was mostly due to the fact that they didn’t exactly know what was going on as well, and causing mass panic with misinformation is exactly the wrong thing to do in a crisis.
And don’t forget that the direct death count is in the 30-50 range. The UN says up to 4000 excess deaths over the 60 year post-disaster period. For the worst nuclear disaster. A disaster which can be prevented.
Compare that with the uncountable deaths yearly from coal burning. Which is a disaster that can’t be prevented (except by not doing it). And thats not including climate change. The Chernobyl disaster is nothing compare to the social murder occurring daily in America.
(Not to mention the USSR relocated thousands of people out of the area. Compare that any of the thousands of superfund sites, where there is basically no assistance to leave. And if you do get compensation its after decades of legal battles.)
i still haven’t watched/played and i have no desire to, can someone explain how tlou2 is so zionist? this came up around the game’s release too and i feel ootl
quickest tl;dr i can do:
game’s two main enemy factions, the WLF and the seraphites are clearly based on the IDF and Palestinians respectively. The IDF analogue are written to be dicks but a somewhat rounded depiction, the Palestinian analogue are a bunch of super religious cult members that marry their daughters off to their elder men and exile and try to kill their trans kids.
writer of the game is a zionist liberal that felt ashamed at the fascist anger he felt back in the 2000s over IDF settlers being killed in self defense, so instead of doing self crit about that he was like “ill show the gamers they would have been just as mad as me!” and manufactured the sequel’s narrative to be like
spoiler
joel murdered -> bet ur mad about that lol -> second half of the game you play as enemy -> wow wasnt their anger justified and your anger justified as well??? -> cycles of revenge bad mmkay story set upon the stage of the IDF and Palestinian analogues
honestly not what i expected from the Discourse i figured it’d actually be about how one group taking another’s land was actually good lol. that still sounds like some gross equivocating libshit tho
thanks for the summary
