I remember this being a thing you were supposed to do, because it made right-wingers clutch their pearls
“Umm actually The Left™ went mad with power and took political correctness too far, becoming the pearl-clutching puritans themselves”
Oh no! Not 1983’s Ultima III: Exodus allowing choice outside the gender binary!
IDK, my interactions with people who played AD&D suggest that kind of thing wasn’t exactly rare in RPGs at the time, even for cis people.
Edit: Reached out to a friend who played AD&D in the 80s, and it seems like attitudes toward roleplaying as genders other than your own varied from table to table, but it certainly wasn’t a rare thing to see.
I played some pen and paper RPGs in the '00s and we boys played women characters all the time. Sometimes it was because “lol boobs!” and sometimes it was “I think this character should be a girl because all my other characters have been male.”
Seems bizarre not being willing to play characters of different genders when you can play characters that aren’t even human.
Edit: Reached out to a friend who played AD&D in the 80s, and it seems like attitudes toward roleplaying as genders other than your own varied from table to table, but it certainly wasn’t a rare thing to see.
The main thing I remember being told about this from older dnd pals, was as long as people weren’t doing it to be a creep, it’s fine.
tourists think videogames started with the ps2
If you choose “other”, you automatically get 3 extra wisdom points. Source: I made this the fuck up but I want to believe
it would be cool if every mission in GTA 6 was to do home invasions on white people, vandalize their cars, rob their megachurches, and the money went to fund birth control being distributed at schools, community sex education, and abobos.
if I were the honcho of that game, my goal would be to the most outrageous moral panic from conservatives in the history of video games.
like if some petite bourgeois loser isn’t flying his bible-loaded Cessna into my office once a week, I am not going hard enough
abobos
This guy? Yeah, he should get to feature in more games for sure.
abobo is fitness goals.
#NeverSkipHeadDay
Jimmy Hopkins was based as hell and the average normie would blow a gasket if Bully was released today.
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Jimmy is queer (obviously).
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You dunk on creep teachers, and as someone who has worked in education for a hot minute nothing is more cathartic than pulling wacky high school pranks on the diddy lister gym teacher in one quest.
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Preps are just chuds and one of the most detestable npcs in the game. Unfortunately I find them the hardest because their whole challenge is boxing so you can’t just “click to win” like most npcs. Plus you get to call them inbred, and one of the graffiti tags against them literally calls them “capitalist scum”.
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Gary is the quintessential westoid, and if this game was released today there would be so many edits of “based gary”.
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Arguably the whole game is chock-full of some pretty poignant social commentary.
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chuds gonna seethe when they find out deus ex hong kong bartender praising the CPC
Aren’t the Triads in HK operating with the help of CPC, or at least with them looking the other way? It’s not like the entire game praises China. Although I don’t remember the bartender interaction.
lol just look a YouTube video about the bartender, the guy is a hardline China enjoyer.
Listen to me, this is real freedom. Freedom to own property, to make a profit, make your life. The West, so afraid of strong goverment, now has no goverment, only financial power.
As a bit of trivia re: games being political, Atari’s Missile Command (1980) was explicitly a statement on the futility of nuclear war inspired by the devs’ own fears during the cold war.
On the PC/Home computer end, you also had political sims like Balance of Power (1985-1990), which…well…
As for SEGA and Japanese politics, they made a whole ass arcade game dunking on prime minister Kakuei Tanaka taking bribes in the Lockheed Bribery Scandal. It got a export release virtually unchanged, somehow.
wym this was a non-political kiss between friends, nothing political going on
