M68040 [they/them]

“What if I were to rebrand neoliberalism and act like it’s a new philosophy again? Delightfully devilish, Yglesias!”

I’ve heard scuttlebutt about US think tank players like Focus on The Family moving in following the collapse. I doubt this is the whole of it, but I wonder what their role here is.

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.

I’m still holding out hope that Entertainment Sciences’ Bouncer turns up someday. We have basically everything but source code or a cab… Shit, there’s character model sheets that’ve been scanned and everything.

and, it’s like, these people are shitheads but sit there and bitch and mewl when someone does something even a hundredth as cruel to them. Suppressing opposition using ettiquette and decorum as a blunt instrument.

Cruelty is the air human politics breathes, It pisses me off that people just get to pretend otherwise when it’s convenient for them. Be assholes or don’t be assholes, don’t sit there slinging shit then just turn into a snivelling I’m-just-a-little-guy-why-would-anyone-do-this-to-me type when it curries favor with the unengaged and the normies

We just kind of don’t really believe in the future anymore in general. Least, not in any practical ways.

It’s interesting how quickly the Disney canon managed to develop the same problems the OT/PT had with the old EU - a lot of side material that’s deeper and more interesting than the actual movies. At least the OT/PT managed to pick a plot and stick to it long enough to get a cohesive end result, though.

Bara-ttatouille.