I apologize to the mods and any members I may have infuriated. My English for such discussions got rusty.
This is the sort of argument that in my opinion completely validates Valve's stance on the matter of curation and content control. If people are already arguing with a straight face that strategy games are promoting the alt right, how far are we from a situation in which Valve is forced to remove Hearts of Iron because you can play as Germany in WW2?
Promoting is not the issue here, it is that there exist a considerable alt-right playerbase in those games. I also sent an email to the mods explaining that my post was about players who are both alt-right AND play strategy games. This is different than alt-right playing GTA, FPS or other games or spraying anti-gay messages in Splatoon Plaza.My humblest apologies fellow compatriot!
You mean you're as ignorant as that poster is and just want to agree with them.
There's no such thing as "France" as a country that has "always existed".
Most countries in the world are an amalgam of nation states that unfied.
You're talking absolute fucking drivel, and you're citing some fucking forum thread on some other fucking forum as the authoritative basis for your claims.
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This is seriously about as 'bad faith' as it gets. Its like linking to kotakuinaction to 'prove' the gaming media re run by a cartel of essjaydubyas.
Absolutely fucking infuriating
The site of that forum is often cited and discussed here and it also mentions various social issues regarding video games. I do not see any problem mentioning posts from its forum. On that thread there were not any reactions of that caliber like here. This was a mistaken assumption on my behalf.
If anime games, fps games and countless other games are analyzed here in how they connect to the alt-right (among other things ), I do not see why strategy games should be the exception.
I understand and justify your reaction, but my aim was not to stir things up or insult people personally, just to leave food for thought.
Ah yes, I forgot alt-right people were some exceptionnaly smart people with deep political knowledge. It requires a terrifically high IQ to have racists thoughts. That's some fucking huge reaching here.
The bolded reads like an elaborate troll. Really. Like someone who had to justify their Phd in Psychology. :"")
Also, this is also pertinent to your "Total war devs changed 3 Kingdoms to please the alt-right" because clearly the white nationalists fantasize about ancient China. :""""")
Plenty of racists have high IQ and are in esteemed positions of power, intellectuals and media world wide. They do not even need to belong to the alt-right political spectrum. This is far more dangerous. Racism and capitalism can be even connected to "Western Europe and America are better than Rest of the World".
Also I did not say "changed", it was just a concern because many players there are alt-right. There are countless discussions about FPS and white protagonists for that matter.
I apologise again.
It was just about some players and how they could influence things, not game developers or the genre. Vast majority of the strategy game community condemn such actions.
