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The point of media like this is to activate and motivate people who are ideologically uncommitted and assure of them the facts that Nazism is a dangerous ideolo
by aaron-lebo 9y ago
The point of media like this is to activate and motivate people who are ideologically uncommitted and assure of them the facts that Nazism is a dangerous ideology and that it's OK and indeed necessary to oppose it with violence if and when other means are insufficient.
We've failed at a fundamental level if the grandkids of the victims and survivors of that war don't understand what happened is evil and wrong. It's just hard for me to contextualize a violent game which core purpose is to gun down waves of people as an effective teaching tool.
Is it like after the fifth headshot the kid is gonna sit back and say...I get it...Nazis are bad?
- anigbrowl 9y agoI wrote in the very first sentence that the point is not to change minds, which you inexplicably ignored. The point is to motivate people to fight against Nazism. The game is not about gunning down waves of random in an enjoyable spree of virtual destruction, but about gunning down Nazis qua proponents of genocide.
- aaron-lebo 9y agoI wasn't really trying to pick a fight with you. I've played games for a long time and based on my biased experience with gamers, you don't play first person shooters because you're trying to learn something. You play them because it's entertainment with big explosions and escapism. Some people will learn something from it, sure. Hopefully they get through high school understanding that, though.
- anigbrowl 9y agoYou keep responding to me as if I were claiming the purpose of the game were to educate people, when I have told you twice that I don't think that to be case.