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Then don’t take your ethical values from video games? This Puritanization of all art and entertainment is disturbing.
by ceilingcorner 6y ago
Then don’t take your ethical values from video games?
This Puritanization of all art and entertainment is disturbing.
- galangalalgol 6y agoI think the precise criticism is that it was already puritanized. I don't think the argument was thay they set out to make mysogynist nazi propaganda, but that the cliche reorganizing machine that is a AAA gamehouse looked around at society, gears whirled, and the resulting thing that would sell the best that came flying out was a combination of white supremacist mythology, mockery of christianity, and the devaluation of femininity. Its not a critique of the game so much as it is of the society that produced it.
- ceilingcorner 6y agoIf you are judging a piece of artwork by how much it conforms to your moral code, you’ve already lost. That isn’t what art is or should be about.
- enkid 6y agoYou absolutely have a right to judge a piece of artwork according to your moral code, just like the artist has a right to make something that goes against your moral code.
- baud147258 6y agoif you deny the influence of pop-culture on how people see the past, you're deluding yourself.
- stale2002 6y ago> Then don’t take your ethical values from video games? This Puritanization of all art and entertainment is disturbing. The point is more that the game developers were trying to whitewash and "purify" the game, and that these efforts results in a worse game, that is less accurate, and also problematic. If you are upset about the PC police causing problems in your video games, then you should be mad at the game developers for their decisions to do that.