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Screenshot: Operation Epic Furious: Straight to Hell

OK this game has it's funny moments and I love a good parody RPG maker game but unfortunately it's pretty lib in a lot of the humor too. It's hit and miss. However, it was apparently made as protest art, and that's where I start to have opinions.

My problem with this type of satire as form of protest is that it doesn't make people go "Wow, these people must be stopped!" it makes them go, "Wow, these guys are so stupid and entertaining!" I don't think the lib strategy of pointing to the Trump admin and saying "What a silly circus!" is effective, because circuses are entertaining, and being entertaining idiot business ghoul is literally how Trump got where he is.

I've had no interest in Mouse PI since it just looked like yet another retro boomer shooter but with a 30's animation/Steamboat Willie going public domain gimmick except it doesn't really even commit it to that look the same way Cuphead did. I was just watching Civvie's video about it and was flabbergasted by fucking awful the writing was

I assumed it was just some noir parody with gangster mice but the game's story is just all over the fucking place. There's a nazi party who've taken over the police force who are going around rounding up the shrews who are being drained of their ink (because it's a cartoon) by some kind of evil wizard who wants to use it to open a portal to hell or something

Did you really need to evoke the holocaust in your stupid cartoon mouse Doom clone where Troy Baker says a trillion bad cheese puns??? You're not making fucking Maus here

Edit: The comments on this video are pretty bad

How many shekels do you guys think IDF pays for game developers to make them include Jews and Nazis and make them the hero character to protect Jews in EVERY single game that's ever made?.. or how big is the punishment for not including """"THEM""""" in the games?

Great to see the continuing Nick Fuentesification of the internet

Edit2:

I did not care for this game. It's got a nice artstyle, and good music. The story is dull, the gameplay is dull, powerups are gimmicky... It really just does a lot of things for the sake of it that adds nothing else to the game. Also, John Brown should not be remembered as a "famous abolitionist", he was a psychotic terrorist.

Weirdo ACAB segment halfway through the video. Police brutality is such a modern day problem?? That's not what the bodycams tend to show.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/64554515

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8528506

Lead track (not counting the intro) of their most recent album. The bandleader/arranger/drummer is the guy behind the YouTube channel 8-bit Music Theory (highly recommended if understanding the "why" and "how" of music remotely interests you—there's a good mix of theory-heavy videos and more accessible ones). He even breaks down some of the techniques he used in this album's arrangements in this video.

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Ok so it's kinda jankily translated but the only other videogame that I've ever seen mention dialectics was fallout lol

(game is Neverness to Everness)

Country of peace dabbing on countries that manufacture weapons of war

I don't speak Spanish, but this looks really cool, it's like it's own little world.