I mean, "we're the baddies" and all that. I think the CoD has kinda lost any semblance of resonability a long time ago (maybe it never really had any), but hell if this isn't going full villain mode into a remake (?) of a mainline game.
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Media is always propaganda. Wether it is war movies glorifying imperialism, tv shows portraying an idealised portrait of petit bourgeois aspiration, or video game polemics against the geopolitical rivals of the American Empire, it exists to continually mold the consumer into an anti-social reactionary ideologue. There's a reason libs can not speak about real world affairs without referencing some major pop-culture franchise.
The lesson? Video games will be no more under socialism. Only tetris shall remain in order to foment positivity toward the soviet union.
I think it should be more about pushing video games in a healthy direction rather then just saying no to video games altogether. Neglecting consumer desires is a big reason the USSR lost the war of influence against the USA, and likewise a big reason China's global image has been beginning to rise in recent years with it's advances in the entertainment industry. Video games and media in general should exist to as a medium to express art and ideas, today generally they are the exact opposite of that and exist as pools of toxicity and stagnation instead.
That last part was a joke mostly. Video games are currently propaganda for bourgeois ideologies because that is simply the conditions they are produced. Even video game addiction is itself a product of life under capitalism and the supremacy of the profit motive. I'd say that neither of these would apply under socialism and that there are exceptions to the rule presently, mostly in the FOSS/Libre space.
Nonetheless, I'd maintain that this medium has a tendency to either attract or create people who are anti-social and reactionary. The racist portrayal of PoC, objectification of women, and strong lean toward imperialist propaganda might not be unique to games as an entertainment medium, but are certainly way more in your face and the defensive posture consumers take whenever these issues are raised is quite damning.
It's not so much the medium itself as it is the content of that medium, in a Capitalist system it will be contaminated with the various toxins of that system, sometimes very deliberately.
In a healthy system, like one of the stages of socialism for example, it is far easier for it to be made healthy, will be increasingly encouraged to do so, and if it's too toxic it may even get the axe.
this is so real
I've seen all kinds of ridiculous stuff.
According to libs, Israel is just like Harry Potter and America is Gandalf or something while Iran is Voldomort or something. Zelenskyy is Captain America and Trump is Palpatine. These giant media franchises are not only a stand in for having an actual personality or even a smidge individuality whatsoever, but also seemingly for political theory. I haven't heard any libs outside of academic writings even so much as hint at any sort of coherent political philosophy or even liberal theories of political economy.
It's a widely recognized phenomenon: