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I Hope You Get To Live Your Entire Life As A Human Being (transgamerthoughts.com)

submitted 4 months ago by ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works

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I thought this was going to be a review of my time with Santa Ragione’s Horses, the controversial art game recently banned from Steam and the Epic Store. To some extent, this will be that but after playing the game I think the game itself is maybe not too interesting when compared to the situation surrounding it.

which is to say that a game about pressures of authoritarianism is fine but watching forces outside of the right align with captial and champion the decision to ban it from storefronts is perhaps even more telling than anything in the game. nominally lefitist gamers or vaguely progressive academics have found ways to decide that this game is simply something that should be dismissed. in doing so they align with the forces of mass capital and censorship, painting a picture of How This So Of Thing Is Allowed To Happen.

Horses is a violent game. it is a game about participating in torture and slavery. it is a game that deploys sexual violence with mixed clarity. but I think it deserves to exist and so watching as certain voices have emerged to contend that worthiness has been frustrating. so I played it and we’re gonna talk about it.

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[–] MrKurteous@feddit.nu 0 points 4 months ago

Wow this really was an excellent read, thanks for sharing!