I mean, killing people as a function of time plays a role here, right?
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The only apolitical video game is Tetris, and its export history is Cliff's Notes for cold-war economic shenanigans.
It's history which weirdly includes a lot of Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell's father.
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You want a game about politics? Play fallout new vegas. Yes, there is no true government, but the whole game is about factions trying to establish themselves like a government.
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Getting your piece to the other side in checkers it becomes a king
Chess does not involve politics, because there is no decision making in groups. The chess in Harry potter where the pieces can talk to you... That has politics
If chess were a new game released today, I imagine a lot of these "why'd they make it political" types would probably object to the fact that the most powerful character in the game is the only one that's clearly stated to be a woman.
Well, originally, the piece is Vizier - king's advisor, the gender of which isn't specified. (but implied to be male?)
So what you're saying is that switching it from Vizier to Queen isn't about progressive feminism, but instead about monogamy and heteronormative gender roles? Way to ruin it for everybody! 😠
Idk if I'm saying that, but it's definitely woke. They should've came up with a new character instead of just gender-swapping an existing one!
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Wokeness is why she's not in a bikini or hot. Look at this. ♕
End WOKENESS
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And now I want to 3D print myself a couple sets of pieces - One that is Woman in Bikini's in Pin-up poster poses, and the other in Hot AF Beach boys and the like in poses accenting there form.
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If chess came out today, some mod author would give her huge badonkers
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At least she's spiky... Spicy
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It's not about killing the king. The king can never be killed. It's about keeping him in check until he can't move anymore
It's also worth noting the term is "capture". And outside of rare instance - you didn't really want to kill knights and the like: You captured them, and ransomed them back to their family/liege lord etc.
And there is a reason the term "Kings Ransom" exists. John the II of France for instance was captured, and Ransomed for something like 300000 gold coins of the day - something like 300 million or up to about 3 billion in today's dollars (conversion is a little fuzzy but to put it simply: A BLOODY TONNE OF MONEY).
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No politics here, we can go about our business.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is literally one of the best games I've ever played and it's entire basis is politics.
Armstrong was screaming Make America Great Again about three years too early.
And is another fucking case where people who played it rooted for the villain, and missed the point.
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I guarantee you that’s where Turnip’s team got the slogan. Some unpaid internet played the game and mentioned it as Orange was walking by.
It originated from Reagan who took it from Thatcher, with Reagan not getting the "Make Britan Great Again" pun works because Great Britain is the name of the English portion of the UK
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Yeeah, by the time Trump used it, it was a cliché slogan for cinematic hard-right-wing movements and political parties in America. I think the one in The Purge is Keeping America Great
So it was a clue during the campaign that Trump was meaning to do a literal fascism.
I mean the slogan came from Reagan and predates the game.
It was a Reagan campaign, and people like Roger Stone and Steve Pieczenick were involved. Listening to him on Knowledge Fight covering Infowars, they aren't in touch enough to know video game references, unfortunately, since that would have been hilarious.
That's so funny to think about lol
I’ve always wanted to play it, but I never have. Same for all of the metal gear games, lol.
If only I could play them on PS5 :(
Rising is very very different to any other MGS game. Fair warning. I recommend every MGS game wholeheartedly, but don't play Rising and then pick up Snake Eater or MGSV expecting it to be more of the same.
It's the only one I've played, I'm waiting for the Metal Gear collection to go on sale on Steam
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