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Steam, lemmy and reddit are currently creaming themselves over a game which devs makes multiple really cringe "jokes" about slavery and exploitation. Read the steam page descriptions.
Those "pals" are clearly antropomorphised creatures being dogwhistle for humans. And if you read the game reviews, even the g*mers are not lost on that fact (just they love that):
You can capture full fledged NPC humans and make them your “Pals”.
Yes you can enslave actual humans.
You don’t need a dog whistle to imply human slavery when you can literally enslave humans in the game.
There are human NPCs in the game and you can put them in the pokeballs. At that point, they become docile and you can put them to work.
So this is why pokemon never made a 3D realistic game.
It's why I love this instance so much, only place which remains lucid during even the biggest of bullshit circlejerks.
The hitler particles in white gamers can be seen from space with their reaction to this game. The reviews on xbox are also very disturbing.
Steam is probably one of the whitest male gamer spaces, which is what I thought until I discovered Xbox.
Yeah this game is just a mish-mash glorifying both slavery AND animal cruelty. Very uncomfortable... and the fact this game is so popular speaks volumes.
EDIT: Learned a lot about certain comrades through this comment thread, didn't expect so many to get so defensive about their favorite bourgeois franchises.
Whait till you learn abput gta. You can actually kill people there.
lemm.ee really aren't sending us their best. They're sending nazis, they're sending slavery fetishists, they're sending 4channers; they're just sending awful fucking people.
I got into a scuffle with their admin and did a little journalism. What I found out about that instance won't surprise anyone here one bit.
After I called them out on this they started admin-removing content in large quantities so that the removals wouldn't show up in the modlog.
The game itself is fine, it's a fun, if fairly generic "survival" sort of game with heavy base building mechanics. But the memes about it all became about "edgy pokemon with guns and brutality" so this very PG sort of game is being treated like some R rated gorefest by idiots trying to be funny because their favourite youtuber made a joke about it. So naturally CHUDs love it because they get an excuse to be openly horrible.
It's basically a glorified asset flip except the assets are stolen and the game goes out of its way to be as immoral as possible.
Which sadly puts it just so slightly above what the game's industry has been shitting out for the last couple decades.
Right? It seems to be just another early access survival crafting game like the dozens if not hundreds of others that have come and gone over the last several years. The only gimmick seems to be "what if you could abuse Pokemon haha we're so edgy" and over 90% of players seem to agree that's a good enough gimmick to carry the rest of the game.
I wouldn't even given a second for this kind of borefest, and not even chuds posturing is remarkable, but what the devs wrote on the steam page immediately risen red flags, and the fact that was perfectly understood and enthusiastically accepted in the reviews also blared horns.
So it's not as if the chuds abuse the game to do horrible things, this game IS about horrible things with cutesy graphic as excuse for the people who wont.
It feels so 4chan adjacent that I'm looking at the last few friends in my contact list that I thought were on the level like "how do you not sense this? is your nose broken? Are your eyes sightless?" I don't like having to actively weigh and question how much my last vestiges of irl social contact are worth/whether it's worth having that fight over their unnervingly 4channer-adjacent slop.
Even worse is people keep justifying it with 'well Game Freak doesn't try/innovate/QA check anymore' but that... That shouldn't justify gleeful-slavery frenworld. Cassette Beasts is right fuckin there, as is Tem-Tem. (Neither of which really moved me personally, but that's beside the point.) The more I mull it over the more it genuinely pisses me off. Absolutely, I'd love an engaging, lore-heavy monster tamer alternative to Pokemon with the way Game Freak's been handling the franchise lately, but this one should've been sniffed out and rejected from the jump, I feel.
This is literally just "frenworld" the reddit Nazi community (but I repeat myself) embodied in a game.
“frenworld”
Oh shit "fren" = "pal", you're right.
Yeah it's an annoying habit I have lol