It doesn't helt that the dev has praised some retard that recreated Charlie Kirk's murder in his game
My favorite thing with this dumpster fire of a video is the fucking comments.
A lot of them follow the simplistic idea of "They fought the nazis, so they probably would agree with all i support". They don't care about the fact that most people there were in favour of racial segregation, they supported sodomy laws or that they actively hated jews.
Legitimately, if you were to go grab my grandpa and sit him down with a Wehrmacht officer, they'd agree on 90% of all the shit you mentioned up above.
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Or, you know, the fact that a lot of the US didn't give a fuck about nazis at all until they were personally attacked....
On top of that I'd argue none of them viewed it in this retarded reddit way of "vague evil nazi totalitarianism ideology is bad, it's a moral obligation to defend freedom and be le heckin decent person" but rather more like "yea those germans are kinda retarded, let's fuck them up for the glory of the USA"
I'll drop something that was very enlightening and surprising.
Most people at the time took issue with the Nazis being anti-Christian more than anything funnily enough
I was thinking about this as well as the obsession with Japan. It's easy to lump that in with general weeb obsessions, but it seems different with trans games. I've also noticed it in big mobile games. I remember some mobile game having a featured video on youtube about them adding a character that was like a schoolgirl by day and ninja by night and she LOVES her onigiri. A friend and I agreed it was like modern orientalism. I wonder if these obsessions could almost be considered "woke racism" which feels really funny to type out.
I think (especially with Nazi’s) they saw it as them merely going off to fight to settle the death throes of European aristocracy/monarchy alongside as a gesture of helping the French and British as they had done in WWI. For example, before the bombing of an actual town square by a factory in either Düsseldorf or Cologne, a lot of American bomber crews actually rejected the idea of the mission and protested to their commanders stating that they had been bombing only factories and military bases up to now, civilians were too far. Only the Jews in their squadrons actually supported the idea and even then in personal memoirs after this was seen as weird, vindictive behaviour.
It is because they are trying to subvert and push their horseshit into what they like. They don’t actually care about upholding customs and values of these nations, they want Japan to be the window dressing to their retard sex fantasies.
They also probably want to own the chuds by trying to appropiate Japanese stuff and say "Look, Japan is not le based and hecking amazing racist and conservative place you think it its. It is degenerate like me".
It is common behavior for outcast/losers to not fit normie spaces and then retreat to inhabited niches and either fully change their personality or try to change the niche itself (sometimes both). This thread is an example of it - people who can't and don't belong to normie spaces are retreating to "retro gaming" niche since it is easier to be noticed is such spaces.
Is it kind of like running the game in a VM?
I think the main issue is lack of incentive to improve. I understand that making even a "Bad" project on a game engine requires some effort, especially if you're new; But this kind of niche has already formed a market - yet, the developers mainly cling to the same few tropes and development\design techniques, to try and imitate the same things they saw in older, fully produced games (While not fully analysing and employing techniques\decisions from those games). It's like when an AI gets trained on faulty\low quality information - the output is then also low quality.
'This game is the throwback to the 90's FPS shooters, such as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Half Life and more.'
I will always fucking despise the idea of "cultural appropriation" because of this. I miss that charm too. People are too scared to even touch other people's cultures because of this. There's such an obsession with culturally-accurate and enriched media and I'm sick of it. Who cares if it's "ignorant" as long as it's not actively trying to be propagandistic or meanspirited, and if it is meanspirited, who gives a fuck?! It's fun to see how different cultures view each other whether its accurate or not, and more than often people from all sides will find enjoyment or amusement in their representation. The average person doesn't exactly take media that seriously because... well duh, it's just fiction, so why bother getting offended? Silly example but South Park's representation of Canada is stupid and nonsensical as a Canadian but it's funny to see what Americans think Canada is like (or at least an exaggerated caricature) and those segments always stood out to me as some of my favourites. I understand that the base intentions decrying "cultural appropriation" are good, propaganda and negative depictions is bad and etc etc, but most of the time what is deemed as "cultural appropriation" in media has little to no ill-will and I'm sick of it being treated as the worst evil in the world. No fun allowed.
This isn’t the thread for it so I’ll keep it brief but viewing WW2 as this holy crusade against Nazism is post war revisionism.