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by François M Arouet
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There are plenty of reasons to be concerned with modern video games.
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Some promote murder and armed robbery, others the frequenting of hookers and the selling of drugs.
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In popular games like “God of War”, “Grand Theft Auto”, and “The Witcher”, sexual activity with prostitutes is used as a means to unlock rewards and boost player skills!
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Popular fighting and war games encourage players to gut enemies with steak knives, rewarding “kill-shots” and other sorts of graphic and gratuitously senseless violence with points, secret levels and increased firepower.
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Beheading someone in one game, for example, will reward you with “points and unlocked skills”, while just simply killing someone won’t. .There are even moral “dilemmas” that enable you to choose between saving children or slaying them!! Yes, that is truly monstrous and evil, I know….
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Video games that glorify “virtual” killing, robbery and sex, even those that have killing in their monikers, are nothing to fear according to our elites.They regularly thumb their noses up at the idea that video games can have a negative impact on impressionable children – on young males in particular.Meanwhile they call for an end to gun violence in schools and legislation demanding stricter gun control, which only punishes law-abiding citizens.
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In a “Call of Duty” game, for example, the programmers put the user in a firefight in Afghanistan, and in at least one instance put the player in the position of deciding whether or not to gun down innocent civilians in an airport or turn on the terrorists.
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There are entire games that have us murdering Germans, killing Russians and gunning down the innocent.
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Apparently, while Black Lives Matter to George Soros (LOL), Afghan lives and those of the people our oppressors need us to hate (Russians, “Nazis”, and white men in general) don’t matter….
In fact, they do matter to them! We should ENJOY killing them!
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As the brilliant Mark Dice would say, “Oh, what’s this?”
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Jewish New Yorker author, Simon Parkin writes,
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“Where Call of Duty: WWII focusses on the personal and politically vanilla motivations of its onscreen characters, another game, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, deals explicitly with the theme of resistance.
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Like Philip K. Dick’s novel “The Man in the High Castle,” the game imagines an alternative reality in which Hitler has won the war and invaded the United States. Jack-booted German officers and hood-wearing Klansmen patrol the streets of America by day, and the game goes out of its way to portray them not as mere pop-up targets for the trigger-happy but as cruel, morally decrepit deviants who must be stopped because of what they stand for.
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This gives Wolfenstein II a resonance with the contemporary political landscape that its creators couldn’t have imagined when they began development. The recent rise of nationalism in Europe and North America has emboldened the far right to such an extent that conservative pizza-makers feel the need to publicly demand that Fascists stop buying their products.
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*** JdN: Wolfenstein video of “arrogant Nazi officer”
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Thanks to the movement’s successful co-opting of young, disenfranchised men—a big video-game demographic—the use of Nazis as cannon fodder feels, ludicrously, somehow transgressive and confrontational.
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If Call of Duty’s marketing has stopped short of making explicit its resonance with contemporary events, Wolfenstein II has followed through. A viral campaign staged on Twitter encouraged players to “punch Nazis,” a dig at the white nationalist Richard Spencer, who was famously punched on Inauguration Day, and at the many white-liberal think pieces that have since suggested that reasoned debate is the appropriate response to an ideology premised on violent racial exclusion. The game’s tagline, “Make America Nazi-Free Again,” makes clear its developers’ feelings on Donald Trump.”
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Yep, this is in fact how these evil bastards think…
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Can you imagine the outcry if they gave gamers the opportunity to kneel on the neck of a black felon in a video game?
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Or asked players to kill off gangs of feral blacks guilty of committing violent crime in your neighborhood?
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How about acted as a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent where you were tasked with killing drug smugglers and coyotes and given a “moral dilemma” between deciding to kill trafficked Mexican kids or bring them back to their parents?
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It is not like there wouldn’t be a market for these sorts of games….
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Hating Germans and Russians – people we have not been at war with for generations – enough to enjoy killing them in a video game is the result of evil propaganda and incited hatred, while wanting to kill Mexican drug smugglers, people traffickers, urban youths terrorizing cities, would be the result of a reasoned animosity!
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Pretty much everyone knows someone who has fallen victim to drugs or themselves felt threatened walking around the “wrong side of town” at night.
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But games that encourage violence against people we often have a genuine reason to harbor ill will for, would never be produced, (nor do I personally think they should be).
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Some lives, as we have come to learn, just happen to matter more than others.
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Just as our oppressors have ignored the blatantly misogynistic lyrics of black rappers while simultaneously pushing the #MeToo movement, our rulers have selectively ignored the 200 billion dollar a year VIOLENT-VIDEO-GAME industry – even encouraged it as you read in the excerpt from the New Yorker I referenced earlier.
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Big Tech giants – the self-appointed arbiters of morality – have been just as hypocritical, allowing rappers who “sing” about murder and rape to roam free online, while banning people who question the recent fraudulent election.
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But our favorite platform, Facebook, has had enough, it seems!! (sarcasm)
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With all of the group pages that promote pedophilia and sodomy, lionize rappers that promote wanton murder, and advertise films that push the sexualization of children, there was one group that formed in support of a popular video game this past year that simply took things TOO far!!!
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Polygon Entertainment, by way of MSN, reported that “a group of die-hard Fallout 76 fans (that’s the name of the relatively non-violent – by today’s norms – platform game) logged onto their Facebook group page to find that their usual stomping grounds had been suspended from Facebook — for the third time since October. It’s crucial that communities built around online games have a place to gather, organize, and coordinate outside of the game itself, but the Free States Militia is finding that’s harder than they ever could have realized.”
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Yeah. “Crucial” gamers have a place to “gather”, but NOT patriots who DARE question the election and their rulers, eh, Reuters?
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The article continued, “The Free States Militia is a popular and sociable group in Fallout 76, whose members take part in the game’s grand role-play wars and social events. They’ve been removed from Facebook twice by the platform’s moderation system for breach of use. Without adequate communication from Facebook, the Free States players have assumed that their recent suspension is tied to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.
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The Free States are an actual faction in Fallout 76. After the nuclear war and fall of American civilization, the Free States banded together to keep an independent presence in Appalachia, free of the tyranny of factions like the Enclave or the Brotherhood of Steel.
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The ‘Big Boss’ of the Free States council, who plays under the handle Non_Serviam79, spoke to Polygon over DMs about the unique problem the group faces.
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Non_Serviam79, whose real name is Bobby, chose to stay on Facebook after the first moderation issue in October of 2020. ‘Facebook is unfortunately the easiest platform to reach thousands of people at once, and we will no longer have that asset,” he notes. The Free States Militia was in the middle of a big give-away with other role-play groups, and now they have no way to promote that.
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Their Twitter page, by comparison, has just over 440 followers. ‘We will be moving to Discord, and our team is designing it as we speak,’ says Bobby. While Discord is an excellent chat client, it lacks promotional and networking features that role-play groups have come to rely on with Facebook.
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The Free States Militia has not been given a full explanation for the suspension, nor have they been able to speak to a human being at Facebook about it. Bobby provided a screenshot of the shutdown, which reads: ‘You can’t comment until Feb 7. You have posted things that don’t follow our Community Standards more than once.’
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Facebook has policies against ‘violence and criminal behavior,’ which includes incitement, discussions of public harm, and ‘organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence.’ Bobby denies that the Free States Militia violated these policies.
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‘The Facebook page is 100% Fallout related,’ says Bobby. ‘I’d say 90% of the page is lore. We write our stories in line with 76’s Free States Militia faction. 5% is group events, and 5% are in-game photos. [We write] about our individual characters and their adventures in the wasteland.’
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The Free States Militia has tried to keep things friendly for Facebook. ‘At first we figured the word ‘militia’ was the issue,’ Bobby says. The group tried scrambling the word with special characters, with combinations like m
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