I find it hard to believe that your family could starve to death just from some mistakes but I might be in the “too positively biased against AES” stage of my radicalization journey
Considering the amount of lies west put in their propaganda, it’s hard to be “too positively biased” for AES.
The border and migration controls are something socialist states do to protect workers and their economies. The “your family will starve if you fuck up” or “our laws are inhumane and we don’t care; if you care you’re fired” are absolutely propaganda.
The propaganda is always projection too
It is liberal propaganda, the game is fun, though, if you ignore it. I’d recommend more The Return of Obra Dinn which is another, much more superior, video game by Lucas Pope.
Return of the Obra Dinn is probably one of the best games I’ve ever played. It is simply fantastic.
Indeed, I really loved their approach to languages and the gameplay is fantastic. I consumed it voraciously because it was so fascinating.
Very clearly obviously it’s propaganda based on the western projection that the commies were the same as Nazis and Nazis were famous for the “show your papers” thing.
Ironically the US police have always treated block people the way media represents the Nazis (and communists, inaccurately). Don’t ask Americans about why that’s ok but some old Soviet Union border guard asking for a passport was supposed to be representative of…anything more than what it always is
No, I don’t think Arstotzka is modeled after any particular country.
However, under Stalin, workers were paid for their work based on a piece-rate system, meaning that if they didn’t hit the quota, they were paid less.
This, coupled with famines caused by the mismanaged production and distribution of food, like the one in 1933, could certainly lead to a working man not being able to provide for his entire family.
There’s no need for reactionary propaganda here.
Ah, didn’t realize this was lemmygrad 😅
Just out of curiosity though, which part of my comment do you consider to be propaganda?
Btw, by my understanding a “reactionary” is a person who seeks to restore an earlier political state of society. Wouldn’t that make people who want to return to the “good old days” under Stalin the true reactionaries?
The last paragraph referencing the Holodomor, which is a hoax, and as is refuted in the breakdown I linked. I haven’t looked into the various wage systems the Soviet Union experimented with so I can’t speak to that.
To be a reactionary is to seek to conserve the current structures of power, ie. to defend capital, and in so doing to oppose revolutionary and even non-radical progressive liberal movements. It is not reactionary at all to look back on revolutionary movements in a positive light.
Reading these comments is hilarious.
If any of you took two minutes to go to Wikipedia and actually read about the games design you wouldn’t need to make all of these assumptions.Propaganda? Lmao It’s a little indie video game made by a guy in his spare time. If this is twisting all your panties in such knots I’m really afraid for you if you ever learn about the real world.
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As one person who also makes things on my own, it is a big relief to know that everything I will ever make will be completely apolitical. As a individual person is apparently incapable of bias. Or…maybe not? I’m not really working in my spare time, maybe that’s the key to being non-political?
Cone back when you actually know what you’re talking about.
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libs waltzing into one of our threads with their characteristic unearned smugness will never not be funny
Propaganda? Lmao It’s a little indie video game made by a guy in his spare time.
You heard it comrades? Just make little pieces media on your spare time and no one can ever accuse you of making communist propaganda! How convenient!
“Apoliticals” when people analyze a game and find political meanings behind it rather than mindlessly consuming it without any thought:
Sounds like you’re the one who’s flabbergasted some people actually analyse the media they consume.
Nothing is made without intent, and that includes “subconscious” intent such as repeating propaganda you have internalised, whether you realise it or not.
If this is too difficult for you I’m afraid for you if you ever learn about the real world.
He crafted the fictional nation of Arstotzka, fashioned as a totalitarian, 1982 Eastern Bloc state, with the player guided to uphold the glory of this country by rigorously checking passports and defeating those that might infiltrate it.
What was it that you wanted to show us from Wikipedia? Actually forgot it. We don’t need to know.
Honestly it has gotten to the point where if anyone mentions “glory” or “gloriousness” in context to socialism, socialist leaders or socialist states, I write it off as anticommunist jibber jabber.
Where is it set?
Arstotzka, a fictional country based off of the GDR by the looks of it.
