• NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
    2051·
    23 days ago

    “balanced and unbiased take on WWII” after calling something “anti-nazi slop” is hard to even call a dog whistle, it’s more like a fog horn.

    • MotoAsh@piefed.socialBannedEnglish
      695·
      23 days ago

      I ‘think’ there’s a more innocent interpretation in there of something like, “If you’re going to do Nazis right now, it might be worth making them more than a cliche villain to spray lead at so people can see how intrusive and insidious the ideology is.”

      buuuuut “we don’t need more anti-nazi slop shoved down our throats” is one hell of a way to say that xP

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        10·
        22 days ago

        That would be a bit more of a valid interpretation if it weren’t for the fact that Wolfenstein is set in an alternate universe where the Nazis win the war.

        You can hardly make them the classic ‘inevitably going to fail’ villain when they’ve been in power for the last 60 years.

        Maybe they could add a scene where one of them is stroking a white cat although honestly that’s pretty much the Wolfenstein aesthetic already.

    • FunkyCheese@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      324·
      22 days ago

      maybe if america was kinder to their veterans so they didn’t shoot themselves… they’d know more about what war does to people

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          173·
          22 days ago

          If you going to have a hot take it’s got to make sense.

          The US definitely does not worship their veterans they claim to and act like they do but then they make them homeless.

            • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
              61·
              22 days ago

              Except I’m not American. There are subtle hints.

              Also why are you talking about yourself in the third person. Did you perhaps mean to switch accounts?

                • Natanael
                  4·
                  22 days ago

                  Replying with this in a thread about fighting nazis is pretty tone deaf. Nazis never looted and terrorized anybody according to you…?

            • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              21 days ago

              I regret replying to you in good faith previously, I see now you’re a bot or something designed to make progressives look bad. Blocking and moving on.

            • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
              41·
              22 days ago

              They’re talking about WWII specifically, the one time we incidently ended up on the right side

                • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
                  3·
                  22 days ago

                  Where TF did he talk about “WW2 specifically”

                  The subject is the guys who fought the nazis and would have “educated” the dipshits openly supporting them.

                  I am aware the US didn’t help the USSR liberate europe out of some moral compulsion, hence “incidentally”.

        • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          21 days ago

          This has all the edge of a teenager who just discovered a local library book on socialism and is on the way to join their local tankie cosplay convention.

          You don’t win over anyone but clones of yourself with dumb takes like this. We have a system, it has military, many, many people who control our entire society support the idea of having a military.

          Yes that military has been used to do bad things. So have many other institutions, arguably causing far worse harm. You want to see better outcomes? Work to reform the system that directs this military and other systems instead of attacking the people themselves. You need the people to affect change, you don’t fix anything by hurling a rock at someone’s head for existing.

          I swear the left has it’s share of absolutely delusional chuds who just want to hate.

          Edit: do not engage people, there are people who are literally paid to troll like this, adopting the most brain-dead takes and pushing them as representational of leftism. It’s deliberate, this user above I blocked is one of the turds that we need to flush. Block, ignore, sentence them to the shadow realm of silence.

  • jontree255@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    23 days ago

    Most people are saying “fuck yeah let me butcher more Nazis.” you fucking chudd.

    Edit: LMAO they have replies disabled. The true sign of a free speech warrior.

  • Godort@lemmy.ca
    54·
    23 days ago

    They’re aware that Wolfenstein is the same game series that had mecha-hitler right?

    It’s not a work meant for nuanced analysis about the complex political structures of WWII

    • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
      19·
      23 days ago

      In fairness, it’s a bit myopic to bring Mechahitler, the Super mutant, or even the Angel of Death into it as it’s the earliest one-and-a-half games in the series.

      RtCW dealt with the resistance fight in more detail, and the Machinegames Wolfy games went full anti-Nazi in the best possible way.

      I still haven’t a fucking clue what story Wolfenstein 2009 was trying to tell though, but I still enjoyed it.

      • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
        16·
        23 days ago

        Also in fairness, we now know that Mechahitler was just Grok all along.

  • Lena@gregtech.eu
    52·
    23 days ago

    I bought a wolfenstein bundle on steam when it was on sale just because I felt like killing nazis lol. Stayed for the plot.

  • mohab@piefed.socialEnglish
    32·
    23 days ago

    God, I disagree with people who say things are just as bad as pre-WWII; it’s much worse. Not that no atrocity preceded WWII, but the Nazis weren’t reenacting a relatively recent one play-by-play, these people are.

    And if they’re not stopped, the outcome will be much worse.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    23 days ago

    Fallout 4, Outcasts and Remnants mod lets us go back in time, slaughter Nazis and then kill Hitler. I always run this mod for that reason. I take the explosive minigun and gib them all. Except Hitler, he gets the tactical barstool.

    Also, anti-Nazi slop is one of the few slops I don’t mind.

    Finally, fuck this asshole, whoever he is. No, not “everyone” is thinking that, mostly just you and some of your loser online friends.

  • dipcart@lemmy.world
    7·
    23 days ago

    I love that the game isn’t even out yet and its already anti-nazi slop. Who knows, what if Microsoft makes the game about saving Nazis so they can get a tax cut??? The game ends during the tutorial because the BJ Blazcowicz is rightfully killed because he was a domestic terrorist?? Not so anti-nazi slop now

      • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
        13·
        23 days ago

        In my experience the fallout community is mostly anti-capitalist and anti-fascist because, well, you know. The theme of the game and everything.

        Of course there’s always the poor media literacy people who love the enclave or legion a little too much.

        I’m actually curious to know what mod this guy devs for? If that part was real anyway. Just so I know to steer clear, ya dig?

        Edit: I did some minor snooping around bluesky and it looks like this person claims to be a former dev for FNC (which others say is untrue) and the only real project they’ve been part of (from what I can see) was Fallout Ashfall, which they apparently got removed from ~2 years ago and they’ve been harassing those involved since.

        Probably more to the story than that, but glad to confirm that this isn’t a prolific member of the community.

          • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
            3·
            23 days ago

            If FO3 was your first fallout it makes a bit more sense to like BoS tho, they’re a lot chiller in 3.

            But yeah I agree, the games make it clear the BoS is mostly awful lmao