>>79301563I don't so much mind this idea of a more complex morality that can exist in fiction, and likely should, because some stories don't work with cartoon villains with paper thin motivations. However, I have several other problems with their reasoning.
>Why can't you just talk to the monsters in doom?!Because sometimes, that's not the fucking point. You're playing a video game about shooting. Shoot the fucking monsters. We're playing an RPG about hacking and slashing through dungeons. There's no time to give therapy to every goblin and orc who jumps out and attacks. It's just not feasible for every game to have a complex and nuanced interaction system where you carefully explore the beliefs and ideals of every fucking thing you have to fight.
>If you have racism in your game, it will make people racistThis is just fucking stupid and it relies on the belief that people are empty vessels waiting to be filled up with the values of whatever fiction they engage with... Only it's taking the leap in logic in assuming that everyone else will see an orc and assume that it's a nigger allegory and that they are supposed to understand that playing the game is instructing them to hate niggers. No one fucking works like that. If someone wants to hate niggers, they're going to do it and they're going to back it up by the latest chimpout happening down the street.
>Games are responsible for reflecting society, so they need to all have the proper goodthink, right side of history opinionsHobbies do not exist in service to The Greater Good™ and this is unironically GamerGate-tier shit. Self-titled intellectuals talking down to gaming community because they believe all fiction, entertainment, and hobbies has a duty to fulfill as part of the glorious united faggot party's social revolution to uplift and improve the lives of all non-white, non-straight, non-male peoples in the world. Fuck off.
