• Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    If you pretend for a second this is a HoI4-like historical simulation, it’d be really interesting to see what the american dictatorship is going be like. Are we talking populist murder-happy forever-revolution? Shut-the-fuck-up-or-else secret police state? A digital surveillance state with never seen before levels of control? The suspense!

    Alas, we live on this planet. Bummer.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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      2 hours ago

      Just because fascism was depicted in a video game doesn’t mean it wasn’t real.

      If there’s anything to fault games like HoI4 for, it would be that it doesn’t really depict how bad fascism is, it’s basically just choosing which team you’re on and which buffs you’ll get. I think the devs just expected people to know how bad it is from understanding history, but maybe people really do think of it like choosing a team.