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First, rightwing ideologies have been overrepresented and dominant throughout the history of video games. Although affected by context, video games have long focused on the expulsion of “aliens” (Space Invaders to XCOM), fear of impure infection (Half-Life to The Last of Us), border control (Missile Commander to Plants vs Zombies), territory acquisition (Command & Conquer to Splatoon), empire building (Civilization to Tropico), princess recovery (Mario to Zelda), and restoration of natural harmony (Sonic to FarmVille).
1 posted on 03/12/2018 9:09:08 PM PDT by fluorescence
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Well, the games did help. Maybe they helped much.

But the legacy was left in many other ways, too. There was a group of “post-feminist” girls following articles written by some of us during the mid-’90s, and there have been successive groups ever since.

At first, some of those who lacked enough contact with their own fathers followed parts of our (conservative men’s) writings and behaviors to render into a few style-related trends of their own.

Since then, they, and even many young men, have become ever closer to assuming the philosophies of our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers among common Americans. The latest wave is near attaining the perspective of our nation’s founding fathers.

A few of them have become lost along the way to the dangers of vices and social mistakes left behind by our own generational peers (very saddening). But some of those who managed to stay on track are wonderfully tough.

Something surprising has also arisen over the past few years. Some of the current crop of young men and women are citizens of several other countries and are excited from educating themselves quite thoroughly in early American history. Amazingly courageous young folks. Some have have even come to risk their lives against really nasty characters of the radical left for the purpose of educating more young people.

I’m proud of them. The problems needing correction could have been solved within one generation.


46 posted on 03/13/2018 12:52:04 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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That is, the problems needing correction could *not* have been solved within one generation. A few of us knew that, accepted it and knew that we would personally pay for spending much time for the rest of our lives on it.


47 posted on 03/13/2018 12:54:12 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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The rise of the far left has given rise to video games that have given rise to the far right. Fixed, ok I want my Pulitzer now.


48 posted on 03/13/2018 1:51:45 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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If any thing video games have all a leftist slant in all their narratives

Secondly it is not the fantasy or stories in books or games that make mass killers, but the very atheistic materialist feeling these murderers have for attaining the kinds of privileges actors and politicians attain in real life!!!

All these kids hate fantasy, santa claus and religion. Even in Islam the Kalif is deemed to be atheistic whereas the followers are to be contented with heavenly privileges


51 posted on 03/13/2018 4:42:04 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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Most players per Wiki:
Call of Duty, Minecraft, Legend of Zelda, Mario Bros.

What do they have in common? Individualism. Your score is yours, and not the collective’s score. My grandson plays Minecraft ... a lot, probably too much ... It is male chauvinist. The females are there for the entertainment of the males, even though there is zero sex.


53 posted on 03/13/2018 5:07:00 AM PDT by spintreebob
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The guardian is communist. Nothing printed in it is worth anything.


54 posted on 03/13/2018 5:29:18 AM PDT by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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It sounds like they resent video games because of their appeal to men. If the majority of customers had been women, no one would dare criticize.

This article is the reason I avoid liberal media, which is always intellectually flawed.


56 posted on 03/13/2018 7:51:35 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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