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I don't know why compulsory reeducation is so often considered far too "authoritarian" and cruel. Anyone who ends up like this as an adult was clearly and utterly failed by their first education. In situations like these, the most humane thing we can do to course correct is to provide them with a second education, all expenses paid. If reeducation can produce a positive outcome for the last emperor of China, then I'm sure it can do the same for gamers.

How dare they make Fallout and BioShock political... I love games with no social commentary on them at all, like Resident Evil... The Pharmacy being evil is just fun pretend stuff, it's not a commentary on capitalism in medicine at all! /s

lazy uninspired writer if you add modern day mentality and political thoughts in a fantasy game

most mainstream fantasy is based on british and european empires

most fantastical societies are still patriarchal

most people are still peasants

It's not like the seminal work of high fantasy that inspired an entire genre is actually a direct response to the author's personal trauma suffered by war or anything. It's surely not a (wee bit racist) allegory for the dangers of industrialization, industrial war, and a paean for an idyllic simpler pastoral/peasant life that never existed.

The opposite of an uninspired lazy writer is one that just panders to reactionary cishet white Epic G*mer men.

Not just the genre of fantasy, or any one genre of media for that matter. All narrative-oriented phenomena are the manifest arms of ideology: novels, movies, games, religion, advertisements, propaganda, etc. Their actual form is not what is important, but more how they fit into the bigger picture of social communication -- like how the same concept can be indicated with many different words within a language and across languages.

It's just sexy big men adventuring in space with big guns, just like Starship Troopers

you have to be the most uninspired lazy writer in existence if you add modern day mentality and political thoughts in a fucking fantasy game set in a different universe/era

True. This is why in my hopepunk future setting, humans no longer have any concept of sex or gender. Most humans are raised in communal creches and having two parents is extremely rare. Most people are also gestated in tubes, and live birth is seen as a bit old-fashioned. The human genome has been completely tampered with to make self-modification a much simpler affair, as part of the Compromise of 2189 between genemodders and children's rights activists. Humanity has eschewed the libertarian idea of terraforming Mars and are instead demolishing Ceres to make dozens of space habitats with a genetically modified ecosystem that makes predation completely unnecessary.

Or is that still too modern-day? It's kind of hard to come up with this stuff when authors have already written about voluntary human hiveminds and non-sentient human-level intelligences. Oh who am I kidding, a girl kissing another girl is probably scifi to this freak.