none of what you listed is new

yes that’s exactly the point. two of these are from the 90s, one is from like 2001. old enough to have good credit and cheap car insurance. im making fun of the title.

morrowind isn’t really that weird

no, but it blew a lot of people’s minds so i put it on the list.

continues lots of the same themes

citation needed. not that I dislike it, it just feels like the name is tacked on to an otherwise lovely CRPG.

I don’t even think he’d make it up.

lolno; space travel is hard. he’s never leaving earth, even for a recreational orbit.

I concur; we need more of this new breed of aggressively strange RPG’s, like earthbound/mother, planescape:torment, and morrowind.

proudly so, even.

what does ‘left’ mean to you, dear nazi?

maybe we should, like, do something about that?

fascism must always create more outsiders, must always create more enemies to keep control, to keep things directed.

remember, fascism appropriates genuine upset and the fact that to the privileged, equality feels like persecution. it steers itself by creating enemies to hate. remember: people’s lives are genuinely fucking miserable. there is dystopian shit happening. and all of that is really complicated, and if people stopped to think about it for five minutes, they would pull a 1789.

so they just keep adding more enemies, and more derangements like what the qanons call ‘baking’ but hitler just said was the way everyone should read books, until they live in a totally unhinged fantasy world, and any method of social control must engage with the fantasy.

tl;dr: sacrificing external allies to fuel a persecution complex, keep control, entrench the madness, keep attention off the american elites that were at least rhetorically some of the initial targets.