game’s two main enemy factions, the WLF and the seraphites are clearly based on the IDF and Palestinians respectively. The IDF analogue are written to be dicks but a somewhat rounded depiction, the Palestinian analogue are a bunch of super religious cult members that marry their daughters off to their elder men and exile and try to kill their trans kids.
writer of the game is a zionist liberal that felt ashamed at the fascist anger he felt back in the 2000s over IDF settlers being killed in self defense, so instead of doing self crit about that he was like “ill show the gamers they would have been just as mad as me!” and manufactured the sequel’s narrative to be like
spoiler
joel murdered -> bet ur mad about that lol -> second half of the game you play as enemy -> wow wasnt their anger justified and your anger justified as well??? -> cycles of revenge bad mmkay story set upon the stage of the IDF and Palestinian analogues
honestly not what i expected from the Discourse i figured it’d actually be about how one group taking another’s land was actually good lol. that still sounds like some gross equivocating libshit tho
quickest tl;dr i can do:
game’s two main enemy factions, the WLF and the seraphites are clearly based on the IDF and Palestinians respectively. The IDF analogue are written to be dicks but a somewhat rounded depiction, the Palestinian analogue are a bunch of super religious cult members that marry their daughters off to their elder men and exile and try to kill their trans kids.
writer of the game is a zionist liberal that felt ashamed at the fascist anger he felt back in the 2000s over IDF settlers being killed in self defense, so instead of doing self crit about that he was like “ill show the gamers they would have been just as mad as me!” and manufactured the sequel’s narrative to be like
spoiler
joel murdered -> bet ur mad about that lol -> second half of the game you play as enemy -> wow wasnt their anger justified and your anger justified as well??? -> cycles of revenge bad mmkay story set upon the stage of the IDF and Palestinian analogues
honestly not what i expected from the Discourse i figured it’d actually be about how one group taking another’s land was actually good lol. that still sounds like some gross equivocating libshit tho
thanks for the summary