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Seriously. Every form of entertainment has baked-in political assumptions, and that definitely includes #ttrpg . You might choose not to examine them, but this is an active choice on your part, and you don't get to pretend that your entertainment is "free of politics".

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You can tell what someone’s politics are by what they consider political.

I was astonished at some of the Steam reviews of Outer Worlds after playing it. People proper pissed off that their experience had been ruined because there’s a female side character with an optional side quest where she wants a date with another woman. Like how thoroughly filled with hate do you have to be as a person, to be fine with all the mass killing but suddenly get a moralistic high horse about a fictional character going on a dinner date you don’t approve of.

Sad that Steam are making a comment of their own by allowing those reviews to stay up.

[–] Logical@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

While I haven't read those reviews, I think the implications of Steam removing reviews would be worse, since they would effectively be manipulating the user score of a game. User reviews are just that, user reviews. The score should indicate what users think, whatever their reasons may be for thinking it, no?

I don't disagree with the rest of what you said though.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

How DARE you make your game try to reflect reality.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

Steam definitely has a libertarian streak, seemingly. I wish I had started switching over to GOG a lot sooner.