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I'm really developing a violent reaction to the "video games are escapism" line.
Like, that's all the art form is to you? A means to escape your life and turn off those dumbass noises in your head for a while?
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escape from what, exactly? 
People who hide behind the word "escapism" are absolutely the sort of people who will go off on a rant about how places like China or Russia or [insert target country here] are full of unthinking drones that wouldn't dream of contradicting the status quo. :projection:
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What a dumbass. Not only did he want to reduce art to a distraction, but his analysis of the war is also completely wrong. What no material analysis does to a mf
Common Nazi L
Bro thought the HOI 4 wiki was a tactical handbook
Maybe morale fell low because people were starving, and no amount if teeevee is gonna change that. Fuckin idealists always end up as nazis I swear.
That's what the Bolsheviks want you to think. In reality, Germany was one apolitical video game away from establishing the Kaiserreich over Europe.
Don't trans people have the right to escape from transphobia also? Flip it on their heads.
They would say that trans people not coming up at all would be an escape from transphobia lol