Imagine thinking New Vegas is friendly to the far right.
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I think MGRR is weirder. I can at least see how Caesar might fool someone into thinking he's not a criticism of their ideology (helps that I have a close friend who's leftist but thinks Caesar is preferable to the NCR an House).
But I can't IMAGINE looking at fucking Senator Armstrong being like "literally me" and not realizing he's a parody of your shitty ideology.
lol thinking any Metal Gear is friendly to the far right...
Basically a case study in how parody from the left must be cartoonish and expository lest it be misinterpreted by mainstream Westerners.
But MGR:R's parody IS cartoonish and expository
So is fallout 3 and yet 
I have a close friend who's leftist but thinks Caesar is preferable to the NCR an House
They've been watching this video I presume
I always end out going Yes Man cause I can fucking solo all thee armies in their entirety at once without using a stimpak by endgame. I decide who lives and who dies in the wasteland. Stands to reason that I'm in fucking charge.
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Liberty Prime
Wait, that was Fallout 3. All the 3D Fallouts might as well be the same game to me.
Ha right? I get 3 and NV mixed up all the time
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A bunch of comments going "buddy you might be trans." Beyond the fallout nv meme like most of the things on this list either focused on girls, allow you to play as a girl or are games where you can basically ignore the protagonists gender. This would also explain the lack of The Witcher from someone with a polish flag in bio. 
Don't know most of these but: aren't Dark Souls, FO:NV, and MG:R stereotypical eggy transfemme games?
A ton of people in the replies were telling them they might be trans lol.
Chuds liking fallout is proof no amount of subtext is enough for some people. You have to explicitly bash people over the head with your intended message if you dont want people to interpret it as exactly the opposite.
Fallout 3 has a 100 foot tall robot made by the US government that shoots lasers out of its eyes while screaming "I hate communism". A group of rogue soldiers with a technology fetish managed to take over this robot in a dramatic scene where said 100 foot tall robot stomps through the streets of the nuclear blasted ruins of Washington D.C. fighting off the remains of the federal government. Chuds unironically love liberty prime anyway. There is no bashing over the heads blatant enough for these people
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plus MG:R pretty explicitly has the protagonist fighting against the US government and global imperialism. The first mission is trying to prevent a left of center African head of state from being assassinated!
Only a true patriot would fight the DEEEEEEEP STATE! 
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Cyberpunk where you can make a female masculine voice character or a male feminine voice charecter have straight, gay, and bisexual relations is a...... 
far right typed game.
The cyberpunk genre is pretty clearly a criticism of capitalism, but the main story in the game is basically a libertarians response to that, so they’re not totally off the mark.
pirated it since 2.0 and PL hit and you're pretty much spot on. "corporations are bad because they control everything, but not because capitalism itself is bad, i just want to blow shit up by myself"
The story with a setting designed by an open communist, no less.
Why these games?
Also, what is up with Polish people?
Unfortunately, a lot of us have extra strong brainworms. Nationalism + dogmatic free-market liberalism.
Family values
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far-rightcore
EVERYTHING IS JUST AESTHETICS
by playing more hecking DARK SOVLS, my fellow CHVDS, we will RESVRRECT the IMPERIVM 
I was about to post something about media illiteracy, but on second thought it looks like a dumb attempt to claim some relatively innocuous pieces of media.
Like, no way in hell can anyone claim that MGR:R’s politics is right leaning
They just think Armstrong was actually the good guy. No I'm not kidding.
lol, they're Polish and didn't even put Witcherino Tres on their list. Is Geraldo too woke now?
It has powerful wamen so it is woke 😔
To a certain extent this is true, but less so a political ideology and more "Isolated person who is terminally online" which happens to have a 1-1 overlap with both communists and fascists.
Let's be honest, well-adjusted people are not playing HellTaker and DDLC despite them being very good games. Most people play FO:NV once or twice and think it's pretty good. They don't install 500+ mods to try to escape from the meaninglessness of existing in a society in which you can neither influence nor find comfort in. It's just an unfortunate shared characteristic between us the far-right wing.
If most people on Hexbear had a safe existence, happy childhood, and meaningful social life then they would not be here.
I had all of these things, I just have a lot of free time at my email job.
If most people on Hexbear had a safe existence, happy childhood, and meaningful social life then they would not be here.
Bro don't out me like this
If most people on Hexbear had a safe existence, happy childhood, and meaningful social life then they would not be here.
you take that back
I have those things, I just like to be right about things and ended up here by refusing more and more incorrect things.
If most people on Hexbear had a safe existence, happy childhood, and meaningful social life then they would not be here.
... Is this "Communists are just angry losers" but from the left?
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I hated the secret Helltaker ending where Malina became an Aleksandr Dugin supporter smh my head
Persona 5
The villain of most of the game is a fascist strongman (and his closest supporters - explicitly portrayed as a collection of rich and powerful people) who schemes his way to power and gains support through a "We're gonna make Japan strong" plattform.
Shin Megami Tensei and Persona often have stinky politics, especially P4 and SMT IV, but P5 is definitely among the better ones, even if the ending to the vanilla plot is kinda meh.
i played half of these, i can safely say they have nothing to do with rightwankery, lmao
this is peak diegetic essentialism lmao.
If this Xheet is bait, it's the level of bait where you smear shit in your face and go "made you angry" when other people react in any way
if this Xheet isnt bait, it's just smearing shit in one's face and thinking that's a facial wash
Surprised they went for EU4 over HOI.
Edit: Oh, I see they're Polish.
We will own the left and produce racial purity by checks notes completing simple puzzles and thirsting over .pngs of women in suits.
Helltaker is honestly less political than tetris, you do not play for ideological reasons, you play it because you're a horny idiot. I know because I'm a horny idiot.
Metal gear rising, a game were the final battle is against a fucking maga president, is a right game, well i guess I'm a little out of touch
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I only know two of the things on here
one of them is an allegory for the environmental destruction wrought by the petroleum industry
and the other is Dark Souls, which is so open to interpretation it's practically a free space
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Persona 5
The game where you use magic powers to not-
not-Shinzo Abe. Very right wing.
If we're just putting things down that we like as an aesthetic, dibs on shovel knight.
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