Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social

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Sarcasmorator @sarcasmorator.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 04:37 UTC

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Joe Biden's Evaporating Campaign Funds @4thwallguide.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:45 UTC

The opening scene of FFVII is literally eco terrorism 🤦🏿‍♂️

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J u s t i n @quillmonger.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 08:52 UTC

The company's name literally translates to "all encompassing god" and you're blowing up stand ins for reactors that are sucking like life out of the planet.

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HumbleDad - Art @humbledadgames.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 13:27 UTC

It's bait Anyone who's played FF7 knows beyond a shadow of a doubt it's about the horrors of man. Their impact on not only man but the environment, big corpo, militarized government, fighting the power and............... Magic lol

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ph00tbag @ph00tbag.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 11:55 UTC

Yes, they did. In 1997.

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@crithon.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 07:35 UTC

to be fair, back in 1997, there were people who returned the PS1 disc, "sorry, I didn't know there would be reading." There has always been dumb people in this world.

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thislittlelog @thislittlelog.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 16:17 UTC

The Final Fantasy games are about getting powerful enough to destroy gods, demiurges and dictators, of course they're political! That's the point!

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Mgay Ultra @altmer.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 20, 2024 at 07:15 UTC

they smack you over the head with the message of vii in the first minute of the original too its as subtle as a brick to the face how tf honestly amazed theyd touch it because of the cast being fairly diverse.

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PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 07:19 UTC

What's funny here is that in Remake they kinda turned the eco-terrorism button down a bit too. The original was much more unabashed!

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McThrill plays Clawhammer Banjo @mcthrill.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 07:27 UTC

Starship Troopers is the only story these people actually got the message of, and they are *still* fuckin‘ pissed that Paul Verhoeven dared to make a satire of it.

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Piki @pikithewolf.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 23:31 UTC

I would say that the only way VII’s themes could get any clearer was it a character looked at the camera and said them in capital text. But Barrett already does that.

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josh [commissions open] @kingadahipsters.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:25 UTC

WHAT. HOW. HOW DID THEY MISS WHAT AVALANCHE WAS ABOUT?

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Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 03:48 UTC

... .... whoever posts a comment like this has clearly never played the original

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TeslaGauss1884 & Nounours Fatigué @teslagauss1884.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 09:15 UTC

Oo right winger illiteracy of fiction level legendary oO The hell I guess for this person the movie "they live" is too subtile Probably the same person that think rage against the machine is about hating your printer 🤦🏻‍♀️

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@outspokenhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 11:59 UTC

You start the game by blowing up a power plant, dude.

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Daphné (she/her) @daphne36.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 14:40 UTC

"turn" 🙄

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Joel/kingjder02/whatever @joelsftw.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:22 UTC

Did they really not pay attention to the story before? That reply just hurts my mind

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もえろ！イナズマキック!! @lmfsilva.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 24, 2024 at 00:57 UTC

Either a piece of local Sony advertising of a review had a phrase like "lead a team of eco-terrorists to save the planet" in 1997. I don't think people are getting dumber they're just getting into incredible ornate forms of denial.

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Red @prettypinkpansy.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:08 UTC

one of the most memorable and memed lines of the original is "the planet's dyin, cloud"... wh.........

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Everything is Public Health @everythingisph.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 04:34 UTC

Someone write a thesis about this, the link between political ideology and media literacy

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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:29 UTC

im stuck on the concept of "save-the-planet propaganda" like just the very idea that one should in general, being read as propaganda

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yͤ winged cloud of talquinia @cloudtools.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 27, 2024 at 19:54 UTC

Everyone suffering the consequences of a handful of people buying into prosperity gospel is the real purgatory

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Octonary Character 𓅄 @jhaedin.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 04:35 UTC

As children, conservatives were typically found jumping head first from the couch into coffee tables.

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Toreole @toreole.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 08:24 UTC

The same type of guy who would claim that squid game was about how bad communism was

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Silenus @sonofsilenus.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:42 UTC

I'm just processing this by rocking back and forth endlessly chanting "it's bait it's bait they can't be serious it's bait"

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💙 panapeeps 🐦 @panapeeps.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:35 UTC

this is so.... like i've never playef ff7 and even *i* know the clear "hey the environment's good actually" themes in the story hello?? 😭😭

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itsjustjon @itsjustjon.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 04:22 UTC

Wait until they find out what happens at Don Conero's mansion

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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @adaoverlord.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 07:55 UTC

Like this is "when did rage against the machine get politcal" levels of completely having zero media lit. Id even say less than zero. (Costello rift begins)

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ShadeFawks 🏳️‍🌈🍰 @shadefawks.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 19:12 UTC

This is the worst take I've seen since "I hope they don't add politics to this game (Metal Gear Solid ∆)"

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 20, 2024 at 13:27 UTC

I refuse to believe that this person played FF7 One of the first scenes is Barrett yelling, "The planet's dyin', Cloud!"

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𝕯𝖔𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖆 𝕯𝖊𝖘𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗 @c0ffin.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 13:34 UTC

Wait until they hear about all the god killing.

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Roque'd Fang @roquefang.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:27 UTC

My hands are reaching out yet there is no throat to strangle here. ... I should make some bread. Get some stress out like that.

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Dusty Yote @dustyyote.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:14 UTC

I combined "The planet's dyin', Cloud!" and ""It's cause of that &%*%* pizza, that people underneath are sufferin'" and was about to say my favorite line was "The planet's &%*%* dyin', Cloud!" Both tend to run to the same sentiment, though.

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James Mackinnon @jamackinn.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 03:02 UTC

I sorta came to this realization after Tim Pool tried to hype his music that one time. They have no ability to understand structure as it relates to art. This is also why they suck at comedy.

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Paul @pdthorn.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:47 UTC

completely deviates from the source material, clearly.

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TheSoundOfChildrenScreamingHasBeenRemoved @malikdama.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 03:25 UTC

*geese chasing human meme yelling "What was the first mission in the game!"*

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Still Got a Little Bit of Clairvoyance @kevinnelson84.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 05:09 UTC

As long as Captain Planet remains anti-Woke, we'll be all right

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hummus woodsworth @tromboneben.com [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 01:47 UTC

this is really the perfect capstone for a long day of “is this real?!?”

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 13:14 UTC

They assume there is precisely one objectively correct way to interpret anything and they know what it is, anyone suggesting any alternative must be deliberately lying to try and confuse them.

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Oomi 🐙🦉⚽ @oomi.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 20:21 UTC

If I'm really generous, perhaps this person has never played FF7 and is one of myriad people that mouths off about things they know nothing about. But wow.

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Axl M @captain-bleuten.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 08:33 UTC

What's next, political criticism on the lack of ethics of the military industrial complex in Fallout?

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Frisky Dingus 🍉 @friskydingus.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 07:19 UTC

These absolute losers are trying to start a new gamergate because that's the last time they felt something. Pathetic individuals.

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Millie @hiide0us.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 10:35 UTC

Oh god it's like that guy that complained that Metal Gear was getting political...

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John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 01:52 UTC

Even money on whether the person who wrote that is more than 15 years old.

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Sarama Burwani @ Dawntrail 7.0 @saramaburwani.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:23 UTC

the real thing ff7 was propaganda for was "wearing a shitload of belts"

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Goldstein the Hon @goldstein.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 01:52 UTC

I would love to know what they thought ffvii was about.

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mayonnaise boy @paintedsky.ca [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:01 UTC

Most things conservatives do just sadden me but this one is just funny. I will laugh as they get zero value out of any/every piece of media they encounter

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Kanna Banana 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇷 @kanna-banana.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 01:52 UTC

do u think they believe that captain planet is literally about teenagers who summon a blue man

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Disaster Millennial @disastermillennial.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 01:45 UTC

lol, lmao

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Vinchenzo the Jackal @vinchenzojackal.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 16:13 UTC

These fuckers never learned what it was about the first time if they played it then, and if they learned about it now they refuse to acknowledge anything they hear about the past of it, they only listen to what their idols tell them to believe, and never believe anything else they see and hear.

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 23:24 UTC

This has to be fake. ...Damn you Poe.

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Juan @dislex666.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 05:29 UTC

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Tom (kid codger) O'Neill @doctecazoid.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 10:25 UTC

Speaking as someone most definitely not steeped in the video game realm, this thread is vastly engaging. Thoughtful analyses all around, with some snappy one-liners sprinkled throughout. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Chris - Carnage Creations @chriscarnage.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 04:45 UTC

For real?

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Sam @plaidvamp.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 11:18 UTC

Gotta be bait right? Right??

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Pierre 🀄 @limica64.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 08:29 UTC

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Kyle Woodley ⭐️⭐️⭐️ @kylewoodley.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:33 UTC

@chrisb2.bsky.social

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Yapper 5000 - 퓨크 @puke.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 20, 2024 at 02:59 UTC

This activated my fight or flight. And it wasn't flight.

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Tome of Silver @tomeofsilver.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 04:33 UTC

This brings me physical pain

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Orzufancylad @orzufancylad.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 03:01 UTC

"When did Final Fantasy become about environmentalism???!?" December 18, 1987.

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Yousif Nash looking for werk @vaderfan.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:48 UTC

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Tilda @calafinwe.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 20, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

Reminds me of a complaint about FFXII being too political. Every Final Fantasy I know (7, 8, 10, 12, 15) has been political.

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Red Veron @redthehaze.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 16:38 UTC

Lmao I knew people who were smarter than me who were making jokes about how Avalanche were eco-terrorists 20 years ago.

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Aerith 🔞 @kinixfox.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 21:07 UTC

Did they really bitch about people wanting to keep the planet from dying?

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Dante The K9 @dantethek9.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:20 UTC

Something inside me died while reading this.

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Sacrificial Lamb 🐑 @jellyenvy.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 21:11 UTC

this meme has been around for a long time and i hate that its still relevant

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RickinBaltimore @rickinbaltimore.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:03 UTC

Oh for fuck sake

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CJCW @cjcw.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 06:54 UTC

The game where the protagonist gets rightfully scolded for not caring enough about the environment apparently wasn't blunt enough

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CptHA86 @cptha86.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

SMH...

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Smeg @smeg.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 12:56 UTC

I refuse to believe that this one isn't a bit

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Tagger @tgscenic.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:20 UTC

Oh no! They just found out all stories are woke! Who writes a story where everyone is angry all the time beating the hate to death while living on a dead rock. Seems like it's going to lack interest.

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AJLZarychta @ajlzarychta.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 04:40 UTC

I just...what? Next they're going to start asking why Upton Sinclair's work suddenly seems so much like pro-union propaganda.

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Kennedy Reading 🍉 @kennedy-reading.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 03:53 UTC

Whoa... that's wild.

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Connor Almond 🏳️‍⚧️ @gph.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 01:54 UTC

ROTFLMAO like, "you can't brainwash me into wanting to save the planet I live on, SE!!" ?????

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David @david.uncensored.zip [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:39 UTC

when I was a teen playing FF7 I thought the environmental themes was a little overbearing at times. boy was I fucking wrong

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Jonny Lobo @jonnylobo.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 12:26 UTC

It's funny the one upside to zero media literacy is there's a lot of movies/games they could otherwise enjoy as mindless entertainment were it not for some influencer telling them to be angry about it. Hence, something 'woke' from their childhood isn't a problem, but a remake 20+ years later is.

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Lunao Azurus 🔜 Fursonacon @lunao623.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 22:00 UTC

People like that I feel don't really play video games, at least beyond CoD and sports games. Play Final Fantasy or any Tales Of games and you will find how much context there is.

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@greenwichita.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:38 UTC

My sister in law….

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Jean-Eusèbe von BB67000 @jean-eusebe.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 05:57 UTC

Wow...

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Nicholas G Cameron @ngcameron.com [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 01:55 UTC

I'm going to become the fucking joker, are you kidding me

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Captain stuffmcbluer (Angry Block Era) @stuffmcbluer.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 07:03 UTC

The kind of people that dont understand against what kind of machine „rage against the machine“ raged at

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Farren Croí-Spéir 🦊🇮🇪🍥🎮 @farrenskyheart.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:55 UTC

Oh boy do I got a bridge to sell them

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𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑠 @petestaiano.com [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 01:52 UTC

these people love games so much but haven’t even read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia

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DestroKhorne @destrokhorne.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 15:21 UTC

Wtf ?!

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anthony @panecasio.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 01:52 UTC

just start making up fake FF7 party members and ask them which one was their favourite

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Myles to Go Before I Sleep Lobdell @myleslobdell.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 27, 2024 at 19:48 UTC

I enjoy the conservative admission that saving the planet is inherently a leftist plot.

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Richard Moon @rmoonhill.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 04:22 UTC

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Andrew Waterloo @andrewwaterloo.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 04:36 UTC

A conservative movie reviews are basically just a lot of anger over misreads of generally simple scenes. It's like they'll watch Invasion of the Body Snatchers and complain about how some of the characters are acting robotic.

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Advrik @advrik.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:44 UTC

I literally have a dozen screenshots of my playthrough of Remake where the characters dialogue draws parallels and thus comments on real world politics and the use of media to control the people.

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Lucy ⟭⟬⁷🎤🎸Ⓐ🏴🌱🛸👻🔮 @pandainlingerie.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 24, 2024 at 11:27 UTC

They all need to watch this excellent video on the basic foundations of having media literacy:
youtu.be/5VtjZHC5Qyk?...

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APrioriGoof @apriorigoof.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 03:18 UTC

Is Avatar the thing that resists this? Or do they think it’s actually about powerful individuals fighting against encroaching rules or something?

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Nails the Tabaxi 🍉 @nailsthetabaxi.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 13:29 UTC

I can’t tell what’s funnier, the idea that the original FF7 wasn’t political or the idea that having a planet to live on is.

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ADK @andrewdk.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 03:54 UTC

The game starts out full on eco-terrorism followed by dudes in dresses and make up like what did you think was going to happen

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Neer @dragoneer.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 04:55 UTC

I mean, they establish this entire premise early on with Avalanche basically being "eco terrorists" fighting on the side of the planet. It's like... it's one of the first big things.

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Judith Butlerian Jihad @xanindigo.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 01:56 UTC

I'm amazed by the way some people will just publicly announce their complete lack of media literacy like this. Like, it isn't even subtext. It's just text!

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Lance @lancelotl.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 05:59 UTC

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Ryusui @theryusui.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:30 UTC

counting the days before some chud posts a screenshot of Barret, screaming "WHAT IS THIS WOKE SHIT THEY'RE TRYING TO FORCE ON US" just Barret existing in the game no further context like i'm surprised (and thankful) i haven't seen anything like that YET but you know it's only a matter of time

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Regemor @regemor.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 24, 2024 at 00:52 UTC

Rebirth went even harder. Like apparently Shinra pulled a successful Business Plot.

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@wrasslor.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 08:58 UTC

Had a dipshit conservative telling me how he likes that The Boys isn’t political

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jody @jodyshenn.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 03:08 UTC

They fully fail at understanding analogies is how I put sometimes

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Koga Shuko @please.shutup.dad [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 04:19 UTC

Yeah, you know, the game that has eco-terrorists for protagonists

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LessBadProblems.bsky.social @lessbadproblems.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:17 UTC

I needed this.

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🦬 AudeS, Wrath Month is upon thee @audes.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 08:04 UTC

Yeah, in the original game Shinra was just a regular company and not a conglomerate with its own military, a few Chernobyl incidents, a tendency to drop a section of the city onto another section of the city, human experiments and a giant cannon that does not even turn, making it practically useless

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sev larson 🃏 @7larson.com [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 03:54 UTC

"yeah, they did! in 1997, actually. wild, i know."

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Thomas Guycott @thomasguycott.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:50 UTC

LOL, the first line in one of the US ads for the original game was “An evil empire is sucking the life force of the planet…”

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@horvendill.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 21:41 UTC

Ce qui est dingue c’est que c’est littéralement la première scène du jeu : du sabotage écologiste. Et ensuite, c’est littéralement TOUT le jeu, jusqu’à sa conclusion.

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Abyrae @abyrae.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 16:29 UTC

Funny. I remember 1997 Cloud joining the eco-terrorist group AVALANCHE and blowing up Mako reactors in Midgar. In the first fucking 15 minutes if the game. I wonder what game they played if it wasn' Final Fantasy VII.

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FredCasden @fredcasden.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 04:53 UTC

Do people not know that Final Fantasy is either anti-religion or save the planet / eviromentalism focused?

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TheDaddyOtaku 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 (He/Him/Daddy) @thedaddyotaku.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 02:08 UTC

Well, most of them are in genocidal doomsday cults.

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RedVioletPanda @redvioletpanda.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 16:59 UTC

Even as a kid, playing this game I was well aware that the story was about "saving the planet." Adding on, it's "save the planet from a corporation/militaristic government."

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Call me Puppy ⭐ He/Puppy/They @validpuppy.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 03:11 UTC

Right?! Like whoever this is NEVER played the original, omg.

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