I remember listening to the litrpg fantasy series He Who Fights with Monsters and I vividly remember when the author started using “Authoritarian” as a visual aesthetic unironically. Like saying “The costume was more like a uniform, and had authoritarian elements,” or something like that and it was just so… ugh. When the author wasn’t writing about “real world” politics, it was an otherwise interesting read which is saying something about the genre.
It’s just so funny, it’s a totally normal floodlight on the wall of a base. I was like “Why does this have an interact? Can I aim it?” and was greeted with “evil commie lights”. Nearly fell off my chair.
Someone on the team is apeing the way the US calls even innocuous things China does authoritarian and it’s really funny to me.
I remember listening to the litrpg fantasy series He Who Fights with Monsters and I vividly remember when the author started using “Authoritarian” as a visual aesthetic unironically. Like saying “The costume was more like a uniform, and had authoritarian elements,” or something like that and it was just so… ugh. When the author wasn’t writing about “real world” politics, it was an otherwise interesting read which is saying something about the genre.
It’s just so funny, it’s a totally normal floodlight on the wall of a base. I was like “Why does this have an interact? Can I aim it?” and was greeted with “evil commie lights”. Nearly fell off my chair.
Someone on the team is apeing the way the US calls even innocuous things China does authoritarian and it’s really funny to me.
It plays into my idea that the whole thing is virtual displays, and we have no idea what things look like outside our helmets.
I thought that might be a possibility, Black Mirror did it, but then what does it look like to the civilians running around?