2026-09-05 10:51 UTC
Replies (14)
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@pjwestin@lemmy.world 2026-09-06 03:23
Honestly, I’m more angry about the meme creator thinking that Super Mario Bros. was 1972.
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@THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2026-09-05 15:38
The Last of Us is just something I cannot get in to. Been trying for 10 years. I just do not care and it bores me to death even when I was trying to force myself to stay with it. Turns out as I get older, I still don’t want walking simulators. I still just want more of the games I played as a kid, and luckily I still have them all.
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@kamen@lemmy.world 2026-09-05 17:20
I’ve got a suspicion that this is one of those “say something intentionally stupid so that everyone jumps on the train to correct you and create engagement”.
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@realitista@lemmus.org 2026-09-06 00:33
There are actually very few games overall where you jump on enemies.
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@EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-05 14:08
It’s like hearing someone say “there were no strong female leads in movies before the Hunger Games”
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@abc@suppo.fi 2026-09-06 05:15
Now they eat strawberries gaily
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@myyass@lemmy.world 2026-09-06 00:15
That’s right because playing Dark Souls, I had to insert my sanity in the coin slot every time I died and it said Thanks Obama.
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@tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-09-05 14:19
If we want to be charitable there’s a nugget of truth to what he’s saying though. I’m 48 now and I’ve played computer games since I was seven, and I’ve worked with game development myself. TLOU was the first game that felt like it had a story for someone who’s 40+. It felt like some kind of milestone. The art of games has matured significantly in the past 15 years.
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@orioler25@lemmy.world 2026-09-05 17:34
I guess Zionism is a bold innovation in video game storytelling now. Edit: putting this here because I know you goddamn morons arent gonna read two comments down: www.reversecanarymission.org/…/neil-druckmann vice.com/…/the-not-so-hidden-israeli-politics-of-… time.com/…/the-last-of-us-controversy-israel-gaza… This isn’t even a controversial association, you people have to fucking grow up. “Druckmann has openly stated that the themes of revenge and cyclical violence in The Last of Us Part II stem from his reaction to the 2000 Ramallah lynching of two Israeli soldiers, where footage of the event filled him with “intense hatred” and a desire to “kill all these people that committed this horrible act” and “make them feel the same pain.” He later reflected on feeling “gross and guilty” for these impulses, but used them as the foundation for the game’s narrative. Druckmann also draws parallels to Israeli politics, citing the 2011 exchange of over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, noting how his father viewed the deal as harmful to Israel overall but would release every prisoner to save his own son. These inspirations manifest in The Last of Us Part II’s portrayal of warring factions: the secular, militarized Washington Liberation Front (WLF), equipped with advanced weaponry and resources, mirrors the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) as a “brutal but well-intended” military, while the Seraphites, a religious cult engaging in ritual disembowelment and fanaticism, dehumanizes Palestinians as an extremist threat akin to Hamas.”
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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-05 17:15
Super Mario Bros was published in 1985 not 1972 but yeah. Back in the 90’s, video games were new enough that you could forgive the film industry for not being familiar with them. It’s been 30 years. They still don’t get it.
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@Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip 2026-09-05 11:45
It’s frustrating how people in charge are so far away from reality. Remember when Kathleen Kennedy said that writing for Star Wars is hard because there aren’t any books and comics?
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@chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2026-09-06 02:14
The showrunner of TLOU was also the head writer for the game.
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@boletus@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-07 08:53
Craig Mazin never said this at all. The closest source I could find on it is a seemingly bot generated article about a sarcastic tweet that someone made about him.
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@BreadOven@lemmy.world 2026-09-06 14:08
As far as I’m concerned Pong is the ONLY video game worth playing.