As an example, you see with certain countries, they censor things that are subversive. Islamic countries will remove gay stuff as they should.
So that brings me to things like Red Dead Redemption. The first Red Dead Redemption is one of my favorite video games of all time. I also recognize it as utterly subversive.
I love it for the gameplay and skip the cutscenes, but if you don't skip the cutscenes, it's clear that Rockstar was trying to shine their leftist garbage values onto the American cowboy mythos.
What do you do if you're in charge of America? Have the script rewritten and the dialogue redone/revoiced, leave it be, etc?
I'm of the mind that we had the right idea in the 1950s where we opposed subversive communistic/marxist messages in entertainment. If they wanted to get away with it, they had to be subtle enough that most people wouldn't pick up on it back then.
That said, what is and isn't subversive? Is Max Payne subversive? In the first game, I don't notice any subversive bullcrap, but to someone else who considers anything darker and bleaker than the Andy Griffith show to be destructive to the American spirit, Max Payne would be subversive to them.
What's your opinion?
Legalize emulation for every system except the latest console generation. Mandatory compatibility patching to get old games to run on modern systems for PC titles. Massive efforts to preserve the digital libraries of games that are eroding into the aether.
Massive overhauls to copyright law. No more squatting on IPs, but also a whole lot of letting a good thing die with dignity. No more will we allow a masterpiece to be defaced and its legacy milked into irrelevance and depravity.
Discord will be banned as well as all similar centralized services that seek to monopolize the digital realm. Everyone will reacquaint themselves with the struggles of hosting a Ventrilo server and running a sequential forum.
Government grants for multiplayer games that implement good netcode or maybe penalties for netcode that doesn't meet a certain standard of performance. I want the days of shitty delay based netcode to give way to a new age of well implemented rollback netcode(or whatever we can find that surpasses it).
And while I'm dreaming I would also like to see both the industry and society restructured in such a way as to bring couch co-op/competition back into fashion. I miss playing games on the couch with my friends.