I was replaying Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura game recently after some years and I noticed it had modern day politics for the time the game was made. Intolerance against orcs or how industrialization has led to deforestation and pollution.I still enjoyed it and I found this topics to enhance the game. If politics has always been in games then why does it bother me so much now, what actually changed?
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There is a difference between introducing a real world idea and exploring it fairly without drawing any particular conclusion; and preaching a one dimensional argument with all the intelligence of the Gawker editor in chief who decided to testify that he'd publish child porn given the opportunity.
Not that the former always works of course, but it works far more often than the latter.