The funny thing is the worlds are never actually that fucked up, it's always 'told' not 'shown'.

I would dare say that Skid Row in Los Angeles is legitimately a worse place than the worst of the worst places depicted in Cyberpunk 2077. Night City is literally a better place to live than Los Angeles. You can walk down the street and not have human shit thrown on you. You can park your car and nobody stole it or robbed you blind while you were out. If someone attacks you in-game you can freely mow them down, but in present-day Los Angeles, you'll go to prison for self-defense, especially if you shot the 'wrong' type of person.

The pathetic thing is that there's all these pieces they could actually do something with. Okay, so maybe games think child rape is too intense and would never pass ratings. Well, you have the 'XBDs' in Cyberpunk, where people live out fantasies of murder and rape.

Well in real-life we know for sure we have at least some kind of cabal of child-raping elites. They went and would hang out on an island with their friend Jeff.

You ever seen a single fucking one of these game even depict the idea that, hey, maybe all the politicians are XBD connoisseurs? If they ever did do that, it would only ever be just one guy, and the player would go kill him or something, hooray, mission accomplished!

Or, if they did do that, it would probably be absurdly over-the-top, and the player just kills all of them. And the world will probably seem unaffected and that's it. You defeated Satan Inc. There's no crushing realization that the lone player is actually utterly powerless, and the game ends like most dystopian games should, on a downbeat note where the real lesson is that you are no hero, and you've got to live with the terrible things you may have learned.

And that goes back to my original point. The players are shown that something like that is a one-off thing, so they subconsciously take that to the real world. "Oh it's not possible all our politicians could be baby-blood-drinking satanic demons. Like maybe one guy, probably Trump."

The funny thing is the worlds are never actually that fucked up, it's always 'told' not 'shown'.

I would dare say that Skid Row in Los Angeles is legitimately a worse place than the worst of the worst places depicted in Cyberpunk 2077. Night City is literally a better place to live than Los Angeles. You can walk down the street and not have human shit thrown on you. You can park your car and nobody stole it or robbed you blind while you were out. If someone attacks you in-game you can freely mow them down, but in present-day Los Angeles, you'll go to prison for self-defense, especially if you shot the 'wrong' type of person.

The pathetic thing is that there's all these pieces they could actually do something with. Okay, so maybe games think child rape is too intense and would never pass ratings. Well, you have the 'XBDs' in Cyberpunk, where people live out fantasies of murder and rape.

Well in real-life we know for sure we have at least some kind of cabal of child-raping elites. They went and would hang out on an island with their friend Jeff.

You ever seen a single fucking one of these game even depict the idea that, hey, maybe all the politicians are XBD connoisseurs? If they ever did do that, it would only ever be just one guy, and the player would go kill him or something, hooray, mission accomplished!

And that goes back to my original point. The players are shown that something like that is a one-off thing, so they subconsciously take that to the real world. "Oh it's not possible all our politicians could be baby-blood-drinking satanic demons. Like maybe one guy, probably Trump."

The funny thing is the worlds are never actually that fucked up, it's always 'told' not 'shown'.

I would dare say that Skid Row in Los Angeles is legitimately a worse place than the worst of the worst places depicted in Cyberpunk 2077. Night City is literally a better place to live than Los Angeles. You can walk down the street and not have human shit thrown on you. You can park your car and nobody stole it or robbed you blind while you were out. If someone attacks you in-game you can freely mow them down, but in present-day Los Angeles, you'll go to prison for self-defense, especially if you shot the 'wrong' type of person.

The pathetic thing is that there's all these pieces they could actually do something with. Okay, so maybe games think child rape is too intense and would never pass ratings. Well, you have the 'XBDs' in Cyberpunk, where people live out fantasies of murder and rape.

Well in real-life we know for sure we have at least some kind of cabal of child-raping elites. They went and would hang out on an island with their friend Jeff.

You ever seen a single fucking one of these game even depict the idea that, hey, maybe all the politicians are XBD connoisseurs? If they ever did do that, it would only ever be just one guy, and the player would go kill him or something, hooray, mission accomplished!

And that goes back to my original point. The players are shown that something like that is a one-off thing. Instead of everyone in politics.

The funny thing is the worlds are never actually that fucked up, it's always 'told' not 'shown'.

I would dare say that Skid Row in Los Angeles is legitimately a worse place than the worst of the worst places depicted in Cyberpunk 2077. Night City is literally a better place to live than Los Angeles. You can walk down the street and not have human shit thrown on you. You can park your car and nobody stole it or robbed you blind while you were out. If someone attacks you in-game you can freely mow them down, but in present-day Los Angeles, you'll go to prison for self-defense, especially if you shot the 'wrong' type of person.