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?

Not sure if it was worth posting but the song Sick Boy from The Chainsmokers describes well the divide in America from someone who is not on the left. And I think is cool and thought to share since is not like there are many in the music industry that are not complete leftists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eACohWVwTOc

Let me know what you think.

From another site:

It's about how people demonize other people only for having a different political view even if they don't know them personally, and they are narcissist because they think that they have the absolute truth and are not able to even listen to the other side because it disrupts their belief system or ideology... And suppress other people through social media to dictate what's morally accepted or not. I believe the chaisnmokers were raised in a very conservative environment (the east) so they have some of those conservative values that liberals hate (the west coast), so they struggled with that to be able to have succeed in the music industry. That's why I think he said he lives in a "prison" because he has a very competitive mentality and had to suppress his inner conservative (his true identity) in order to enter the music industry which is extremely liberal dominated.

Just wanted to vent a bit about my older brother after I was at his son birthday party. We do not talk much so I decided to catch up with his life.

• He got offended when I told him that he is the whitest guy I know. Apparently calling him white was somehow bad. I only said that because without lotion he burns in the sun, full red in a minute.
• We talked about what books he reads now since it is his favorite hobby. Apparently he only reads books with harems in them and lesbians which is fine by me of-course but then he took time to educate me about "the spectrum" which by the way is retarded.
• He only watches movies with a lesbian or at least a bisexual chick as main role
• He told me how good it is to change D&D dark elves and orcs - he does not play it and knows I am a fan - think he only mentioned to piss me off
• He like socialism for some unknown reason, people under socialism worked hard as fuck without having a choice in the matter (parents are from Romania) and he is at a level of lazy that I can not describe.
• Very pro putting social political messages in games/movies and books.
• Totally ignores his son education, the boy was hurting my grandmas dog and he did not care - I mean take him to a doctor behavior not just pull her by the tail. Luckily his wife is a huge capitalist fan, conservative, daughter of an ortodox priest so the kid will be fine.
• Hates J.K. Rowling now :)) I wonder why as he used to be a fan. I chuckled at this one.
• And the worst part he apparently hates me for not being miserable - not kidding. Just because I like what I do (although the company is "progressive"), I love my beautiful wife and I watch my health apparently is somehow privilege although we are brothers and had the same start.

Conclusion: He apparently developed some kind of kinks I do not want to know. He is doing poorly at his job because he is lazy and would rather read then do his work. Hates society and anyone who is happy. Hates being a white male. And wants everyone to be miserable and remove the opportunity to be successful from others. How high does this rank on a SJW scale?

Bonus: What my grandma has to say about socialism: If you are in a point in life where someone else tells you what to do and what to think then you are the same as dead. (is a rough translation from Romanian)

I wanted to share some PC games I enjoyed during the pandemic, not new games but fun. If you have any games to suggest please share, they do not have to be on the PC.

this 2 are investigation type games I got on sale and I was surprised that I liked but are not worth full price:

• Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments

• Murdered: Soul Suspect

• Battle Brothers - tactical RPG that I still play from time to time, fun and hard game

• Magrunner - Puzzle games similar to Portal but with cyberpunk + Cthulhu

• Tower of Time - is a crpg that I absolutely loved

• Enderal: Forgotten Stories - you need Skyrim to play but I doubt that is an issue. Great story

• Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem - I actually liked it but the end game needs work and to few talents. Not sure if it is better now, I would not recommend at full price.

• Binary Domain - old school full of action shooter where you kill robots left and right. I think this was famous but I never heard of it so adding it to the list.

I also played DMC5 and Doom but pointless to put on a list since everyone knows about those.

Any suggestions are welcomed.

EDIT: Keep them coming. Compiled list from comment section:

• Bug Fables. Which is literally Paper Mario 64 with more content.
• Hades. SuperGiant Games' (Bastion, Transistor) roguelike
• Total Warhammer 2
• Starsector - 4x strategy and space fleet sim
• Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. - Very polished free roguelike
• Rive - Intense twin stick side scrolling shooter
• Bloodstained : Curse of the Moon 1 and 2 - Old school 8 bit Castlevania clone
• Children of Morta- great Diablo like, best in co-op mode
• Berserk: Band of the Hawk - Also called Berserk Musou
• Tales of Berseria - JRPG
• Ghost of Tsushima
• FFVII remake
• Hollow Knight
• Divinity Original Sin 2
• disco elysium
• soulreaver
• dota
• Metro series
• NDS - "Hotel Dusk" - investigation
• Scrap mechanic
• DCS is a great combat flight sim
• Insurgency and Insurgency Sandstorm are great FPSs
• Simcity 4 modders just released the 37th version of their traffic and network overhaul system called NAM
• Hunt Showdown - battle royal
• Vanquish - Story is a bit out there but it's basically gears of war with insane mobility
• Broforce
• Sniper Elite series
• Total War Rome II and Shogun II
• Doom & Destiny, a JRPG style that's a good time without being too serious
• Lisa, a very unique JRPG.
• Geneforge, a tactical RPG that's maybe 20 years old at this point
• 1001 Spikes, a precision platformer
• Hacknet, a hacking simulation/puzzle game
• Kingdom Come Deliverance if you want a 1st person western RPG
• Final Fantasy 12
• Rage 2
• Sengoku Rance - strategy game masquerading as a porn game
• Towerclimb - a superb platformer, and utterly brutal
• Return of the Obra Dinn - a puzzle/detective game set on a ghost ship
• Aquaria - Indie game and a terrific metroidvania
• Spelunky - Platforming roguelike game
• Intruder by Superboss games - Stealth game
• Trails in the Sky trilogy - JRPG