Overthinking Meatpunks 

So I actually super appreciate the decision to elide the exact slurs the fash are shouting at you?

When a lot of media portrays bigots it seems like they feel some vague obligation to shock the audience with the bigotry, to show just how nasty it is.

But for Meatpunks having an audience of queer/marginalized people, we already get it? There's no need to be in our face about it.

Overthinking Meatpunks 

For the game to decide to write it as "[slur]" does a couple of cool things. It makes it seem like the exact word chosen isn't really important, but is instead one just thrown out there with the vague sense that it applies to the target. Fash don't care whether their slurs are /accurate/.

It also echoes the real-world sense of bigots being kinda worthy of eyerolling? Dangerous, sure, but also fucking tired and uncreative and not anything we haven't already seen before

Overthinking Meatpunks 

Anyway I really like the way the game (so far) treats fash as a sort of undifferentiated background radiation. Dangerous but not *interesting*.

Overthinking Meatpunks 

I'm pretty well over media that's Super Excited about the aesthetics of fascism.

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