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doverhog posted:Black metal is weird. When your music is trying to be shocking and about mass murder and satan raping kids etc., you can throw in Hitler to be even more shocking and evil. Is that actually supporting right wing ideologies? Do nazis want to be lumped in with torture fetishists and death cults? I dunno, maybe Sword and Sceptre does. Nah dude, there's actual nazis in the black metal scene. Whether it's avowed racist and convicted murderer Varg Vikernes of Burzum fame, the white supremacists in Inquisition, or the nazi black metal scene in Oregon they totally exist. computer parts posted:After the whole Kayne & Lynch saga it's pretty hard to argue game journalists are "reliable" in any sense. What happened with Kayne and Lynch?
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doverhog posted:There are some nazis, sure. Is every black metal band with seemingly nazi lyrics actually a nazi band? Probably not. Black metal has been a pretty reactionary genre since its inception. Members of bands that essentially founded the genre have gone on record as being against cultural outsiders, commercialism, modernity, and what have you. That vein has definitely persisted throughout the genre. I'm not saying that all black metal bands are nazis or reactionaries or whatever but they definitely have greater prominence than in other genres. And when your scene is known for having nazis and reactionaries hanging around I'm sorry but you don't get the benefit of the doubt when you start using nazi iconography just because it's associated with evil and you also sing songs about the devil. I feel like it's also inherently different from death metal's focus on, well, death in that the violence I'm concerned with in black metal is inherently political while death metal comes across as pure shock value. bloodysabbath posted:It's definitely possible to review a video game without getting into your pet personal issues much in the same way it's very much possible and desirable to review an iPhone without getting into your thoughts on how Foxconn is evil, or to review a meal at a restaurant without going on a rant about how you think the tipping system/GMOs/the contractor who built the place is bullshit. I think you're comparing apples and oranges here. I don't typically see reviewers tearing down games for the process that led to the game getting made. I see critique of social issues that are present in the plot of the actual game itself. I'm way more interested in a review that provides commentary on the plot of Modern Warfare 3, Grand Theft Auto V, or The Division than one that sticks purely to the shooting mechanics and the graphics. There are a lot of good shooters out there and my money is limited. I'd rather play something that's slightly mechanically flawed but has an interesting story like Spec Ops: The Line than another big swinging dick American military masturbation fest. That said I primarily check out reviews on bigger name sites. I have no idea if some blog somewhere is slamming games because of the studio's skirting labor laws.
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