Also yeah I can’t believe I blanked out on how fucked up 5 was

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    I still remember the part where you go from Somalia as viewed by a white man from Boise, ID to Africa as viewed by a 19th century Englishman with straw skirts and spears and magic temples

    Even as a teenage boy, I was agog

    Especially when you find that journal entry that states that the enhanced parasite they infected these people with, increased their jumping power

    Literally the black people have an extra leg muscle, that's why they're more athletic than the otherwise superior white man shit

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      9 months ago

      Yeah at first I felt the game was just tone deaf in depicting a roid raged white man punching out meek africans but the village temples scene made me think this shit was intentional and goes beyond cultural myopia.