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You can also end a shift early, if you need to, though it’s suboptimal play since you’re trying to stay ahead of that 500K daily debt servicing.

I’ve been following and playing this game since they showed up at PAX East with an early alpha a few years ago, and I’m just so pleased that everyone else is cottoning on to how gosh darn fun and good it is.

Agree that VR support would be clutch, but in the meantime, what we have already is top notch, and the fact that you can play it in 15-minute increments (which rapidly become 45 minute increments, of course) is gravy. It’s the only game I have endured multiple progression resets to keep going back into as they’ve added features, and it’s been worth it each time. Looking forward to hitting the later parts of the game now that it’s out of EA and progression resets are done.

well done to the team.

put in a reedy NZ accent and you have yourself a ROLE

Probably this will be like Solo and slip a few months back and then get eaten alive by the Marvel movie that is scheduled to come out the next week. Alternately, it will be like Rogue One and be told to hit its date NO MATTER WHAT, even if it’s not really a fully finished film.

If anyone can success from between those rocks, it’s TW, though. As far as I’m concerned the man can do no wrong. Looking forward to seeing what character he picks for himself — I’m thinking a Sith Lord that isn’t actually Dark and Evil, and is mostly just a dweeb.

This is kind of a problem about literally all dramatic depictions of fascism, going back to A New Hope (somewhat confusingly) cribbing its final "Leia gives everyone but Chewy a medal" sequence from Triumph of the Will*. Like yeah, Ed Norton is a fucking Nazi psychopath we aren’t supposed to idolize, but he still looks POWERFUL murdering that teenager in the opening moments of American History X and so guess what kind of asshole plasters a big black-and-white shirtless Ed Norton up at his college dorm?

Maybe Mel Brooks really has the right of it. The only way to really nail them to the wall is to make them clownish buffoons.

*later Star Wars films, especially the prequels and extra-especially the sequels, did a better job of giving the fascist aesthetic more squarely to the bad guys. And so now we have Kylo Ren fanboys.

To put it another way, Homelander is the guy storming the Capitol in camo, convinced he’s on the right side of history and defending American Freedom by, just temporarily of course, totally subverting democracy. Then he looks to one side and sees a guy in "Auschwitz was a Lie" t-shirt, and looks to his other side and sees another guy wearing a swastika. Is that who he’s keeping company with?

Obviously, because he is Homelander, he finds a way to publicly (and internally/psychologically) resolve that dissonance by saying he got swept up in their nonsense, but he’s still a good guy you can trust.

The trailer makes it clear that we, the audience, know better than to let him off the hook that easily. He is still the bad guy who hangs out with Nazis and would, if given half a chance, run everything with laser eyes and enforce clear, easily defined hierarchies of who is in charge and who isn’t and the violent suppression of any dissent and oh shoot, right, he’s a Nazi.

You could certainly make that choice but I don’t think it would be any MORE effective as a delivery means for a "racism is bad" message, and going another way doesn’t seem to me like "wussing out" when Homelander is right there. Homelander is, after all, already the very-lightly-coded, popular fascist you are describing; having him get very on board, ideologically, with someone who turns out to be a literal Nazi proves the point you want her to make all on her own.

Wasn’t that the point, though? SF is introduced as someone we kind of like and enjoy, because she’s here to poke at Vaught and Homelander’s bullshit, but slowly we learn that she is a racist, and then in fact an actual, literal Nazi. The arc effectively showcases how charisma and a strong social media game can serve as gateways for Ultimate Evil, and that there is an ideological throughline direct from Hitler to modern White Nationalism. Which IS shown to be popular when she dresses it up for the masses.

If anything, wussing out would be giving her some "economic anxiety" nonsense as a figleaf. Or maybe have her be mugged by a black person as a college kid or something. Explain it away.

But it’s not economic anxiety or interaction with racialized crime that animates White Nationalists in real life. They are just Nazis without the iconography, and it’s worth saying exactly that.

Disappointed that there doesn’t seem to be any way to attend a prestigious university and then leverage your connections to become a supreme court justice but maybe they’re saving that for the expansion