True, I don't think anyone in the White House or in Blinken's office was even aware of this line item, but it shows the mindset of the sort of people the post-Obama US government employs-
The US Embassy in The Hague contributed $275,000 in funding under the "Public Diplomacy Headings" column to the development of what it was pleased to call a "New Counter-Disinformation Game" - an almost Orwellian mislabeling.
The Game in question was Dustborn, which also received funding from the EU and several European governments. Described as "the wokest game ever made" it released this month, and bombed in record-setting fashion.
It's so extreme that it would almost be believable that it was a MAGA-developed false flag, or a Babylon Bee parody of the Most Wokest Game Conceivable, but it's very real. Inspired as a (very, very angry) reaction to Trump's election in 2016, the game follows a busload of "diverse" guerillas, posing as a punk band, as they try to smuggle resistance contraband across the fascist "Republic of America." By diverse of couse we mean pregnant black lesbian, gender-unknown blobby hulk, androgynous gay guy, Hispanic gay guy, and of course no straight or white males except for the fascist bad guys. In between the endless rap sessions on the patriarchy, queer empowerment and decolonization, there are also encounters where the 'combat skills' include - I'm not making this up - "Trigger" and "Cancel" (both of course described as good things).
Oh, and then it came out the devs had simply stolen multiple assets from GTA V. Irony?
Anyway, the existence and quick demise of this exercise in self-insert rage and hatred would hardly be newsworthy- except you were made to pay for this shit.
The US Embassy in The Hague contributed $275,000 in funding under the "Public Diplomacy Headings" column to the development of what it was pleased to call a "New Counter-Disinformation Game" - an almost Orwellian mislabeling.
The Game in question was Dustborn, which also received funding from the EU and several European governments. Described as "the wokest game ever made" it released this month, and bombed in record-setting fashion.
It's so extreme that it would almost be believable that it was a MAGA-developed false flag, or a Babylon Bee parody of the Most Wokest Game Conceivable, but it's very real. Inspired as a (very, very angry) reaction to Trump's election in 2016, the game follows a busload of "diverse" guerillas, posing as a punk band, as they try to smuggle resistance contraband across the fascist "Republic of America." By diverse of couse we mean pregnant black lesbian, gender-unknown blobby hulk, androgynous gay guy, Hispanic gay guy, and of course no straight or white males except for the fascist bad guys. In between the endless rap sessions on the patriarchy, queer empowerment and decolonization, there are also encounters where the 'combat skills' include - I'm not making this up - "Trigger" and "Cancel" (both of course described as good things).
Oh, and then it came out the devs had simply stolen multiple assets from GTA V. Irony?
Anyway, the existence and quick demise of this exercise in self-insert rage and hatred would hardly be newsworthy- except you were made to pay for this shit.
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