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Original Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says 'critique of capitalism was never the point' of the games and if anything they're about how 'war is inevitable given basic human nature' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You can also replace woke with another word and it is indeed true that this hypothetical game has a message of female empowerment by having a strong female lead yes. Fallout can have an anti-capitalist message whether you're pro or anti capitalist yourself and use your own word of choice to denigrate or praise the message. The word you chose says more about you than the message.

What was your point already?

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.one 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Once work leaves the hands of an author, the author no longer controls the narrative, or how the narrative is interpreted.

This sentence being upvoted on Lemmy of all places is hypocritical. I don't fully disagree with it, but people's interpretation of art can definitely be wrong. People interpreting fallout as anti capitalist could be wrong if the author says so. This is just being upvoted because it suits Lemmy's political views in general.

If someone interprets the Mona Lisa as an alien; that's wrong. Or is it?

Bit more realistic; why did nobody say "the interpretation isn't up to the author" when Trump decided to use Rage Against the Machine at his rally? Was that also not wrong because a large group of people interpreted the narrative differently than the author? Ofcourse they were wrong.

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's giving a different importance to something that is, in fact, present in the art piece because it touches you more importantly than it did the author, and then there's making shit up whole cloth. But like I said, the words you chose, and also the things you chose to defend, say more about you than the art

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.one 1 points 2 months ago

...and what is that exactly? I'm just disagreeing with the quote in my last post. What are you on about?