The wording of the complaints has me wondering if the game actually does anything "wrong" by the normal standards of video gaming. Like, does it actually glorify violence specifically against Jews? Is there some mission objective to butcher a bunch of civilians? I glance at the Steam page and it looks like the political statement its creator claims it is.

I'm pretty sick of this "anything that isn't hardcore pro-Israel is antisemitic terrorism" horsecrap. Either care about human life or don't, don't BS me and everyone else like the acts and atrocities committed in video games suddenly matter when characters who happen to be (presumed) Jews are involved.

[–] ghurab@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People missing the point. Politicians care more about fictional Israeli and jewish lives than real life Muslims and Arabs.

[–] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 23 points 1 week ago

I see the matters as connected: I figure people who flip out about "antisemitism" at anything even mildly unfriendly to Israel are serving (deliberately or not) to defend, justify, or even glorify its vile actions. That is, I think it's not "zomg those poor pixel Jews!" but rather "Shhh, don't talk like people are fighting against the IDF for a reason! (Let's just accept that they're all horrible evil sub-humans who must to be exterminated for the good of our wonderful, beloved friends and allies!)"

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Making a game about a specific attack that, at best, was purposefully indiscriminate, and at worst, directly targeted civilians is a bit more than the normal fare though. COD probably came closest with their false flag airport mission and that was a fictitious event.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Making a game about a specific attack that, at best, was purposefully indiscriminate,

I mean it also targeted the Israeli military so it definitely belongs in a game where you play as a Palestinian resistance fighter. Also the game was made in 2022 and only has a level about October 7.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah that's a good point, we play Vietnam games with zero recognition of what probably happened to the villagers. I think it probably comes down to what someone thinks the main purpose of the attack was.

[–] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for the information. I really didn't know about that attack and was on my way out at the time so I was more reacting to generalities and what was right in front of me.

I don't mean to suggest that anything and everything should be socially acceptable as freeze peach, just that I feel some people are being disingenuous and should be expected to point out an actual problem like "Look here, the rewards you get vary based on the racial and religious background of every civilian you kill!" Killing civilians who happen to be present regardless of other matters is murder. Killing opposing military personnel regardless of other matters is battle. Killing people because they're Jewish is murderous antisemitism. Not wanting something seen doesn't make it a crime... but I think some people are so stuck picking sides that even mention that there's another point of view offends them 🤷

That said, could be Hamas is pure evil for all I know and there's just no way to present anything they do without it being disgusting. I just... bleh, maybe it's an autism thing. There's a nit there that I can't help but pick 😅 I want more sincerity and sense in this world.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

To be fair I think the hostages/dead civilians are more because they're Israeli than their religion. There's definitely anti-Semitism in Hamas, but Hamas was founded to resist brutal occupation tactics.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) is calling for Valve to pull the controversial game Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which has players acting as a Palestinian resistance fighter, from gaming platform Steam.

The game, created by Brazilian developer Nidal Nijm, has already been removed from Steam in several countries, including the United Kingdom, following a request for removal from the U.K. Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit, 404 Media reported. Nijm also said that the game is blocked across the European Union due to EU violations flagged by the French government’s cybercrime unit. In an email from Valve that Nijm showed to Polygon, the violation is of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2021/784, which addresses the “dissemination of terrorist content online.”

I think the funniest thing here is that this game was made by a Brazilian and it went relatively unknown until some skrub said it was anti semetic after Oct 7, despite having been published since 2022.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

US rep asking for their shadow state to be respected

kek

[–] november@lemmy.vg 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

I don't even like this genre of game but I bought it (after downloading the demo to make sure it would run under Proton) because fuck this censorship.

(Edit) Just saw a post on Bsky claiming that "if you shoot soldiers who are surrendering, you lose". Much evil, very terrorism.

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[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 1 week ago

Ohh no fake anti semetism claims being raised again!

At what point do people take notice lol

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

New TTT looks lit

[–] maplebar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TTT was so fucking great back in the day.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The vr pavlov version is so fun

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