Left Flank Fran

Too tired to stream, just lazy ideological critique of games and movies you don’t like, but also a HEAVY Last of Us obsession. Fran/Fran

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

The class struggle is apparent with the servants’ quarters in Croft manor, and so on an so forth, therefore I do not need to play the ROTTR Blood Ties DLC to give my very vital and not at all obvious take on virtual papers and can delete the game to make space on my PS4. Godbless

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Go make an account now on https://t.co/Hu6GVUdHXB and let’s do it

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

I’m 0-4 for Red Flag Over Paris matches on Rally-the-troops? But I’m also a masochist, so who’s next?

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Haven’t tried it, but more of these please. Games are a battleground for ideology and learning from the past and preparing to change the future!

[ᴀ-ʟᴇx 🔴 @RedSpectre5]

ROMANIAN PEOPLES REPUBLIC SIMULATOR:
Hello everyone!
Continuing from the latest poll, here I will elaborate on the basic game mechanics and how they will affect the course of the playthrough: Heres the main screen featuring basic information according to each year

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Games absolutely teach. When you look at what AAA teaches, and what it could be teaching, what we’re seeing produced at that level starts to look like a psyop.

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Can we be done already with the knocking-over-small-to-medium-size-business sims and move on to gaming out the sabotage and expropriation of ultra-massive-multinationals? That’s a skills tree worth climbing.

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

The first Weyland-Yutani / Tyrell / Wallace / etc may already exist. We don’t need to wait for a Time Machine in order to do the right thing.

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Mario movie was, quite surprisingly, of a higher general quality and enjoyability than any Marvel/DC movie I’ve seen, which I realize isn’t saying much. Being animated isn’t the only reason I suspect it will age far better as well.

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Just got on a revolutionary geopolitics tabletop kick and finding (surprise, surprise) they often appear to be written/designed from an anti-communist posture. Cuba Libre from GMT (where you can be Castro or Batista) explicitly uses a counter-insurgency framework, for example.

[Marc Majcher @majcher]

I'm literally nobody in the ttrpg scene, and y'all know how I feel about stuff, but:

There are more cops in the "community" than you realize. They design, publish, run cons, head "safety" teams, and they will always protect their friends and 100% fuck with anyone who talks back.

[☭Tauris Marian☭ He/Him @Tyberius_1917]

@BalkanMoose

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Me, but they’re always butchy women with high intelligence.

[bo @schnedwob]

me rolling up my twelfth "totally different and original!!!" RPG character that ends up being a robot, a skeleton, or a sad old man

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Who says games can’t be good practice? Better start working out those side-picking muscles.

[The Noble One @TheNobleOne16]

@knatemccraw So saying that I don't like how a game forces me to be either fascist or a communist is somehow a stupid thing?

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Rather ironically, what appears to be Atomic Heart’s fundamentally anti-communist message (via irony) is ideologically sympatico with Ukraine-NATO supporters who want this game banned in no small part because they dumbly perceive it to be pro-Soviet.

[Ars Technica @arstechnica]

Ukraine's Digital Ministry will ask Steam, Microsoft, and Sony to remove Atomic Heart from their gaming platforms in the county—and possibly elsewhere—pointing to its retro-Communist aesthetic and reported "Russian roots."
https://t.co/MEarExncYy

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Which is exactly the response Western apologists give when waving away their countries’ own non-aggression pacts with Hitler. But for USSR, no it means definitively that Communism and Nazism are twins.

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Tell me you’ve never played Civilization without telling me you’ve never played Civilization. How many turns has a non-aggression pact ever lasted? They’re not worth the pixels that print them!

[Mavka Slavka 🧜‍♀️🌻 @MavkaSlavka]

Russia’s myth of being anti-fascist.
(A thread🧵)

The effect of portraying the Russians as the great enemy of fascism has been the portrayal of the Russians as the “eternal enemy” of fascism. Even under the Soviet Union, that was not entirely true.

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Positives on Strange Worlds in particular: harmonious ecosystem board game representation + seamless non-hetero relationship dialogue ftw

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Agreed with Alex except wow do I have the impulse to abolish the Disney/Pixar family. I’m tired by the exceptional kin conceit (see Encanto, now Strange Worlds), want more stories of the “kin” that we choose as a matter of survival.

[Alex Hochuli 🧉🎙️🤯📉 @Alex__1789]

Abolish the New Left

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

I like both of those movies mentioned btw and genuinely appreciate their representational efforts, despite suspecting they will feel dated, and wishing writers could push further.

[Yer Franny Boi Boleslav 🧑🏼 💋 @SpoonTheVoid]

@froelichsean I don’t see it. To each their own. Rings of Power does it for me. Actually what sours it for me is CBS’s entanglement with Amazon meant they dropped a 60 minutes exclusive about algorithmically (at best) promoting suicide kits.

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Literally all of the adaptations have flaws, but man do they all scratch an itch.

[Left Flank Fran @LeftFlankGam1ng]

Very funny to me that fanboys don’t seem to like Berserk 2016, largely based on the overall tone. Do they all hate Puck too?