Yes. I have played it since the orange box and still do occasionally. This is “you couldn’t make blazing saddles today” nonsense. The satire is and has been apparent for a long time in large part because Valve generally doesn’t punch down.

[–] closetfurry@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love the arguement that you couldn't make blazing saddles today because if you handed the script to a producer, they'd take one look and go "we can't make this! This is just blazing saddles, and it came out years ago"

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Lol ok I’ll give you that. But I also think you get what I mean. There’s actually a fantastic video called that covers this issue incredibly well. I think you’ll really enjoy it.

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think it's the fact that people are too easily offended, if that's what you mean. It's good satire, to be sure. I just personally think that the amount of people who play a lot of video games are marketed towards these days may not be the crowd known for their.. critical thinking.

Plus, it's things like sensational journalism that I feel would be the ones to put out their opinion to outrage the masses. Again: I don't think that people are "too easily offended" or whatever these days. But many are easily swayed by mass media opinions. That's just my thought.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

At the very least people would be upset about the demoman's VA being white, and would probably try to claim that the demoman being an alcoholic has everything to do with racism and not the fact that he's supposed to be a Scottish stereotype. Tbh, other than that I'm not really sure what people would get upset about except maybe that there aren't any (known) playable female characters (iirc the pyro's gender is supposed to be androgenous and a mystery) and 8 out of 9 of the characters are white.