#i'm sure a guy who plays factorio to be a colonialist and pollute the environment because he hates native people and the ecosystem Exists

[batberryparfait]

there's a fascinating phenomenon on this site where people very clearly want to be doing complex, interesting political media analysis, but also very clearly have media tastes that aren't super conducive to that. so they're trying to wring big statements out of farming simulation games and network TV sitcoms and making very menial, unimportant things seem massive in the process.

like, yeah, everything is political. all art believes in something because all people believe in something, and even total neutrality is a belief in and of itself.

but like... you're fishing in a puddle here. you're treating Minecraft and Factorio like they've got the writing and depth of Disco Elysium. there's statements to be made about all three of these, but not recognizing what the thing you're analyzing is trying to do is just silly. it's like watching Young Sheldon and trying to extrapolate some grand statement about anti-intellectualism or classism or white christ-nationalism in the American South.

the statement's probably not incorrect, but you're talking about Young Sheldon.