Leftist "authors" vs Monster Hunter International

[Greg]

? There are Commie Sci-Fi writers? I thought that basic premise pretty much precluded such soft-headedness...

Uhh... at least 80% of all science fiction is leftist in some way... most often socio-fascist.

It gets published, doesn't it? And you know what it has to be to make it past those gatekeepers....

[Jericho941]

It often depends on what sets off the Politics Alarm in the publisher's head.

For example, the Call of Duty video game series has been frequently called racist because a lot of it involves Americans shooting foreigners.

These same reviewers can't heap enough praise on Far Cry 3, a game about a rich white American college boy douchebag with a fake tribal tattoo, who gets captured by pirates, is saved by a Magical Negro and given a real, magic tribal tattoo, and has to save the local, mostly-indolent villagers from the savagery of the jungle.

No, seriously. FC3 somehow fails to trip any of the left's alarms on racism, privilege, imperialism, The White Man's Burden, the whole nine yards. It's Game of the Year material. But CoD? Raaaaaaaaaaaciiiiiiist!

I think this sort of weird political blindness is simply a matter of how enjoyable one finds the material. CoD's gotten stale, FC3 is "Skyrim with guns!" I mean, I've often seen disbelief expressed at how a leftist or a mainstream Hollywood movie can seemingly depict gun ownership in a positive light. The fact is, they probably just liked the story too much to notice what they were doing. Even the writers themselves can fail to realize what they're doing. Then you've got interpretation and subjectivity. There've been authors that were stunned that people took a certain "message" from their writing that stood against everything they believed in, let alone what they were attempting to write.

Hmm. Maybe one of these days I should actually finish what I write and try to get published.

[martini]

Another one is John Scalzi. I enjoyed Old Man's War, but his politics are assinine.

[Greg]

Another one is John Scalzi. I enjoyed Old Man's War, but his politics are assinine.

Scalzi's a special case. He can think, but he has deep-seated personal reasons for being what he is, politically. He's the son-in-law from 'No Truce With Kings'. He grew up seriously poor, and basically the welfare state is his father figure, and he's loyal to his own.

[Highspeed]

As part of my quest to become a more normal person by reading fiction instead of technical manuals I downloaded some John Scalzi books.
Knowing absolutely nothing about him - coming to his fiction from a completely neutral position - I really enjoyed most of it.

Then again I hate hippies but listen to a hell of a lot of 60's and 70's hippie psychedelic rock music. I love the Grateful Dead for example. The one thing I can't stand is being lectured to in the guise of entertainment. As long as that isn't going on then I'm happy.

[Denis]

Randy, after reading the linked post I:

b) am confirmed in my view that FB is pointless - it's like the flame wars of usenet all over again, in glorious technicolor.

Not having an account on the Devil's Database, I couldn't say if this was typical or not.

Typical Facebook.

[308Mike]

Randy, after reading the linked post I:
Not having an account on the Devil's Database, I couldn't say if this was typical or not.

Typical Facebook.

And to think these morons are gonna' be VOTERS.