To be fair, the kind of people the meme is making fun of tend to map pretty closely to the domestic terrorists that go on mass shootings because they have to interact with anyone other than a cis white male.

So the picture being of an actual war criminal kinda works, in a dark way.

Metamagic Adept so you can cast Toll the Dead as a Quickened Cantrip.

What, when you want someone dead you make sure they can’t be stabilized by nearby clerics.

While Capitalism might be relatively new in the history of humanity, greed isn’t and and in many ways Capitalism can be argued to be just greed as a virtue.

Now greed, that in many ways has been described as the root of all evil. Yes, there are arguments about Pride being worse or more fundamental, but greed is persistent and eternal in how often it comes up.

And not subtly like banks were back in WW2. Straight up endorsement.

Basically. I didn’t know that the developer was Palestinian, as 404 merely mentioned the developer currently resides in Brazil, but yeah the point still stands. You can have a solo developer make a good game around a good message, a bad game around a good message, or any combination in between.

Its why the discussion around this game mildly annoys me, as the asset flip nature of the game really gives a sour comparison to other more famous games with “controversial” scenes. No Russian, for example.

Ultimately, yes people should be equally able to put out a bad game that tries to tell the story of Hamas as they are to put out CoD.

Shitty “political” shovelware deserves the same respect as every other instance of shovelware on Steam. Everyone ignoring it.

Other people.