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The White House is making arcade games racist

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To be clear, the administration is making racist arcade games (e.g., a Tetris knock-off about the Mexican border that portrays Mexicans as literal aliens and zombies), not causing other people to make their arcade games racist.

https://arcade.gov

I'm disappointed they don't have a missile command clone where you have to shoot down the shaheds with your ever-dwindling stockpile of patriots before you lose every base in the Persian gulf.

If they were to make any missile command game, it would be targeting fishing boats.

nah missile command is the one where you're shooting down the missiles, despite its misleading name you're not actually in command of the missiles.

Fishing boats would be one of those old vertical-scrolling shoot-em-ups like 1942 or Raiden.

More likely to get a Prince of Persia where you go get gifted airplanes and make backroom deals to slice up Gaza for hotels

These games are toxic and dark, and would be moderated on a marketplace like Steam. And Steam has fair share of dark games.

i doubt it, there are quite a few low-quality asset-flip games build around politically-incorrect memes on steam.

The most controversial one I can think of is a school shooting simulator. But I doubt it's live now.

Even if there are dark games, they are meant to be parody/satire. Certainly not done in the same spirit what the white house is doing here.

Did you find the hidden adults-only setting on Steam? I'm not making this up, it's fairly well-hidden but there's an option on steam that filters out the porn games and racist meme-games by default.

The games that it gates are probably about 95% porn and only about 5% racist but the racist games are there ("tyrone vs cops VR", "cuck simulator", "goyslop", etc). I will admit some of them do at least look funny based on how they present themselves in the trailer but they're all obviously low-quality asset-flips that would've been considered slop even before the age of modern AI.

Curious who will be playing and enjoying these

I think that about a lot of vibe-coded games, most of the ones I see posted here are barely playable and rudimentary at best. And as propaganda games go, these aren't even very clever.

Isn't the goal of tetris to not build the wall!?!?

EDIT: good lord this is cringe, it doesn't even clear lines when you complete them. It's impossible to not get a game-over because the screen fills up regardless of whether or not you play well.

Not that I was ever expecting quality from Donald Trump's vibecode boomer-meme slop but I thought they could at least bother to correctly implement the simplest and most recognizable video game of all time, especially since it's going on whitehouse.gov.

My reply here is just bout the one quote. I more or less agree with the sentiment of your post. But..

Isn't the goal of tetris to not build the wall!?!?

I think the point of the game tetris is to build a wall or at least could be thought of that way. Each line that you completed and moves off the bottom of the screen is a completed section of wall and the goal is to make a hole free wall for as long as you can.

Can’t wait for the Epstein Files game, the Groping Women By The Pussy game, the Find The Allies game, the Meme Coin Grift meme, the Cut Medicaid Benefits game, the Start Random Wars game, and all the other Trump and MAGA accomplishments

The raping a thirteen year old girl and seemingly getting away with it game?

Why is building a wall racist?

Because the president of the US is trying to deflect attention from wanting to sleep with his daughter, having a sex trafficking friend and probably sleeping with children, and being bad at starting wars by blaming foreigners for Americas problems?

But you know this already.

I, for one, am over the sealioning of MAGA. Why ever engage with someone who literally never engages in good faith?

Those are all terrible things but none of them are racist, unless the word has a new meaning.

Disgusting? Xenophobic? Sure.

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