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That reason is I've watched roughly and near-exactly this trailer five fucking years ago. You can still find it on Youtube if you bother to look. Fuck it, I'll do it myself. LOOK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMSGlZSL0DE

And that isn't the only time, or even the first. I'm genuinely amazed that this grift is so perfect that the same vaporware can get polished up again and again, spinning its wheels in place, and people on the official forum and in Youtube comments say they're in tears about this.

I won't say I respect the hustle because I don't lick boots, but I am truly impressed with how powerful this grift is that it's self-perpetuating with that little to show for it over half a billion dollars and over a decade later.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIE Fighter is one of my old problematic favorites considering you fly as space fascists and it makes the space fascists seem cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if that game was where all the ”DAE Empire cool tho?” shit started. It was really the first time the Empire was portrayed in a not cartoonish way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You may be right, and that said, I'd be fine if the Empire was portrayed in a Wolfenstein "real shit actually horrifying" way more often.