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I can't really judge them. I'm playing Conan Exiles and planning out slave raids because I need thralls to increase the efficiency of my smelter complex so I can build a fortress because there are brown people (who worship an evil snake religion) invading to steal my stuff.
Honestly kind of breathtaking how non-specifically racist the conan games are (the conan books are extremely specific about their racism).
Like you go up to people, smack them unconscious with a club, TIE THEM UP AND DRAG THEM TO YOUR BASE. Like not hog tie them and throw them on your horse, you drag them along hte ground by a rope, possibly while riding your horse, then throw them on the "Wheel of Pain" from the Conan movie to break them to your will. Then you stick them on a crafting bench where they give you like a +10% boost to crafting efficiency or something.
Either way, back to the salt mines. Daddy needs several thousand iron reinforcements to bulk up the curtain walls so he can fend off the Stygians.
Seriously, though, there's an entire faction of racist stereotype African demon worshiping cannibals called the "Darfari". If anyone has links to epic takedowns on this game, please link them, because there's almost no aspect of this game that isn't so racist it should be self parody but isn't (The devs are Nordics (pejorative)). Like seriously the most powerful NPCs you can enslave is white psuedo-Germmanic dudes.
Also, like, everyone is naked all the time because reasons. The game is also unreasonably horny. There's a potion of enhancement if you catch my meaning.
It's like if you took the World of Warcraft "fantasy races based on lazy ethnic stereotypes" thing but forgot to make them blue trolls or pandas to obfuscate the racism. On the other hand, I guess it's about what I would expect from fucking Conan, a pulpy property that began in 1932
Oh and Howard was racist racist. Like I apparently either didn't recognize it or it didn't lodge in my memory when I was a kid, but HOLY SHIT going back through those books is a trip. Like bro chill the entire fuck out. Figures, though. He was pen pals with Lovecraft.