The strags of /r/DragonAge deleted a very dramatic thread and I CAN'T FIND IT, because I was browsing on another PC 
Anyways I'm turning this into a rant post.
You guys ever get tired of these /r/GaymingCircleJerk leftoid fricks who reiterate and regurgitate the constant mEDIA lITERACY talking point about how the in-universe of a media supports THEIR particular brand of modern contemporary PRESSENTISM views? 
You know the types - well over the past year since the Dragon Age FAILGUARD 
slapfights, a lot of liberal peeps have been denouncing the originator of the series (DA Origins 2009) to make Veilguard seem less shitty in retroactive comparison, especially in terms of writing and in-universe political lore.
And one constant r-sluration they continued to spout was that apparently that they could not figure of what precisely the game (DA Origins 2009) was trying to say in terms of it's political commentary.
An example is even way back when, when Zero Punctuation guy stated in his video from like 10 years ago, he could not grasp "wtf the game was trying to say politically"
as in all of these shitlibs could not comprehend what the political message was trying be!
Because in-universe for the ignorant, magic users (mages) live a double-edged life. Magic comes at a cost, basically mages are connected to an ethereal dream dimension called the Fade, from which they draw their power, and in-universe mages are very very powerful. But stupid or poorly disciplined or foolish mages can easily be possessed by entities from this dream dimension and lose their minds,
and basically become rogue school shooters with flamethrowers and rocket launchers attached to their arms, and completely devastate communities, causing mass shooting casaulties in the hundreds before being taken down by Dark Age police. Because of this, mages are feared and ostracized, and kidnapped when they show magic attunement during their adolescence, and forced to live their lives in these Wizard Tower prisons their whole lives. Except when the lord of the land conscripts their talents to flamethrower fantasy orc zombies every decade or so
Point is this grimdark gimmick, makes being a very power magic user in-universe, just as much of a massive bane as a boon, and the whole setting and its medieval in-universe morality and politics are shaped by this.
You as the player character can shape the world into adhering to this Wizard Tower Prison doctrine for the safety of the community or advocate for freedom and other boring shit for the school shooter mages.
But of course shitlibs are so neurodivergent, they are like: WHO IS THIS GAME REFERRING TO? The gays, the jews or the blacks? 
They are too foidbrained to realize that all of the fake fiction morality and politics are unique and explicitly not dependent upon real world events. They take inspiration from history, but create their own unique in-universe setting.
The amount of midwits and Medea Literacycels who endlessly type how confused they are about Elf ghettos and what the games are trying to say is funny.
It reminds me also of Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, and the 3hour philosophy Youtube videos and reddit sneeds about how the fake fictional in-universe factions and their unique moralities TOTALLY supports their modern contemporary commie beliefs.
It's ironic that they espouse the Media Literacy meme so much 
and then display their confusion at fictionalized factions and fake in-universe moralities and moral conflicts.
It's like they have something like Reverse-Media-Literacy-Illiteracy or whatever. Like they are incapable of interpreting new complex questions and moral conundrums posed to them (by vidya slop standards) by new unique settings which do not adhere to the secular religious doctrines of modern Presentism Shitlibery.
It's like they are like 
OMG WHO IS THE GOOD GUY AND BAD GUY whenever they are confronted with fantasy morality that isn't turbo wingcuck propaganda
"My PRESENTISM Youtube Philosophy Tuber hasn't spoken about how Crapitalism is evil about this shooter game yet! HOW am i supposed to know who to vie for!?"
As in they literally cannot comprehend fictional moral complexity OUTSIDE of the framework of their current contemporary modern day shitlib doctrines
I've fricking seen r-slurs be like "I don't understand what Ursula Leguin was saying in Left Hand of Darkness" cuz they cannot shoehorn their Presentism into the unique worldbuilding of a Novel written 60 years ago.
!bookworms what do YOU 
guys think of this
.webp?h=11 "Nuzzles, pounces on you, UwU, you're so warm!..")
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One of the other consequences of media literacy is that it leads to fear from the writers in adding plot elements that they know their audience will try to connect to real events.
You see this most in Veilguard by the refusal of the writers to address the elf question.
I definitely assumed that Veilguard would be the story of the elves. After all, for better or worse (def worse), the question of mages vs templars had essentially been answered in inquisition, leaving the Elf question to be the last to be awnsered.
Did the Elves deserve revenge for how they've been treated? Should their immortality be restored? What would a world with a re-empowered elves look like?
Especially because the game was originally about the Elven god Solas, and taking in place the center of Elf oppression, Tevinter, i think its hard to blame me for having these expectations.
The Veilguard writers turned the premise on it's head by dropping all the exposition about how the Elf creators are the cause of pretty much every bad thing in the DA setting, even having them being the first sinners by what they did to the Titans/Dwarves
This could have been really interesting, but the player and game world never ties these revelations to the state of the elves themselves. Instead, the status of the Elves is just ignored entirely for a smaller story that hyper focuses on the actions of the evil gods themselves.... So boring. There isn't even really a character that represents the Dalish. Your one sorta Dalish companion basically has nothing to say but that she feels bad... great
Obviously they where terrified of having their oppression stand-ins actually be complex and not just total victims
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Bioware have been doing it for a while, the Genophage in ME1 merely brought down the fertility rate of the Krogan to match the other species with the debate being on the ethics of bioweapons and how Krogan culture couldn't cope with the shock of 99.9% of eggs being dead. Then ME2 makes it a sterility plague with some immune to it and 3 turns it into i made him a steak that no one but the most evil of evildoers would choose to perpetuate. Large commercial fiction is allergic to anything that might be controversial. The genophage or elves in early installments has the room to be actually nuanced and interesting but then by the time its got a mass audience it has to be wholesome chungus Manichaean morality. I hate what ME2 did to Mass Effect.
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Mordin: "Noooo we need to heckin cure them!!!!!1! I was le evil!!!"
Me: "say hi to Malthus"
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I hope you had chatgpt pen that one fam
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