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Metal Gear is 100% correct. (No DSP Marsey yet)
I played it recently and I was LOL-ing
at the unsubtle speeches over how nuclear waste can't be disposed of 
and how the US government was developing this terrifying new weapon that was probably comparable to Trident 
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The whole message of MGS1 is to forge your own path. Meryl, Otacon and Grey Fox all railroaded themselves into the only path they thought they had and hated themselves for it, Naomi's speech of not letting yourself be ruled by your genes feels antithetical to idpol wokeshit, though you could probably twist that to mean
stuff, but it's a bit of a stretch. It's obviously heavily political but not woke in the sense that it's usually used.
Then again it is a little homoerotic to ride a snowmobile with your bro (that's why I let Meryl die)
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Genetic determinism is woke now?
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Not what I said, but the notion that you shouldn't be ruled by your genes seems less compatible with ideas like white/male privilege or progressive stacks than the outright rejection of genetic determinism altogether.
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Thank you for actually understanding the game. Praise be to the dramatard that actually played the game.
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this must be the third "obvious and correct" interpretation of MGS I see in this thread
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It's also a game where you can jerk off to bikini posters in lockers. It is not woke lmao.
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If by woke you mean "politically left-wing" then yeah it's woke. If by woke you mean "corporately sanitized" then, yeah, not woke. But neither is something like Disco Elysium, which many would say is one of the most "woke" games of all time.
There's also games like Hades which are extremely sexualized but filled with alphabet squad and polyamory and shit. Is this "woke" though?
I think "corporate-feeling forced diversity" is how I usually think of "woke," and obviously this is usually a detriment to media. I'd say Baldur's Gate 3 or Valorant or other modern successful AAA games would be the example of good versions of these games.
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Marsey smashing a controller would be a good one
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