Gabriel Dube
Notorious Legion
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Posted - 2014.05.14 10:28:00 -
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Katran Luftschreck wrote:Well the Amarrian's are done with a mix of the Knights of Templar (military) and Islamic expansionism (government), which is all part of CCP's PR campaign to sell them as "bad guys" by pandering to classic nerdy anti-religious fervor and classical white-guy xenophobia. *golf clap*
This is the same PR firm that tries to sell the Republic as the "good guys" by painting them as eternal victims and a society falling squarely in the Hollywood slurp-fest of Native American worship as seen in films like "Avatar," again pandering to classic knee-jerk white-guy liberalism and completely ignoring any interesting not-so-coincidental similarities between the Minmatar tribes and, oh yeah, the real life Mongol horde that killed more people than everything else in the world.
Also on the PR table is trying to somehow link all the doctrines of extreme free-market capitalism with a vision of an oppressive, totalitarian state, which is something any sensible person would look at and say "lolwut?" but somehow they've managed to pull it off with the Caldari - again painting "bad guy" over knee-jerk white-guy anger at Wall Street and economic injustice.
And finally, the most boring of real-world models is obviously the Federation, designed from the get-go to lure in every naive wannabe political activist in the world with their democratic idealism and love of "freedom" ... though here I gotta say CCP did a pretty good job, because they've been mirroring the USA too closely, with "freedom" not applying to dissidents, people disappearing to the secret police and constantly trying to shove their ideals of "freedom" down everyone else's throats at the point of a gun. So this really was nicely done, actually.
Oh sorry, we're we talking about crossovers between in-game empire or crossovers between in-game empire and real life empires? Oppsie!
For similar, but still invalid arguments:
The Amarr empire are the true USA equivalent in eve! [Because devs always want to deliberately include a stereotypically caricatured RL country in their game. Always. And it's always your country. Yeah, that one. Can't possibly be another.]
The "either with us or against us" mentality? Check. Imperialism? Check. The will to establish a cultural or ideological hegemony? Check. Religious fundamentalism? Check. Weird sects and death cults? Check. Large part of the population actively prepare for the apocalypse/judgement day? Check. Built their nation on slavery? Check.
OR, we may all be mislead, and the MINMATAR, of all people, are the real americans:
Black president/head of state/glorious leader? Check. Freedom-loving? Check. Fight against tyranny and kill in the name of international justice? Check. Violently opposes/abolishes slavery? Check. Redneck/Ghetto style scrapmetal rigging? Check. Outstanding inventors and engineers? Check. Lots of Big F. Guns/overcompensating? Check.
OR, the Amarr-Minmatar conflict is just a huge analogy for the american civil war!!! etc....
Most, if not all of the above criteria describing the empires of New Eden could pretty much apply to the USA just as well as they would to France or the UK or to most countries with a history of *gasp* imperialism. |