I’m not sure if there’s a better title for this series, but basically I’ll be sharing unlicensed games that have political messaging relevant to the time the game was made. I was originally going to focus on console games but there’s exactly one old Windows game I wanted to include so whatever.
Terrifying 9.11 is a bootleg Game Boy Color game developed by Ruanxin (based out of Fuzhou, China) and released sometime 2002 (or possibly end of 2001). The game opens with a video montage of the planes hitting the twin towers while a chiptune rendition of Shir LaShalom plays. Pressing start brings up a little story crawl about 9/11 and the plan to send super soldiers into Afghanistan. Pressing start again opens a map screen and again into an exchange between Bush and Bin Laden. And then finally… Metal Slug. It’s a Metal Slug port. A surprisingly decent one!
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they accidentally made the Craftworld Eldar FALGSC so obviously, also the aesthetics are excellent. Loved them in the original Dawn of War too.
https://www.tiktok.com/@cerberusxt_figurines/video/7519077221269556502 these ones? yeah the whites could be better but is very pretty!
Yeah those ones! I tend to find Cerberus’ stuff a little gaudy in its colour ratios, but he’s undeniably a great painter and his corsairs are imo his best pride themed minis by far.
Ikr, it’s so funny how that happened. Especially when they’re the conservative eldar faction in lore. (Exodites not counted since they have hardly any societal lore atm, just game stuff from the old days. Deldar, while they’re ancap, are narratively treated as depraved vs the craftworlds being treated as stiflingly conservative with the paths system.) The most conservative eldar get is gay space communism, the Corsairs must be on levels of queerness we can’t even imagine.
It’s especially funny that this ends out reproducing itself as a dynamic among their fanbases where the Craftworlds reddit & discord are filled with conservative shitheels while the Corsairs one is queer and communist as hell lol. (Not to say there aren’t a lot of queer and communist craftworld fans, there certainly are, me included. It’s just the mainstream eldar communities are kinda shit)
i was going to say that, yea it’s
but i saw that the eldar corsairs reddit just straight up had a trans flag as a logo so i guess there are marginally better places on there.