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EPISODE · Aug 7, 2020

Episode 4: Black-and-White Morality Dumbs Down Video Games

from Splash Damage · host Scrivonaut

Polygon thinks video games should regress to black-and-white stories and characters where heroes are perfect and villains are cartoonishly evil. We blast that hot take and talk about depictions of racism in Red Dead Redemption 2, The Matrix being an allegory for gender transition, the term "race" being removed from Dungeons & Dragons, and how Persona 5's depiction of predatory women is not men's fault.

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