A good primer from the American Library Association includes Arendt, Snyder, and Stanley and others to check out...Haven't read the Robert Paxton work but is quoted here for some more expansive definitions: www.ala.org/sites/defaul...

Council on Foreign Relations: fascist regimes are "revolutionary," seeking the overthrow of existing systems of government and the persecution of political enemies. However, such regimes are also highly conservative in their championing of traditional values.” education.cfr.org/learn/learni...

"...characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy."

And when you do end up using the gun, it's unsatisfying by comparison.

There's definitely a post colonial take that would require more dialog slog; many of the ethical dilemmas involve the lesser of two shit choices but the NPCs sometimes display characteristics of prototypical post colonial archetypes (i.e. comprador).

#avowed #criticalmedia #postcolonial #videogames

Activating this (default?) will cause others to respond accordingly. Seems mostly limited to small dialogic shifts but no one has outright dismissed me yet (that I can tell anyways). Big question: is the Godlike player-character a DEI hire?