Girl Mode10 Apr 2024

Episode 70 - Sapphics Stay Winning

[CW: mentions of queerphobia, racism, and nazi imagery. We keep it as light as possible under the circumstances but please proceed with caution.]

Now that we’ve lured people in with Dragon’s Dogma 2 and sex stuff, we’re going back to what this podcast is really about — yelling about bigots! First, we talk about Rebekah Valentine’s recent reporting on Life is Strange developer Deck Nine, and how one shitty dude can make life miserable for a lot of people. Then we move on to Helldivers 2 and Signalis, two games that had a lot of fascists up in arms for very stupid reasons over the past week. I swear it’s not as much of a bummer as it sounds!

Timestamps

(00:15) Traditional episode 70 check-in

(08:00) Deck Nine’s very bad iceberg or, why we can’t have nice things

(28:20) Oh god, we have to talk about Mark Kern

(33:40) We get to talk about Signalis again, but at what cost?

(40:00) It’s hard to satirize fascism with fascists enjoying it because they’re too stupid to get that it’s satire

(58:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to (aside from tearing their hair out)?

Mentioned this week

How Many Clicks Does It Take To Get to the Center of Diablo?

How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine

Nick Calandra’s good thread about Mark Kern

For some Helldivers 2 players, the fascist role-play has gone too far

callie’s good thread about Signalis

See Zoe’s play!!!

Music

Street Food by FASSounds

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