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Starting from the bottom up is always useful. It gives you a pretty good idea whether the rest of the article is worth reading.Other role-playing games are also significant tools in the battle for young minds. Games like the Final Fantasy series, Secret of Mana, World of Warcraft, Chrono Trigger, Neverwinter Nights, and Warhammer are saturated with ancient, medieval, and archaeo-futuristic themes of European inspiration. In playing such games our youth might very well take an interest in the racial and cultural history of their people, then put down the in-game books and pick up some real ones about who we are.
Among the Elven peoples come the Altmer, or “High Elves,” who are a tall, golden-skinned, Aryan-like race that sees itself as superior to the other races; the Dunmer, or “Dark Elves,” a xenophobic and deeply religious group that reminds one of the ancient Hebrews (in no small reason because they were said to have departed from their proto-Elven kin under the leadership of a prophet who felt that they needed the guidance of different gods); the green-skinned and monstrous Orsimer (Orcs); and the Bosmer, or “Wood Elves,” who live in tree-top villages and embrace a pantheistic way of life.
Enemies at later points in the game will also hurl racial insults at the player: “All you Elves/Humans are the same: all flash and no fury!” If the player is in combat with an enemy of the same race, the latter will sometimes cry “You’re a traitor to your own race!” One would turn a lot of heads for uttering those words in the real world, especially if one is white. Nevertheless, such barrages constantly remind the player of racial differences, which is significant even if the message comes from a fictional universe.
Maybe I am just a nerd who gives too much credit to a form of modern entertainment. Be that as it may, one cannot deny the value that TES holds for white racialism. Of critical importance is that this game appeals predominantly to intelligent white people (with a few Asians thrown in). Being young myself, I have had a chance to observe the habits of American youth. One thing I have noticed is that the plebeian-minded simpletons always contented themselves with sports games and shoot’em ups, whereas the truly intelligent kids always go for role-playing games. Even if you went back in time to the 80s, before video games were as prevalent, you would see the student council members, chess club chairmen, math geniuses, and other future leaders of society spending their Friday nights slaying goblins and casting lightning bolts in the board game Dungeons and Dragons.
Now, with TES games, bright white youth are being overtly and covertly bombarded with racial concepts and Indo-European cultural themes. From the first five minutes of the game to the very end, they are exposed to a steady barrage of racial differences, physical anthropology, medieval Gothic architecture, feudalism, Indo-Aryan myths, and Greek and Nordic myths — a subliminal course in Indo-European humanities. For whites who care about our cultural legacy and genetic future, perhaps TES games will prove a useful weapon in our occult war against the Daedra of our world, that is, multiculturalism and decadent modernism.
Which was heavily downplayed (or altogether eliminated?) with Oblivion.Tamriel is currently ruled over by the great Cyrodiilic Empire which resembles Ancient Rome in its people, language, material culture, religion, and cosmopolitan social structure, among other things.
bhlaab said:I can't pinpoint the exact moment when this article goes from "Hmm! Interesting!" to "Heyy wait a minute"
Be that as it may, one cannot deny the value that TES holds for white racialism. Of critical importance is that this game appeals predominantly to intelligent white people (with a few Asians thrown in).
Erzherzog said:Very interesting article.
The thing I took most from it is understanding a bit of Oblivion's popularity. For us more hardcore RPG fans, Oblivion simply the next (but also poor) entry to a good series. To the masses that ended up buying it, it was their first experience with a very interesting game world and more importantly, the lore. Whereas to us the lore in Oblivion is a failure because it didn't build at all upon Morrowind, but to new fans it has all the lore Morrowind had that many of us enjoyed Morrowind for.
Dire Roach said:A superior article written by the same author: http://www.counter-currents.com/2010/07 ... e-to-game/
Just which Codexer is this Michael Bell? Is it nomask?
StrangeCase said:Erzherzog said:Very interesting article.
The thing I took most from it is understanding a bit of Oblivion's popularity. For us more hardcore RPG fans, Oblivion simply the next (but also poor) entry to a good series. To the masses that ended up buying it, it was their first experience with a very interesting game world and more importantly, the lore. Whereas to us the lore in Oblivion is a failure because it didn't build at all upon Morrowind, but to new fans it has all the lore Morrowind had that many of us enjoyed Morrowind for.
Yes, but just barely. There aren't enough LARPers to justify Oblivion's popularity on that merit alone. The game is popular because it's streamlined, accessible, and casual-friendly. It "opened up" the RPG to the mass market. Most of that demographic has moved on to FO3/Fable/similar games, and more or less think Oblivion is obsolete. Most of them don't know the first thing about Elder Scrolls lore, and most of them don't care.
I'm not at all impressed by his article. The whole white supremacy thing is enough as it is, but his conclusions are so inane and pointless they're almost comical. Nomask's idealogy might be repulsive, but at least he can make a point. This guy's a creep and a moron.
Dire Roach said:A superior article written by the same author: http://www.counter-currents.com/2010/07 ... e-to-game/
Just which Codexer is this Michael Bell? Is it nomask?
Be that as it may, one cannot deny the value that TES holds for white racialism.
Doubtful. Nomask doesn't like Oblivion and thinks Arena is the high point of the series.Dire Roach said:Just which Codexer is this Michael Bell? Is it nomask?