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Episode 8: Video Games Are Bad, Actually

Episode 8: Video Games Are Bad, Actually

Released Tuesday, 9th April 2019
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Episode 8: Video Games Are Bad, Actually

Episode 8: Video Games Are Bad, Actually

Episode 8: Video Games Are Bad, Actually

Episode 8: Video Games Are Bad, Actually

Tuesday, 9th April 2019
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Content warnings: Anti-black racism, antisemitism, mentions of the Holocaust, mentions of slavery, domestic violence, references to sexual assault, murder, death, violence, mentions of stereotyped drug abuse, mentions of android body horror, fatphobia, transphobia, and generally just a lot of co-opting of real-life struggles in an allegory about androids gaining freedom and rights.

Amanda had the bright idea of exploring problematic media and talking about the ways in which you can like problematic things, but she might have erred upon choosing—and digging deep into researching—the video game *Detroit: Become Human* as her example. Amanda acknowledges the cool parts of the game (and its fandom) but struggles to get past its egregious racism, antisemitism, bad allegory, and troublesome depictions of trauma. A broader conversations is had throughout the episode, with questions like: How *do* you engage with problematic media? Where have Austin and Amanda personally drawn the line and disengaged, and why? And can kinky android fanfic redeem a game?

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