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Is "Papers, Please" inspired by real events or just the liberal perception of communist states? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by AdmiralDoohickey@lemmygrad.ml to c/games@lemmygrad.ml

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I find it hard to believe that your family could starve to death just from some mistakes but I might be in the "too positively biased against AES" stage of my radicalization journey

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[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He crafted the fictional nation of Arstotzka, fashioned as a totalitarian, 1982 Eastern Bloc state, with the player guided to uphold the glory of this country by rigorously checking passports and defeating those that might infiltrate it.

What was it that you wanted to show us from Wikipedia? Actually forgot it. We don't need to know.

[–] Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Honestly it has gotten to the point where if anyone mentions "glory" or "gloriousness" in context to socialism, socialist leaders or socialist states, I write it off as anticommunist jibber jabber.