media not only captures, but often sets the bounds of it's consumers imagination so one of the more dangerous things you can do to have a conservative effect on the world around you is to let assumptions about society slip into hard coded mechanics as a video game designer. players not being even given the option to break the law, all of society acting instantly in unison against them at a transgression, many mechanics that produce something like property, gendered mechanical differences, all of this stuff subtly but very firmly reproduces a conservative society in the minds of the consumer. in this essay i will explain why me not being able to kill the gnome mage that took my fishing node because i'm alliance makes me a victim of fascism