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"I am Jesus Christ" and Other Games About Jews - Jacob Geller (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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This is possibly one of the best videos he has put out and I was actually floored when I realized he was actually building up to comparing Bioshock and Rapture City to Zionism and Israel. I never would have made that connection in a million years (never played the game) and yet the way he works up to all but stating it while the images behind him fade to showing the destruction of Gaza hit like a fucking train.

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[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i'll give Geller some benefit of the doubt based on previous work, but I immediately notice that Palestine had people living there forever and Rapture was built in the ocean.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

It's made pretty clear by Ken Levin himself that it was not until after the game's release that he began to re-examine some of the subconscious themes of the game (like how one of the characters in the game is literally a Jewish holocaust survivor that participated in Nazi human experimentation to save her own skin). It's a pretty great video and he stops short of drawing a one to one comparison probably for that reason.