The White House is making arcade games racist(www.theverge.com)
19 pointsby OxO45 hours ago6 comments
  • jdlshore4 hours ago
    To be clear, the administration is making racist arcade games (e.g., a Tetris knock-off about the Mexican border that portrays Mexicans as literal aliens and zombies), not causing other people to make their arcade games racist.
  • Cider99865 hours ago
    https://arcade.gov
    • snickerbockers3 hours ago
      I'm disappointed they don't have a missile command clone where you have to shoot down the shaheds with your ever-dwindling stockpile of patriots before you lose every base in the Persian gulf.
  • esalman3 hours ago
    These games are toxic and dark, and would be moderated on a marketplace like Steam. And Steam has fair share of dark games.
    • snickerbockers3 hours ago
      i doubt it, there are quite a few low-quality asset-flip games build around politically-incorrect memes on steam.
      • esalmanan hour ago
        The most controversial one I can think of is a school shooting simulator. But I doubt it's live now.

        Even if there are dark games, they are meant to be parody/satire. Certainly not done in the same spirit what the white house is doing here.

  • nielsbot4 hours ago
    Curious who will be playing and enjoying these
    • krapp4 hours ago
      I think that about a lot of vibe-coded games, most of the ones I see posted here are barely playable and rudimentary at best. And as propaganda games go, these aren't even very clever.
  • bitbasher4 hours ago
    Why is building a wall racist?
    • 4 hours ago
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    • oilkillsbirds4 hours ago
      It’s not. It’s a border and if you’re not a child you understand why borders are necessary and why literally every country has one. But this board is full of leftists so good luck.
  • snickerbockers3 hours ago
    Isn't the goal of tetris to not build the wall!?!?

    EDIT: good lord this is cringe, it doesn't even clear lines when you complete them. It's impossible to not get a game-over because the screen fills up regardless of whether or not you play well.

    Not that I was ever expecting quality from Donald Trump's vibecode boomer-meme slop but I thought they could at least bother to correctly implement the simplest and most recognizable video game of all time, especially since it's going on whitehouse.gov.

    • tocs33 hours ago
      My reply here is just bout the one quote. I more or less agree with the sentiment of your post. But..

      Isn't the goal of tetris to not build the wall!?!?

      I think the point of the game tetris is to build a wall or at least could be thought of that way. Each line that you completed and moves off the bottom of the screen is a completed section of wall and the goal is to make a hole free wall for as long as you can.