The White House is making arcade games racist

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jdlshore•about 1 hour 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.

esalman•37 minutes ago

These games are toxic and dark, and would be moderated on a marketplace like Steam. And Steam has fair share of dark games.

snickerbockers•17 minutes ago

i doubt it, there are quite a few low-quality asset-flip games build around politically-incorrect memes on steam.

Cider9986•about 2 hours ago

https://arcade.gov

snickerbockers•15 minutes 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.

bitbasher•about 1 hour ago

Why is building a wall racist?

krapp•about 1 hour ago

Why are you pretending to be unaware of the political and cultural context of the last ten years, and the first Trump term? You know perfectly well why.

oilkillsbirds•about 1 hour 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.

nielsbot•about 2 hours ago

Curious who will be playing and enjoying these

krapp•about 1 hour 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.

snickerbockers•39 minutes 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.

The White House is making arcade games racist

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