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The original was posted on /r/honkaistarrail by /u/Jchampioni on 2024-11-15 01:34:30+00:00.

Hey gamers, so I know the update has been out for a little while now so discussion of the story has mostly died down but I did wanna bring something up because I feel like it was a major theme but nobody I’ve seen has mentioned it.

This something would be how people in positions of power use “memes” and internet humor to push their own agenda and sort of convince people to do something that they might not normally do because they want to “fit in” and be able to be in on the joke. I was really impressed and happy to see something like this be written into a video game because in my mind it has been a growing issue in the online world. I don’t want to get political at all, but you constantly see social media very obviously pushing certain ideologies and it can be difficult for even the most critical of thinkers to wade through that mud and get to things that aren’t just trying to push something.

Obviously this is a very complicated issue and it can’t just be solved by the means that are done in the game but, I don’t know, I thought it was really cool for a game like this, a space comedy where you’re just a wandering interplanetary tourist, to bring light to an issue like this because I haven’t really seen it be discussed in any form of media.

Anyway, please discuss in the comments, I don’t really know where I was planning to go with this post I just wanted to call attention to a cool thing. Thanks, see ya.