I stumbled across this post after seeing the commentary by the writer and director about the show’s season 2 premiere. They were giving me bad vibes so I went to see if anyone else was feeling the same way. It turns out, yes. There are bad vibes all over the place. There are parallels to October 8th. for season 2 in favor of the Israelis, including the Hannibal Protocol, people being kidnapped, and so on.
And for those who don’t know, the show’s director previously directed Chernobyl. And of course he has anti-communist brainworms subsidized by fossil fuel companies on that show as well. He likes to hide behind “just asking questions” from the libbiest lib who ever libbed perspective.
A reminder that the Chernobyl show is incredibly ahistorical despite having pretenses towards historicity. For example, it portrays the scientist living in a apartment block alone, when in fact he lived happily on a farm with his family, a fact acknowledged by his daughter in interviews. This is as well as pretending that the people who were dealing with the crisis weren’t among the top in their field for nuclear science, and were a bunch of bumbling bureaucrats.
It also does not acknowledge that despite the Soviets lack of communication to the public, this was mostly due to the fact that they didn’t exactly know what was going on as well, and causing mass panic with misinformation is exactly the wrong thing to do in a crisis.
And don’t forget that the direct death count is in the 30-50 range. The UN says up to 4000 excess deaths over the 60 year post-disaster period. For the worst nuclear disaster. A disaster which can be prevented.
Compare that with the uncountable deaths yearly from coal burning. Which is a disaster that can’t be prevented (except by not doing it). And thats not including climate change. The Chernobyl disaster is nothing compare to the social murder occurring daily in America.
(Not to mention the USSR relocated thousands of people out of the area. Compare that any of the thousands of superfund sites, where there is basically no assistance to leave. And if you do get compensation its after decades of legal battles.)
So I haven’t played either game, but I have seen a bunch of Discoursetm about them, and I gotta say it’s weird how almost nobody who talks about this game ever talks about the Seraphites/WLF. Like I think I may have heard one or two reviewers mention them in passing but I had no idea what either group’s deal was until I read the post you linked.
I stumbled across this post after seeing the commentary by the writer and director about the show’s season 2 premiere. They were giving me bad vibes so I went to see if anyone else was feeling the same way. It turns out, yes. There are bad vibes all over the place. There are parallels to October 8th. for season 2 in favor of the Israelis, including the Hannibal Protocol, people being kidnapped, and so on.
And for those who don’t know, the show’s director previously directed Chernobyl. And of course he has anti-communist brainworms subsidized by fossil fuel companies on that show as well. He likes to hide behind “just asking questions” from the libbiest lib who ever libbed perspective.
A reminder that the Chernobyl show is incredibly ahistorical despite having pretenses towards historicity. For example, it portrays the scientist living in a apartment block alone, when in fact he lived happily on a farm with his family, a fact acknowledged by his daughter in interviews. This is as well as pretending that the people who were dealing with the crisis weren’t among the top in their field for nuclear science, and were a bunch of bumbling bureaucrats.
It also does not acknowledge that despite the Soviets lack of communication to the public, this was mostly due to the fact that they didn’t exactly know what was going on as well, and causing mass panic with misinformation is exactly the wrong thing to do in a crisis.
And don’t forget that the direct death count is in the 30-50 range. The UN says up to 4000 excess deaths over the 60 year post-disaster period. For the worst nuclear disaster. A disaster which can be prevented.
Compare that with the uncountable deaths yearly from coal burning. Which is a disaster that can’t be prevented (except by not doing it). And thats not including climate change. The Chernobyl disaster is nothing compare to the social murder occurring daily in America.
(Not to mention the USSR relocated thousands of people out of the area. Compare that any of the thousands of superfund sites, where there is basically no assistance to leave. And if you do get compensation its after decades of legal battles.)
So I haven’t played either game, but I have seen a bunch of Discoursetm about them, and I gotta say it’s weird how almost nobody who talks about this game ever talks about the Seraphites/WLF. Like I think I may have heard one or two reviewers mention them in passing but I had no idea what either group’s deal was until I read the post you linked.
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