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Turns out that fascists like fascism.
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Satirizing fascists is really hard because there are irl fascists who use baby talk to spread their bullshit. If that wasn't our reality and someone wrote a game about fascists who say "fren let's make a heckin good Aryan ethno state" the author would be laughed out of the room.
I don't think they were attempting satire in the first place, is what I'm saying. It feels like they were trying to make something believable - if fascism were to coalesce in the post-nuclear world, this is what it might look like, at least that's the impression I got. Caesar liking Roman aesthetics doesn't strike me as any weirder than Hitler being into like runes and shit.
Yeah I agree. Was trying to say that an earnest attempt at portraying fascism is difficult to separate from satire because of how stupid Fascism is irl.
I've always felt like if you want your satire of fascism to actually land for the fascists themselves, you've gotta really punch below the belt and make the fascists in your work of art extremely cringe. Like imagine you meet Caesar and he's all serious, but then you go into his room and it's a weeb den with a bunch of body pillows and sex asses and shit.