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[-] mickey@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is funny to think of being in school and having that painting on the left presented as "What do you think of this? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?" My sibling in Christ, it is an allegorical representation of the ideology of white supremacy. But at least I can understand how teachers and textbooks are handcuffed from slapping kids in the face with that.

But then you get older and encounter aunties and uncs who are like, "Well is that such a bad thing?" And yes, it is the manifestation of white nationalism! You are a white nationalist! Anyway, I clearly am not carrying around unresolved resentment, and I hope you are all having a fine evening.

Also to stay on topic, I don't really play these types of games but I feel like Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox boss fight would be fun. Like in Doom 2016 where there's that midgame boss in Hell that splits into two guys.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

Literally the physical manifestation of the ideology that white people are entitled to land that non-white people have been living on for millennia

Reactionaries: is it really racist though?

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 month ago

A 4 phase boss that are the faces in Mount Rushmore breaking free one by one. They are just giant heads with tiny baby legs though, and stumble around falling into you for their attacks.

[-] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Great idea. I was thinking it should be one body, but the heads would rotate after each phase.

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

That’s good as well, but I like the idea of the switcharoo of them actually not being giants, like how people get disappointed seeing it for the first time cause it’s actually not that big

[-] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

Main character should be indigenous

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

Well yeah obviously; instead of classes it should be a choice between members of different indigenous nations

[-] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Hong Kong 97 except it's Turtle Island 1492

[-] corvidenjoyer@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Can we get a black person as a deuteragonist who then goes on to singlehandedly lead a protracted peoples war aganist the prison industrical complex in an expansion? Like black flag?

[-] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago
[-] Krem@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

George washing tons of backs in the bathhouse

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

remember the guy who thought paul bunyan was a real person

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

I mean he's just kind of a name that you hear, if you never learn about the legend I think it would be easy to just assume he was at the Alamo or something.

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

plus he often gets brought up alongside the more fantastical stuff attributed to Davy Crockett, who was a real guy

[-] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Johnny Appleseed also a real guy

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Paul Bunyan was real, and he was Chinese.

Source: Trying to start ironic Chinese Hotep-ism

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

if we corrupted yeshua into "jesus" and all the stories about him are dubious at best but he was still a real guy then i'm probably willing to believe somebody with a glandular disorder cut down a tree one time who had a name that slant-rhymes with bunyan in an old-timey accent.

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Paul is originally a semitic name (Middle East) and Boonyaan is the Arabic word for buildings....Paul Bunyan was maybe an Arab Jewish person?

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

oh shit paul bunyan is mormon jesus

[-] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago

I'd like to take down the giant hand of the free market.

[-] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

Me preparing on Super Smash Bros. Melee as a kid to defeat giant hands

[-] romaselli@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 month ago

Final boss battle

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

Statue of liberty as a giant mecha you can control like in doom the dark ages

[-] Graphite2@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Clair Obscur: Copper Gear Rising

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

mount rushmore is actually a 5 headed demon

[-] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago
[-] kristina@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

That's the fun part

[-] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Where is it?

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Imagining a Kojima soulslike where they would 1000% do this.

[-] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

I mean sure big boss battles sounds cool too, but I'd be way more into a game playing as Mr. Bunyan, starting off as a regular woods-guy, but steadily growing bigger and bigger as your legendary appetite for flapjacks grows and you axe-ing abilities are sharpened.

Even better, the industries grow and develop with you as you're able to supply them with an ever-increasing supply of lumber. Naturally though, you eventually get to the point where you are outstripping the regrowth programs, and you have to start wandering deeper into untamed wilds full of ever-more-vengeful crytpids that no longer have homes or natural resources to feed themselves and have turned to terrorizing human settlements to get by.

In the end, Bunyan's connection to the wild allows him to realize the extent of the devastation he has wrought upon the land, and he realizes the only way for the natural balance to be restored is to stop the logging altogether, which naturally makes him the enemy of the insatiable appetites of the humans and their industry (acting as a narrative parrelel to his own pancake dependency), turning them against him and making for cool new lumber-mechas to battle in the last stage of the game.

Even better, the player has the unspoken option to turn against human industry at any point in the game, but the battle gets harder and harder the longer you wait to pull the trigger, eventually just becoming nigh-impossible by the time the humans develop guns, bombs, drones etc. (The secret cheat code though is that you can collectivise and organize the other workers to join you and they can help you in the final struggle.)

So basically it's Katamari Damaci but played out in a reverse-Zelda BotW progression structure.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

i could swear i've played a game with a similar narrative progression but i can't for the life of me remember what it was

[-] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Well figure it out and let me know cuz that sounds cool lol.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

obviously not paul bunyan specifically, just the broad "second act is realizing you're being mislead and used for evil, third act is rampaging through your former allies"

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

player character John Henry

[-] abc@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

hell yeah the game intro can be him in a tunnel driving steel much like the Elden Ring intro with Marika/Radagon. Disney's 2000 movie about John Henry basically

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

There's a movie?! Is it all as beautifully animated as this gif?

[-] abc@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

More of ahistorical short film than a feature length film, but yeah it is part of a collection that has shorts about Johnny Appleseed, Paul Henry, and like Paul Bunyan. I remember watching it in elementary school social studies and it is the only reason I actually know who John Henry is because I certainly didn't learn about him in any other history class.

Here's a (mid quality) link to the short itself if you wanna watch it: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8j5793

[-] jack@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Alternative PCs:

Tecumseh

John Brown

Pocahontas

Sitting Bull

Nat Turner

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Okay, this idea goes hard af.

[-] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

There should be a giant burger monster that spawns adds.

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

I'd play this, for sure

[-] Gamer_time@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Grayfruit??? Gruit on my hexed bear??? shock

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

i think one of those xbox ninja gaidens you fight the statue of liberty

[-] TheDeed@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago
[-] blunder@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Why Paul Bunyan kinda-

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Fucked up they depicted manifest destiny like that. No wonder Americans are how they are

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