Submitted 2 weeks ago by iamthetot@piefed.ca to games@lemmy.world
Donald Trump’s White House has launched Arcade.Gov, a site with mini-games where you catch and deport immigrants, or use Tetris blocks to build a border wall.
I know that this is potentially a spicy thing to post to this community, but I do think it is relevant to games and gaming. They are advertising it with using likenesses of major gaming brands.
This is something straight out of a parody movie, and even then, it would sound absurd.
What the heck is even going on in the US right now.
This is something straight out of a parody movie, and even then, it would sound absurd.
You could slap that same comment on nearly any article about Trump since his entry into politics. We live in a fucking circus.
Democracy kinda assumes people can tell the difference between dark chocolate and literal shit.
I ain’t clicking on that. I wonder what type of telemetry it’s gathering…
The link is to an IGN article, just in case there is any confusion, not the website itself.
Yes! Sorry for the confusion
A Ziff Davis joint? Probably about as bad as the real thing
Looks like you won’t miss anything. These look like cheap Ai slop generated slop slop.
I read a Kotaku article about them. They are basically clones of classic Atari style games with a racist angle.
Like Snake, but you are an ICE agent collecting “illegals” to deport in a snake line.
Or a Flappy Bird clone.
Jesus fucking Christ. The only thing keeping me going at this point is the pure hatred towards the people who support the current American regime.
I can’t kill myself before FFVII Revelation in April. After that all bets are off.
I mean, at least beat the game first
Is this Cloud’s piefed account 😭
Same. I feel like I need something else to look forward to just to keep me going. And it unfortunately ain’t Kingdom Hearts 4.
Do they have that one cool game where you play as a 15-year-old child trying to escape Epstein Island, or the other one where you mindlessly black out hundreds of thousands of lines of text while ironically mumbling “fidelity, bravery, integrity” to yourself over and over?
Is entire US of A a shitpost now?
No, shit posts are worthy of your time. Sometimes.
So many circuses, so little bread.
Let them eat cake!
How is this even legal? They blatantly use styling and brand recognition to imitate popular brands for selling their products.
“How is this even legal?” betrays a certain out-of-the-loopness. Trump’s is a post-law administration.
“Crime is legal now."—Coffeezilla
Tetris is already suing
I saw their statement basically disowning the affair, but didn’t see they are actually suing. Do you have a source?
Even ignoring that whole parody is protected speech thing, it’s only illegal if there’s someone doing something about it
Simple: Any company who sues gets sanctioned. It‘s a fascist oligarch government run by the Epstein class.
You see the trick is to fill the entire justice system with stooges who won’t prosecute you for anything. Then everything is legal.
Force the Jews beyond the medieval walls and out the city. The first player to rid the city of six Jews wins.
With illustrations of a ‘typical’ Jewish family on the move accompanied by the text, Off to Palestine!
Interestingly, that game was never sanctioned by the Nazis and leading figures actually disliked it for trivialising their serious goal of … genocide. It was a money grab product by a company that wanted to caah in on the jew hate.
Yes. The trump administration with their antiimmigrant propaganda game are literally worse than Himmler.
Gamergate was the worst thing to happen to this word
no. the worst thing to happen to this world is that we didn’t execute every single nazi and israeli filth the first time around. the second worst thing is that we didn’t make a law that made it illegal to be a nazi. the third worst thing to happen is that we didn’t execute filthy nazis on sight when they popped up in America.
So was Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller.
Now with malware!
This is an abomination.
Very Christian of them, indeed. Exactly the opposite of what the bible dictates.
My vocabulary lacks the words to express the disappointment, the lack of class and what not.
That’s what curse words are for.
We’re going to need to invent some stronger ones, I’m afraid
Tinfoil hat time-
They want the lawsuits. They’ve stacked the courts already, they’ll win and as a hedge the worst they’ll get is told to stop it.
They want the legal precedent from those smaller lawsuits, so Elon and Altman can just start wholesale ripping off games with Grok and GPT-6.
That would really be 4d chess. I’m not sure they are that smart.
I’m going to propose an alternative theory. I think the real reason is because they are childish, immature trolls and revel in causing other people’s misery. Although these two theories are not mutually exclusive.
Have you seen my AI generated parody of the live action Moana? We just added some Nazi tattoos to the Rock and called it good, it’s a statement on the duality of man, not copyright infringement or hate speech, trust me.
They were probably just copying the idea from “Operation Epic Furious Strait to Hell” and doing a game. These guys have no original ideas of their own.
So they decided that the best way to capture the attention of today’s youth is with clones of games made 30 or 40 years ago. Sure, you know what, good job White House, have a cookie. Everybody clap for how well they understand the children and teenagers of 2026.
I think they just seek to create controversy. They don’t care for young people or people at all.
I would not dismiss their influence so cavalierly. The shift right among male youth is very concerning and real.
They are also working on teenage girls with the “TERF” thing. Pink fascism is huge on Pinterest.
Your tax dollars at work!
This sounds like something out of a parody of Evil dystopian governments
I literally have a medical card that says I can buy the strongest weed and this still seems too high for me, what the actual fuck
Chuds complain about woke liberals making games, but when they make games of their own it’s shit like this.
Doing a game about a border wall using tetris, where every time you do a good row it disappears, is very MAGA coded, NGL…
Also, don’t let this distract you that Trump has raped little kids.
I’m confused as to how “MAGA”, a party political slogan, is allowed on a .gov domain. Seems like it should be illegal?
You’re confused how our government is doing illegal things? Have you not been paying attention?
This is satire right?
Yes, this season of Earth is satire. The writers have pivoted away from the Thriller Drama genre and gone for something more fun.
Many are disappointed by this tired sequel to the Gulf War movies as well, it doesn’t even have a cool name.
I look forward to when they’re replaced with Dig Dug to find the hidden Trumpcoin wallet from the bunker with the three corpses inside a serving cart.
E.T. the dipshit is et, and because the fucking game is bugged, we can’t get rid of him.
I…um…this timeline has gotten worse in the worst possible way.
I’m at a loss for words.
Whoever developed these games deserves all the cancers their dear leader canceled research for.
I feel like there’s a 99% chance it’s all vibe coded slop
A better link.
I’m so torn on headlines like this: on one hand, people should be angry and disgusted, vocally so. But on the other… like this is exactly the reaction they want.
The whole Trump social media team and administration are such chronically online 4chan losers that trolling is all they do, and people tend to fill up online chatter about these attention whore stunts instead of the ongoing ICE raids, the foreign interests buying up American assets, and the AI companies paying people to spread manufactured consent amongst local communities regarding approvals of data centers and surveillance tech.
The Harris campaign might have stopped calling them losers, but I never will.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if AI DDOS’d this site?
Your taxes paid for this
Trademark lawsuit from SEGA when
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You forgot to mention that it was made, built, shipped, sponsored by, and approved by pedophiles
Lots and lots of pedophiles
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
OK why are there so many pedophiles? There’s way more than I thought.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because we didn’t drag them out into the street for justice as we found them - for whatever reason these morons started electing them
TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I thought you were going to say Ai… but then maybe you did.