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Video Game Review: The Presidency of Donald Trump 2017–2021
As I have previously stated, the time has come for us all to start taking this stuff seriously. Nihilism is taking life literally, but not seriously. Faith is taking it seriously, not literally. God is, structurally, a joke. It’s time to grow up. It’s time ascend to the next level. Making Anime Real is going to have to wait. First, we have to make video games real. First, we have to make video game reviews real.
Introduction
In 2016 I was convinced The Presidency of Donald Trump 2016–2021 would never be released. I assumed it was Star Citizen 2, failware and pure marketing that would never be finished. A financial scam, but like Star Citizen, kind of interesting to watch unfold. I awoke that November morning to mild shock — they actually put out a game. There had been no gameplay reveals, only pre-rendered cutscenes and big promises, and then suddenly out of nowhere, bam, released a full game.
I only logged in to the game some months later, in 2017. Instantly I realised that I had missed a lot of drama and community lore that had developed over the open beta through 2015–16. Despite this, I made grandiose claims, to the extremely busty african-american girl studying abroad, who I was trying…
