But teaching people to favour the consistency of imaginary worlds may also teach them to vilify disagreement and the entire practice of interpretation. At its nastiest, this mentality both facilitates and camouflages bigotry.

I mean... it's a game. The RP in RPG is role playing. Isn't part of the fun playing someone or something you're not? I play the other gender in games because I'm not that gender. In Mass Effect I love playing renegade - punching reporters in the face even though I'm not like that in real life. This is the same stupid argument I've heard all the time. "Grand Theft Auto encourages violence". No. It's fun because we get to play this character who is so unlike ourselves.

In Halo I played a bioengineered soldier who was ripped away from his family to put down violent uprisings. Does that mean I think that's okay in real life? Or was I playing a game that set that as a premise?

Do we apply the same scrutiny to movies? To theater? Just because we empathize or maybe even we admit that there is a part of us who want to speed through downtown Los Santos just for fun doesn't mean that's who we actually are.

Space Marine 2 Is Too Busy Making You Feel Heroic to Show the Farce at Warhammer 40K’s Heart

I’ve long enjoyed Warhammer 40K, but so often the people who write fiction for the setting struggle to handle the black satire that sits at the heart of the setting.

The problem is there’s a non-insignificant sexist, racist, and toxic portion of the Warhammer fanbase that tend to think the Imperium is correct in its methods. Newcomers might play it and not understand what the setting is truly about.

Ironic fascism: Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert

I liked playing SM2, but they should do more against the racists fanbase.

Does the author struggle with the concept of fiction?