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In how many ways is Varg Vikernes’s white supremacist game the worst? Let us enumerate
Where, if anywhere, is the line between casually offensive videogames and transparently hateful videogames situated? How many white, male playable characters and tokenized female or minority NPCs does a game need before we declare that the whole enterprise is rotten? These questions come up with alarming frequency when examining videogames, yet for all the tropes and slights—or, to use a mot juste, microaggressions—the line separating “problematic” games and hateful games is usually seen as incredibly difficult to cross. It’s never been easier to create a stupidly offensive game, yet it’s not getting that much easier to declare the whole edifice rotten to…