/vr/ - Retro Games

Now on the premise of Stray Dog, clearly it's based on a perception on all the BLM/Antifa rioting and violence that's been going on all this stupid year, and the way it's presented is so exaggerated that it's comical, which I say as a person who find myself disliking BLM and Antifa, a lot of what they do, their rhetoric, and ideology.
Start with the fact that you roll into town with your tank, and you're immediately beset on by bikers chucking molotovs (which somehow can damage your tank), vans taking shots at you (which seemingly do little to no damage), as well as guys on foot or in pickup trucks who are armed with anti tank rockets which will do a lot of damage to you. Now, I didn't maybe pay attention to all the news this spring/summer, but I'm pretty sure that lowlifes who tried to murder Kyle Rittenhouse weren't toting recoilless rifles with shaped charge warheads.

If you look at the whole thing, you see very small groups of rioters who are comically well armed, and then you, as a vigilante, decide to do something about it, by rolling in with your tank, flattening cars, blasting off high explosive bombshells, rattling off salvos with your 20mm cannon, and drinking beer for health. Combine with a bunch of stuff about "Don't worry about collateral damage." at least once contextualized as punishment for the dean of the college level for siding with or being sympathetic to the "DTF" (BLM stand-ins), and the image I get in my mind is of the city on fire as Spongebob declares to his friend that they saved the day, kind of defeats the point of stopping rioting and looting if you yourself is doling out your own millions and millions in property damage, recklessly endangering lives at every turn.

The idea with the level in pic related is to get the blockades out of the way so that firefighters can go and put out these burning buildings, which seems quaint when you're blowing so much shit up and firing wildly around you.