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I may get around to talking about the rest of gaming news, but it’s going to be hard to get past this first. In my GeekyDomain gig I’m obligated to talk about game trends. Recently when I browse Steam, one game kept shoving itself into my face over and over. Judging from its top-rated position, it seems to be the hottest (oh God stop the puns already!) free casual game lately.<\/p>\n

I’ve been tricked into playing a game about seducing demons<\/strong><\/h2>\n

So I tried it, beat it even (it takes minutes), and found out what the big deal was. Helltaker<\/em> is an indie dating sim about assembling a harem of demon girls<\/a>, after some obligatory puzzle and bullet hell elements. And you, all you depraved people, you wretched goblins made me play that just to see what all the fuss was about.<\/p>\n

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So now we know why half the fanart base has been taken over by devil girls eating pancakes lately. And honestly, even if I’m not down with this particular scene, I get it, I really do. I even analyze why in that post.<\/p>\n

But that doesn’t mean that I quit finding all things concerned with Satanism and Hell to be side-splittingly hilarious. I love how Zdrada has a cross necklace. It’s amazing how well one indie Polish developer managed to capture Western humor so adeptly. That’s vanripper<\/a> if you want to follow him to see what devilment he gets up to next.<\/p>\n

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Seriously, I “get” the demon thing<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I point out in that post why people are pre-wired by our culture to associate wickedness with a perfectly healthy biological function like sex. It’s because the oppressive Fascism of the Religious Right, a boot stamping on all our faces forever, pretty much backs us all into a corner. This keeps up until we have no choice<\/strong> but to throw the heavy metal horns and yell “Yo Satan” if we choose to believe in science<\/a>, progress, civilization, civil rights, human rights, common sense, or simply not being a braying jackass.<\/p>\n

It’s why the Satanic Temple had to declare abortions a sacrament<\/a> protected by religious freedom. That’s it, we no longer have a choice to just be rational, logical beings in this demon-haunted world. The only way to escape persecution in the name of one made-up invisible sky goblin is to throw in your lot with the opposing one.<\/p>\n

I just dunno if having a fetish for demons upholds the whole spirit of the ideal, but you people do you. I’m not kidding about the fanart, which I found at first on Pornhub:<\/p>\n