Along the same lines, I find it strange that Command & Conquer: Red Alert, in which the villified Russians invade the US, is a game that's very popular among Russians. From my experience playing Red Alert 2 online, Russians outnumbered everyone else by a high margin. Not that I care about race so much, but it's weird to see games that portray Russians or Germans as the big, bad evil guys that the just and noble good guys need to kill and murder to save the day, are popular with Russians or Germans. I mean, I would be hesitant and weireded-out to play a game made by Russians about, say, an alternate history or present where the big, bad Americans launched a surprise attack against their allies, captured Moscow, and hung American flags outside the Kremlin, where you play as a Russian hero shooting and pushing the Americans back out of the country, taking the fight to America, and blowing stuff up to force America to surrender and restore world peace. That's exactly what Red Alert 2 did in reverse, which, to me, never seemed anywhere near politically correct to do, even (or especially) in the cheesy, silly way it was done, yet those I would have expected it to be controversial with ended up loving it. I'm glad there wasn't any controversy (I hadn't seen any), but it's weird, isn't it? I'm shrugging my shoulders.
Dang it, I'm trying to not make it sound racist, but it's so hard to be sure how you're going to read this, I'm almost certain I'm going to get into trouble. Maybe I'll just delete the entire thing so I won't have to worry about it.
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