seeing news about the fallout remaster announcement feels like cruel irony to me
microsoft games are a bds boycott target, and because both bethesda + obsidian are owned by microsoft, this includes the games published by them.
microsoft is gonna further profit from a new virtual playground of ~post-apocalyptic bombed out towns in the desert~ while contributing to creating bombed out apocalyptic conditions in gazan towns, by collaborating with israel on so many fronts that bds calls microsoft the most complicit company in palestinian genocide.
and nostalgia-baited fans will still buy it bc playing pretend in a virtual world thats a knockoff of what real life people are currently facing – a virtual world funded by that very suffering of those real life people – is more important to them than simply playing a different game
anyway, to make this rant productive – if you have the means to send donations to palestine, heres some community initiatives:
Mona’s community aid initiative – verified by el-shab-hussein
The Sameer Project – has a british partner org, so UK folks can donate with gift aid here with no transfer fees
Revive Gaza Farmlands – has a canadian partner org, so canadians can donate via direct bank transfers with no transfer fee
Crips for eSims for Gaza – canda-based, so canadian e-transfers saves on transaction fees
