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Games

from War Against War by Nyentek

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When I was young I played games
Games with the swords, and games with the guns
Playing war, you might call it
Trivialize the most hideous
Aspects of human experience
And make them palatable

I watched the colored dots
Form humanoid forms
To soon be obliterated
And scattered to the corners of the room

Soldier of Fortune
That was the first
Where the limbs would fly off
At least in Quake
The bodies would disappear
When you killed the Strogg

What lessons did I learn
From Urban Terror, Unreal Tournament
The egomaniacal rule
Of species in Starcraft?
That life and death are entertainment
That opposing forces must be crushed
Into submission
I learn from Counter-Strike
That I’m the good guy, and my opponent
Is a terrorist
And when my friend plays, they’re the good guy
And I’m the terrorist

But that’s how it goes, isn’t it?
That’s how it goes, isn’t it?
That’s how it goes, isn’t it?

That’s how it goes in these games

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from War Against War, released February 10, 2018

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An “adventurer in electronic sounds-poetry” whose music is “mind-bending, at times blissfully bizarre.”

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