You left out the protocol of the elders of zion and the backlash it caused against Jews. It’s fairly important as a catalyst for some of the 20th century shit.

These are all reasonable. Add people that let others in, in potentially dangerous situations.

Lots of them believe it is written on our hearts and uncontacted tribes have rejected Jesus.

(I’m so sorry for writing so much. Skip to the last paragraph if you have to. There’s a tension in me because I fall on both sides a bit.)

It’s an indicator of developer focus and intent. Sometimes.

If people’s introduction to trans characters wasn’t “hi, I’m trans” then maybe they wouldn’t have these stereotypes, but we are where we are. Pretending that it’s just extra options is ignoring that the people that push this sort of thing also seem to think we also want to read their shitty writing and shitty characters.

Their dumblelore/voldemort slash fiction bullshit was trash 15 years ago and they haven’t improved because their focus is social issues, not good writing. That’s the real issue - paper thin characters that are just vehicles for social commentary. Subversion isn’t annoying your audience from the start, it’s developing deep characters with all the flaws of humanity that also happen to have atypical identities.

My favorite book series are The Culture novels and Discworld. They both have trans characters that aren’t there just to push narrative. They were well written characters that fit the world and also trans. In the culture it’s not even remarkable - they’ve solved everything biological so it’s just kind of there. Discworld is more by-the-horns, but he still manages to be sneaky with the subversion and it works every fucking time.

On the flip side, Hugo award winner A Deepness in the Sky has a character that uses gender neutral pronouns which is whatever. Not a big deal, but it was the first time I saw it in a book. What was the book? Torture/rape fantasy set in space. It’s one of two books I couldn’t finish. The other is Atlas Shrugged. Coming from someone that’s read a lot of more classic science fiction and considered a Hugo a seal of approval, that was a very harsh realization.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with extra options or making ugly characters (though I don’t get that - there’s a sweet spot between fan service and trash can) but I don’t consider them a useful feature if the game is shit. If they focus on the game and add ‘woke’ shit to a good game with well written characters it’ll go down like honey. If the devs see the game as a vehicle to disseminate their social ideas, they’re in love with themselves and not the game and people will see that. It can, and has, been done well.

Nah. We’ll just continue to dry wash our hands and apologize while doing nothing useful.

Sorry ‘bout stealin’ your shit. Want it back? Fuck you. Have some empty words.

That’s 100% the right time lol. They get ballot access and funding from these elections.

That’s already the goal of state chairs for third parties.

We’re paying like 15k/yr per student. More in lots of places. We’re paying shitloads to educate other people’s children.

That’s pretty badass.

It’s been a while since I’ve rooted. I’ll look into it. Thanks for the direction.

I like being able to use my banking app. I do miss having proper control, though.

Resurrect UT4 and I will deliver you 1 more user.

I feel like a torturer wants to spread the pain over time, so he’s there using a Bosch mini chainsaw, slowly carving flesh away.

Prosecutors really like those add-on laws.

Yeah, np.

No, they don’t have to be tight ever. They’re locked in by geometry and wire.

Depends on a lot of things. Most orgs will use published data for what they’re choosing to use. More or less standard hardware is less likely to be sent to MR&D for testing

Tbf, those people aren’t generally responsible for the failures of the people that both install things or verify installed things.

And the bolts in that scenario don’t actually need to be tight.

Epic Games until they continue developing UT4. Motherfuckers.

I was talking about benefits to vote for them. Those were non-election uses of voting third party.

That’s not true. Voting third party helps get them funding and ballot access. If your vote for president won’t change anything, then vote for the most utility.