I mehhed out on Outer Wilds because of Brittle Hollow and Hourglass Twins. Great game certainly, magnificent atmosphere, clever-in-a-good-way plot and premise, just not quite for me. Watching my daughter play through it was more fun than playing it myself.

I thought about playing the good and bad endings of Undertale, but it started to feel like work so did not. Plus I estimated that the Sans fight would’ve made be break something.

Well no, not perfectly. America is a large place, and some states are less fascistic, some more. The constitution is markedly anti-fascistic.

The things they (some of them/the activists) are demanding and which I feel are overcorrecting (i.e. go past just equal rights) include demands by legislation to force the pronoun issue; demands for overriding by default the will of parents when deciding healthcare (psychological and physical) of their children; demands of bathroom/dressing room usage and demands of being allowed to participate in sports in the series they identify as instead of in the series their body is. These are not black and white issues and I’m not claiming that they are.

Thing is, demanding merely equal rights for trans people is not quite enough, because some of the things they need/want are things that nobody else needs. So I think it’s not quite honest to say that they just want equal rights. In this way LGB rights are way simpler, because as far as I can tell they just wanted the exact same things as straight people already had.

But I want to reiterate that where trans people et al lack equal rights their fight is 100% legit, without any question.

That’s a great non-popular opinion! Personally, I thought that episode was the only one worth watching, especially after playing the actual game. The other episodes had great acting and direction, but they were mostly just a rehash of what I’ve seen before and that’s boring.

Yeah, I’m aware of that dog whistle and will try to avoid it. But a fact is that LGB rights have mostly been cemented in all the non-regressive parts of the world, and the rest of the letters (well, T at least) are still fighting. Some parts of that fight is legit (like I said elsewhere, demanding equal treatment is 100% fine), but some of it overcorrects.

But this thread was asking for non-popular opinions, so I guess I scored here. Here’s another: I don’t think being called transphobic is a much of an insult. Trans is weird and it’s normal to feel weird about it. Translating that feeling into denying their rights is deeply wrong, nevertheless. I believe trans activists should work on this angle more (perhaps they do already? I don’t follow them enough to know for sure), I believe that would win them support more easily from a wider audience, when compared to a strategy that demands acceptance on top of mere tolerance.

Did you ask me to elaborate? I can elaborate.

It’s run by a fascist party, Hamas, who was voted into power by the people. It suppresses political dissent, restricts basic human freedoms, enforces conservative religious norms, rejects modernism, and thrives on military conflict. I’m going mostly by Umberto Eco’s definition of fascism, perhaps yours is different.

edit seems like parent asked me to elaborate, suggested that I’m unable to, then blocked me when I elaborated

All people ask for is to be treated equally to everyone else.

I’m sure you’re aware that this is not at all what I’m talking about. Equal treatment for all is a 100% fine demand and should be complied with immediately.

What have asexuals ever done to you?

It’s incorrect to assume that I have been affected by these people if I’m not happy about some aspects of what some activists are doing. But you are correct that I should’ve probably left A out of that jumble of letters, since they’re probably the least disruptive/demanding of all groups.

Some of these are lemmy-specific perhaps, more mainstream outside of this place:

1. Free markets work better than anything else we have practically tried so far

2. Neo-marxism is a problem

3. LGBTQIA+ activist are overcorrecting, especially for TQIA+

4. Palestine is a fascist state

5. USA and EU have problems, some of them big ones, but they are generally a force for good on this planet

6. Young people use smart devices too much, like older people

7. Internet services in general are fucking up our minds big time, including those that attempt to be benevolent like Lemmy and Mastodon. They all eat attention energy, which is an extremely scarce resource.

8. All drugs should be decriminalized, most of them should be legalized (paraphrasing Bill Hicks, some should be mandatory)

9. Karl Popper didn’t quite mean what antifa thinks he meant

10. Mainstream religions, even if factually and is some parts also ethically full of shit, generally work well in making individuals strive for the best they can

11. Piratism is unethical but can be excused when legally provided services suck

12. Open source is a vastly superior method of developing software in a global sense

TXT first.

Indeed! Thanks for the link!

(Sid Meier’s) Alpha Centauri.

Please don’t go. The drones need you. They look up to you.

For it to work for me, it would have to be pretty much a 1:1 remake with just improved compatibility and possibly assets. Not sure what would need to happen for it to work for people who never played the original.

Yeah, font technology has come a long way since then.

For me, at least 50% of why TA was great was its soundtrack. Jeremy Soule hasn’t topped that one, IMHO, even if the Elder Scrolls series came close.

What’s the difference between “Switch electric car to car free” and “Live car free”? The latter presumes a petrol car?

How would “kill yourself” rate on this chart? Depends on how old you are, I suppose.

Woosh

I litterally frowned at that

Don’t forget racism

sniff

Even in Stallman’s visions open source was not hostile to making money at all, as long as the tenets are followed. Also, you might wanna read economics.

Also God: I made humans in my image