I haven't seen Andor so I can't comment, but I'll take the plunge on your advice.
I think corporate "progressivism" is certainly one of the culprits, but sometimes it's the creatives themselves who ruin things. Some creatives have even intentionally uprooted an IP like The Witcher's show, and Rings of Power. Sometimes progressive ideals are merely a shield against criticism, other times it's a creators' own ideals that made them ruin things, and sometimes it's just rainbow capitalism. It's not a simple issue to talk about really.
Oh you have definitely read it. I come from a family of union men, and am myself a union executive. Reading that stuff felt surreal lol.
the games themselves were made to sell their niche demographic. At the time that was young white boys
In the beginning, before Nintendo started hammering the idea that video games were for kids, games were often targetted for an older audience. This is particularly true of home computer gaming, the bread and butter for the likes of Sierra and LucasArts. Even after the Nintendo there was still a lot of mature and even adult content being made, as well as content in genres less popular to children such as simulators.
From my own experince: Sierra's Roberta Williams was the designer of the whole King's Quest series (I believe?), and I remember a lot of discussion about them (and especially hints lol) on my BBS by men and women alike, nearly all working adults. I can't speak for the entire demographic of King's Quest players but I mean people logging into BBS's probably were the main demographic lol.
Your first source is a costume-designer with a very obvious agenda talking about European history. She sources little of her statements, some of them with actual pieces of fiction (including anachronistic art).
Your second source basically amounts to "contemporary writers didn't say there weren't Africans in Europe *wink*". It's written like your typical ancient aliens stuff.
The third describes more the spread of influence than the actual populace, and is written by Runoko Rashidi, an afrocentrist "historian" who liked to claim historical figures were black in spite of when evidence to the contrary existed. These folks are colloquially known as "hoteps" in some circles.
Obviously given the nature of humans, cultures, and empires, it is likely some amount of black Africans ended up in Europe. That said, given historical records as understood by actual historians, we have reason to believe there were not many of them. Why does it even matter though? What would black Africans being in Europe even prove?
like the Arcane lesbian relationship being erased in the Chinese release, or game companies logos not having rainbows only in middle eastern countries
There was a mod for one of the Spiderman games (that got removed from Nexus Mods lol) because it activated the flags from the Saudi release of the game that override the pride flags in other releases, which got people discussing how serious these companies are about progressive ideals if they're only selectively included. Of course it feels like it's only tangentially attached to the content: it is, by design, and you can easily prove it.
That's what people mean when they say it's forced.
You want to write a gay character? Do it, but stop half-assing it because it won't sell in China. Do it right or fuck off.
Great comment, you've nailed it.
I think there’s a reason Star Wars gets more shit for being woke than Spiderverse
Funny enough even within the Star Wars universe there are good and bad things. Mandalorian and Rogue One? Pretty great. Episode 7+ and Acolyte? Pretty shit. You'll notice though that the more forced the progressivism is in a given piece of content, the more it sucks. In other words: bad writing doesn't just fuck the story up, it bakes in messaging that doesn't even make sense contextually.
Anyone who has ever read the Sword of Truth series and encountered the author's obsession with hating socialism has seen what happens when right-wing folk do it: it ruins the experience. Why would we excuse it from progressives?
It shows up with both a modern meaning but also the meaning of "armed, trained, and disciplined" in the writings of contemporary politicians at both the federal and state levels. Example: Federalist #27 has Alexander Hamilton using it more in the modern sense while he quotes an argument from someone else using it in the antiquated one.
Ultimately it won't matter either way because that part of the amendment is not even required for the rest of it to survive. If you were to push this issue, you may even discover unintended consequences you probably do not actually want, like the formation of more militia groups.
If you actually want to implement gun control measures you need to throw gun owners a bone. Rebuild the trust, otherwise they will fight even the tiniest measure with the maximum effort, to the extent that a YouTuber nearly displaced an incumbent Texan politician over it.
Well in the context of the time "well regulated" meant something completely different. You have to be careful not to make the same mistake.
When I come in sore and cold from shoveling the latest buttload of snow and she tells the kids to go cuddle daddy and warm me up? Yeah that makes me feel pretty good.
This is what happens when you only read part of the 1st Amendment.
OP is about disparaging a passionate community that likes the experience they've gathered around and doesn't want it to change. Asking these people to change without a good reason is stupid. Claiming it isn't stupid makes it even worse.
As evidenced by this comment
Did you at least give me a tip of the fedora while hitting me with that sick Reddit burn?
How to tell someone uses Hacker News without asking:
It's not obvious at all bro. I see unironic shit like that posted on here all the time. I live and breathe IT so I am all too aware some IT folks are fucking assholes about this.
That said I really do think the bar needs to be raised a bit. People struggling to setup meetings in Outlook in 2024 is not ok.
Do you pay people to change your car's oil? Do you call in an HVAC tech when your air conditioner's capacitor dies? Do you bring your computer into a shop to have the storage upgraded?
These are all fairly easy things to do. I make good money replacing and upgrading storage in laptops, desktops, and other devices like Steam Decks, a few hundred a month from that alone. It's nearly trivial in difficulty, like replacing the fill valve or the chain that connects it to the handle, but people pay and I'm not about to tell them not to.
We exclusively use Windows on our user's devices (over 10k devices!) and don't have to support anything else. We end up with problems like those all the time.
- occasionally all installations become blocked no matter what means or which user, requiring reimaging to resolve.
- DisplayPort connections mysteriously failing and requiring reboots of the device and sometimes also the dock or monitor. Sometimes we even have to swap the cable out, even though the cable will continue to work in another setup just fine.
- using a different brand of dock than the ones we have at our hotelling stations and disconnecting for any length of time causes wifi to fail until reboot
- wifi at the office mysteriously stops working as you move around the building, requiring restart
None of our Linux test devices experience any of this.
If bathrooms were properly designed instead of having half walls that don't even meet, I doubt people would care nearly as much.
I've seen it a lot (I do PC builds/repairs as a side gig). I just assume it will cause me grief from the start and keep both USB2 and USB3 sticks handy.
To be fair I've had the issue with Unraid too, but only on one brand's B450 motherboards in my testing. I didn't have a whole bunch to try of course but MSI and Asus was fine, Gigabyte not. X570 didn't have this problem in my experience.
Given the nature of their matchmaking approach, this is probably the best option.
Would be easier if we could choose our lobbies out of a list...