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I actually didn't realize there was a Descent 3 for some reason, I've only played 1 & 2. They're the sort of game I can just jump in for 20 minutes and have fun but all the back tracking through the levels makes me feel sick playing any longer.

no, us real wokies know they should have made maximus ace

Also, bi people wont judge me for being bi (common problem even today).

my experience with a bi ex tells me this is not the case

There is an often reposted study that shows people who are worse at video games are more likely to harass women. Though these are some issues with the study and it's scope, this more or less matches my experience. However, this is usually transformed via a game of telephone into suggesting higher skilled players are less misogynistic.

I have played at the top level of multiple games over different genres and it is incredibly misogynistic up there. The key difference is most of the nerds up there are less likely express it so obviously and publicly. In a lot of cases this is purely about self-preservation, teams in competitive games will be collectively penalized so there is a degree of self-policing (nobody wants to have their team disqualified with all that money on the line) and in PvE games there is usually a great deal of time (and lets be real, often money) invested in an account people don't want to lose.

It's gotten a lot better since the "tits or gtfo" and "there are no women on the internet" days, but the last time I was in these circles was only during COVID and it was still wildly misogynistic behind closed doors.

I'd take SNW over Lower Decks tbh, but meh either way

I gotta be real, the only Star Trek news that would get a reaction out of me these days is a Star Trek: Resurgence sequel

ewww he praises moving the briefing room scenes to bridge, i hate that

so many of these conversations and arguments should not be done in front of the crew

Brinksmanship stuff would still be maniacal and incredibly stupid, but it'd actually portray the uniquely twisted logic of capitalism. This is just nonsense.

Kinda vague on whether or not Moldaver was a communist.

Moldaver specifically says she is not a communist. You can argue that she is lying, but it's far more likely to be yet another entry in the grand liberal tradition that thinks the deepest tragedy of McCarthyism is that liberals were wrongly called communists.

it definitely portrays the corporate monopolists well.

No it doesn't, it's one of the stupidest depictions of it I've ever seen. A bunch of upper management types decide to start the apocalpyse because in a few centuries they'll... have a monopoly? Except this is a group of every major corporation cooperating for it, they already do. All these guys care about is line goes up and are notoriously short sighted, this is like the definition of line goes down and (nonsensical) long term planning.

If these guys caused nuclear armageddon they'd have done so believing that it wouldn't actually happen or would be limited, and have a clear plan to actually profit from their actions. They'd do brinksmanship stuff to scare the public into buying more vault spots and the government into funding them more, risking everyone's lives for a few dollars more under the assumption they'd win the dice roll.

I take back what I said about the series being “kinda liberal.”

I don't know why, it definitely seems like it is.

I can't remember the last time I got a spam email honestly. I changed my address like 5+ years ago and it just stopped and never resumed. It's not the email provider filtering them either, the only thing it catches are legitimate but automated messages.

I enjoyed it. Narratively I'm not particularly invested nor am I a Fallout fan, but the show has a lot of interesting things in sets/costuming/locations/etc and I like the cast. Walton Goggins is basically a cheat code for having at least something captivating in your show.

Given this is Hexbear I should though I should mention that if you're looking at it because you've heard it's got an anti-capitalist message, it'll be a disappointment. It's there but it's just so fucking stupid.

I'd skip this one for sure if I were you. It is used for random shock value and it's so frequent that, even if you could predict it all, you'd be looking away from the screen so often you may as well turn it off and pretend it's an audio drama.

Turns out that they just needed someone who was capable of following instructions and who was able to communicate things using specific language and they managed to find their guy on the inside.

This is any office job where you have to communicate with different teams honestly, not just IT. Getting things done is just building a list of competent people you can call to bypass all the various filters. One of the most common conversations at work is just "who was your guy at X who got Y done?".

It's extremely funny when you get blowhards who think the way to get shit done is to talk to the boss though. The small business tyrant clients we have just jump to the "I'll just call the boss then" the moment there is the slightest bit of friction or delay and it always makes me laugh. My boss is actually a pretty standup guy and really good at what he does, but if you're not important enough he will literally wait months to action something and these guys never are.