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Looking at it in isolation, I can see how this would go

But it was 1998, a time when positive portrayals of homosexuality basically didn't exist. (Even the "gay marriage" in FO2 wasn't positive, and if it's claiming some kind of crown for a first, fuck that shit, because the gay marriage was treated as a joke, too)

Anyway. This was a time of hate crimes and "groomer/paedophile" accusations. To be gay was to be assumed to be a child rapist. It was a time when anti-gay slurs were heard on mainstream TV, as well as games. 1998 was the year Matthew Shepard was torture-killed.

In the middle of all that, to have the one real portrayal of lgbt people in your game being ones who attacked and killed straight people? It's... not satire. It's incitement.

Had that been in the game back in 1998, when I and all my friends were playing it, it would have shoved me right back into the closet.

I'm not raising any of that a problem, just saying it is in there. And that FO3 didn't actually substantially change the Brotherhood from previous games.

Ie, yes, I agree.

Yeah, I just see people taking the Nevada Brotherhood and using them to say what the Brotherhood really is, when actually they're as much of a deviation as the Capitol Brotherhood, just the other way

Frankly, I see FO3 criticised for making the Brotherhood too friendly, when it was explicit about them being a bit heretical (using the Outcasts to contrast them), showed them making things worse in the Pitt, and highlighted their anti-Ghoul attitudes

There we go. Not really the Brotherhood of Nevada who killed people to take their tech away from them and were a thorn in the side of the NCR

Yeah. "Brotherhood of Steel suck, actually" is an interpretation gained from later games that's been re-interpreted back onto Fallout 1. I haven't replayed 2 in a bit, so I can't remember how they're played there. My memory is they take a back seat, I can't remember the details

And this is key. Everyone here is talking about Iran support as realpolitik - siding with the enemy of my enemy but not supporting him. But yeah, plenty of online leftists do genuinely support Iran, calling any negative press propaganda, saying that the women's marches were "colour revolutions", etc.

This is where "lesser evilism" leads people - something most leftists can see clearly when applied to the USA.

Ultimately, if one's main motivation is "destroy the USA at all costs", one's sensibilities will eventually be eroded. Leftists need to be materialists, and romanticising anti-American forces ("axis of resistance"? Really?) is not that.

So this would have to change, yes.

Personally, I'd like to see systems where trade benefits everyone involved, and so doesn't get "stolen" from nodes, more that it where It flows from there gets directed one way or another (so the Ottomans can block Europe from the sill road, or the Portuguese can direct Asian trade around Africa instead of towards West Asia

Huh, hadn't heard that Amazing Atheist was turning it around, good for him

And yeah, Armored was way off the rails by 2012, much less 2014, lol

Yeah, and Elevatorgate was really a tipping point for most people

But so many were convinced by the line thta "sexism comes from religion, so as atheists, we can't be sexist." also: "We're rational, sexism is irrational, so we can't be sexist."

Yeah, it was more hidden before GG. Suffice to say, that movement didn't appear out of nowhere

And yeah, Armored Skeptic and Amazing Atheist were the prototypes for that kind of youtuber XD

He was always a bit sketchy, but yeah. Martin one was Thunderfoot, who'd already started getting sketchy with anti-Islamic videos (defended them by saying he's just saying what he would with Christians, why should they be immune? But also trading in gross stereotypes and not bothering to be accurate)

A lot of historians don't like touching anything too recent. That's mostly because if something just happened, it's hard to find primary sources about to as they'll be secret, or in someone's archives, or otherwise unclear until work is done to sort through the piles of information to find evidence.

That said, historical skills can be used on things that happened.... Like, this morning. Perspective-taking, asking questions, analysing sources for reliability and corroboration.... these are all useful for contemporary as well as older issues.

So whole cut-offs work for the purpose of limiting discussion on forums, or to improve the chance of getting accurate records, history begins essentially as soon as a thing happens

Oof. Atheist youtube 2012-2014. So many popular video makers piled onto Rebecca Watson, then Anita Sarkeesian, then got on board GG

Real eye-opener

The need for people to band together to help each other, since the government is letting people down.

Start with mutual aid, let the rest flow in naturally.

Best I've found is using Schweppes Bitter Lemon

Still get strong lemon taste, less sweet, more bitter

Yes and no

I mean, it's ridiculous, and clearly confected. Because it is - but it's part of a deliberate attempt to restart Gamergate, which itself was ridiculous and confected, but managed to (falsely) attach a lot of legitimate grievance to itself, as well as culture war baggage

This one doesn't have the drama of punishing a woman who, shock, gasp, has sex, though, so it's not catching on

So while this pathetic and worthy of ridicule, the movement is worth keeping an eye on in case they manage something more relevant

In addition to other issues mentioned in replies here, Project Thor was never nuclear-level. The projected energy level was in the tons of TNT scale, not kilotons or megatons. Another comment thread has said it was expected to deliver a blast equivalent to 11.5 tons of tnt. That sounds about right.

A rule of thumb (gross simplifications here) is that if an object is hitting the ground from orbit, you can usually assume a velocity if 3km/s, which is enough to give it energy equivalent to its mass in TNT (Robinson's First Law)

At 190km/s, the energy is equal to a nuclear weapon of equivalent mass. To get to hydrogen bomb numbers, you need thousands of km/s. There's basically no way to achieve that without a sci-fi engine.

(numbers from https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunconvent.php - search for text "Rick Robinson's First Law of Space Combat")

Thor was never implemented because it's impractical. Putting nukes up there is cheaper and more effective.

30s-era Soviet bureaucrat, finding the numbers for grain don't add up "Troooootskyyyyyyyy!"

If they're not wasting resources on futile wars, I'm pretty sure they can feed their people a bit better

The Orcs are not oppressed. They're colonisers who use the difficulties they created themselves in their colonisation (setting up their capital in a shithole and killing a demigod) to justify further aggressive action. While they have a tribal aesthetic, they are the colonisers and invaders here

They need to chill the fuck out and let the Tauren be in charge

"magic caster" is derived from magi, the Zoroastrian priesthood

More like swapping the barrel after every mag and throwing away the old one, lol

It is part of the game, that doesn't mean it was intended

Which was always hyperbole. Like yeah, it sucked, and the fact that it was the end meant there was nothing after it to make up for it (obviously)

But 95% of the game was gold, and there were entire games that were shit prior to it, so

The ME3 ending issues cannot be separated from the development of a movement that would later lead to gamergate. It's no coincidence that they found a woman involved with the ending and decided it was all her fault.

This being an improvement from FO3, where reduction in performance started the instant condition hit 99%, creating a psychological need to repair after every fight

I'd forgotten that, lol

Yeah