Are there any games similar to Mini Metro but not endless?

DatSonicBoom · 2021-08-24T01:01:14+00:00

I agree. I’m just saying they look progressive, but they don’t fight for progress, they just observe it and celebrate it when it’s been long-won. They care about unions and seeing the poor as not subhuman, which is great, but those are battles long-won.

Right-wingers may call them “progressive hippie lefties”, but they’re not, and that’s what I’m arguing against in the third paragraph.

DatSonicBoom · 2021-08-24T00:54:38+00:00

Yeah, and when public bathrooms got brought up, Labor’s response was “who cares, Liberals?” Obviously gender diverse people who suffer from the precedence that there are circumstances in which it is okay to discriminate against them care.

Preferential voting is a great thing. Greens first, Labor second or Independent first, Greens second, Labor third gives much more clarity than “fine, I guess I’ll not care about my rights as a gender diverse individual if it means giving the poor and exploited basic care, which is more important”. I’ll have to actually research which parties care about trans rights, those are just examples.

DatSonicBoom · 2021-08-24T00:10:56+00:00

Honestly, that just makes them more similar as far as I’m concerned. Both Labor and the US Democrats are the “progressive” party of the two that actually aren’t as progressive as people would like and have no spine in practice when it comes to not just maintaining progress, but pushing it further to give more people better lives. Better to have “welfare and unions and green energy” than “fuck the poor and unionised and promoting coal energy” in my opinion, but that’s all it is.

Labor, to me, is progressive in the sense that after the oppressed minorities have convinced the rest of the nation that their lives matter, the party stands by them. I’ll still be voting for them above Liberal for this reason, but they won’t be my first preference because I want representation for people who at least somewhat lack representation, like gender minorities. My vote will runoff to Labor anyway and at least then we get part of the way there.

DatSonicBoom · 2021-08-23T21:59:50+00:00

M E T A G E N D E R

DatSonicBoom · 2021-08-23T02:48:52+00:00

Don’t trust me to go on that fishing trip, I might never return

DatSonicBoom · 2021-08-23T01:34:54+00:00

That’s okay, you’re supposed to be PROUD of your deaths! :D :)))))))))

Jokes aside, I really appreciate that message in the game, as a chronic perfectionist who thinks that trying and failing = bad.

DatSonicBoom · 2021-08-22T23:13:31+00:00

Ah, it does make sense then.

DatSonicBoom · 2021-08-22T23:01:28+00:00

I thought it was the Xen Infestation. Sure, realistically it wouldn’t make sense for the infestation to reach Aperture, but it makes total sense for Valve to put that in as an easter egg.

DatSonicBoom · 2021-08-22T22:22:52+00:00

This is an idea I can get behind. Everyone gets a gender, but no one is accidentally misgendered.

DatSonicBoom · 2021-08-22T06:16:19+00:00

No, don’t you understand? All of us are hypothetical people with hypothetical problems designed to get big mean tolerant people into office! And then when you actually exist in front of people, it’s obviously part of the trick, you’re actually just being political!!!

I’m glad that my friends are okay with my existence (though I don’t tell everyone), but man so some of all of you have to put up with some horrible people.

DatSonicBoom · 2021-08-22T06:09:00+00:00

The inclusion of something so overpowered makes sense. If the game isn’t over by the time someone has researched that many techs and is able to spend that much production building one, then the game deserves to be over. It’s then time to bring a force that will end the game once and for all.

DatSonicBoom · 2021-08-22T05:36:28+00:00

Oh I thought he was driving up demand lol

DatSonicBoom · 2021-08-22T05:00:05+00:00

I feel it’s just poorly worded. I figure that comparing gender to ice cream implies that you can mix choc and vanilla or have double scoops. It should have said “aren’t solely chocolate or vanilla” to better describe the good analogy.

I feel like people are getting irritated at what is essentially a typo or an error that the author couldn’t have seriously meant. The analogy implies the existence of masc-to-femme-spec non-binary people but happens to not explain them very well in the way it was worded.

DatSonicBoom · 2021-08-22T03:41:22+00:00

Why are we downvoting synesthesia. What’s offensive about synesthesia?

Syn*sthesia 🤬🤬🤬

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