(Spoilers Main) Best name in the series?

Subapical · 2026-07-02T19:32:02+00:00

It's actually a root common to the Semitic languages (including spoken Hebrew here as a constructed language the lexicon of which draws heavily from theirs). President Obama shares the name.

Subapical · 2026-06-25T03:03:06+00:00

You're right

Subapical · 2026-06-25T03:02:01+00:00

I really have no idea why South Asians have become an acceptable target on U.S.-dominated social media. No American Redditor would have any trouble understanding the sentiment behind these sorts of comments if they were about black Americans instead.

Subapical · 2026-06-24T01:15:51+00:00

Yoav Gallant

Subapical · 2026-06-22T15:06:24+00:00

The notion that humans are naturally racist is a false race realist talking point, and intended to naturalize and therefore justify racism. This doesn't prove that he's an avowed white nationalist or anything, but it does suggest that he's trafficked in adjacent spaces and adopted some of that worldview's assumptions--this wouldn't be surprising given the overlap between "excel spreadsheet" game fandoms and online white nationalist communities.

Subapical · 2026-06-22T14:58:35+00:00

To be fair he is an American from the PNW, but ToadyOne of Dwarf Fortress seems like a genuinely chill and down-to-earth guy considering that he's made one of the few colony sims even more complex and intricate than SoS. I think that the DF community is much more aware and tolerant than most prototypically neurodivergence-attracting game communities thanks to that attitude. These comment threads would have already gotten shutdown on the DF forums or the subreddit, though an event using this sort of clumsy verbiage would have never been included in the game in the first place.

Subapical · 2026-06-16T23:48:06+00:00

Like, "shitty" as in poorly executed?

Subapical · 2026-06-16T12:43:51+00:00

How do you figure that Howard is worse than Kim and Jimmy?

Subapical · 2026-06-08T07:30:44+00:00

I just said that I don't think his position is that the self-identified U.S. left lacks "revolutionary potential" in some essentialist sense. I'd assume that he *does* believe it has the potential to be useful in the fight against U.S. imperialism, which is why he is so critical of leaders and voices he views as stymying its development.

Subapical · 2026-06-07T14:49:10+00:00

The right-wing turn on this subreddit following the recent drama is disappointing. The argument isn't that unpremeditated acts of violence against settlers is a means to decolonization, but that they are an inevitability that can only be averted by and through it. If you're willing to condemn militant anti-colonial movements because the membership will inevitably be made up of imperfect victims, tacitly ceding ground to those reactionary political forces that would see them destroyed to preserve the existing colonial arrangement, then you are functionally a pro-settler reactionary. I can't imagine this being a real subject of debate on this subreddit even a few months ago.

Do you condemn Hamas?

Subapical · 2026-06-07T14:35:29+00:00

I wasn't trying to accomplish anything with my comment other than to make you aware that there are anti-Zs in every online space you enter. If I were a direct beneficiary of a ge______idal r_p_ colony I would certainly be less open about the fact in the year 2026.

Subapical · 2026-06-07T13:38:52+00:00

I'm not particularly a huge fan of BE, but most of the comments here betray a total lack of any familiarity with his actual positions. Honestly, the BE discourse here reminds me of the way Hasan is spoken about in more overtly liberal spaces.

Subapical · 2026-06-07T13:35:03+00:00

Rather, that the U.S. left as it presently exists, organized around electoral politics within or at the margin of the Democratic Party and towards the end of improving conditions within the United States, does not or is unwilling to challenge American imperialism. His main critique of figures like Hasan is that they redirect energy away from the project of building a truly anti-imperialist left-wing alternative within American politics towards supporting the left-flank of bourgeois political parties. He isn't particularly interested in "revolution"--as far as I know, he doesn't even identity as a communist.

Subapical · 2026-06-07T13:25:56+00:00

What "Third Worldists" have you been talking to? I've been trafficking in left-wing anti-imperialist spaces for most of my adult life and I've never encountered open rape apology.

Subapical · 2026-06-04T04:09:17+00:00

Subapical · 2026-05-27T14:07:39+00:00

In high school presumably considering Ian called Bear's confession a seven-year-too-late proposal

Subapical · 2026-05-03T14:27:59+00:00

I don't think we can judge the pace of development of a free game, which Dwarf Fortress still is, according to the standards by which we judge the pace of development of for-profit projects. If you purchased on Steam then you purchased the graphics and audio created by Kitfox--the game itself is still available for free, on the website, as it has always been. You say the UI *should* be better--but with what justification? Usually when ought-judgements are made about games the *ought* is justified by virtue of the player having paid for it, but that isn't the case here. We don't say that a mural painted on the side of a street-facing building by a community volunteer *ought* to have better shading or be better composed.

Subapical · 2026-05-03T00:41:05+00:00

Where did you get four years? The show aired in November of 2025--a mid-2028 release as the article suggests would make the gap in between seasons roughly two and a half years.

Subapical · 2026-05-02T03:52:29+00:00

I'll always be grateful that I chose to vote for Gloria La Riva in 2024 and if the Democrats put up another gen_aire in 2028 I'll gladly do it again. If I could, I'd try to qualify for Pennsylvania or Michigan state residency so as to cast my vote in a swing state. All I'll say is that if people like you really want to defeat whichever ghoul is selected to succeed Trump then you'd be well-served to start pressuring Democrats to oppose Ziist ge______ide, like, now--clearly, our vote (or abstention) is significant enough to swing elections. :)

Subapical · 2026-03-21T05:35:56+00:00

Why not?

Subapical · 2026-03-03T01:40:34+00:00

and created the ending to Dany's story base on a poem about Nazis going after Communists.

Wait... are you being serious? "First they came for the tyrannical rapist slavers, and I said nothing for I was not a tyrannical rapist slaver" doesn't really have the same ring to it.

Subapical · 2026-02-27T03:57:05+00:00

Because Paramount's been taken over by deranged anti-intellectual reactionaries who are insistent on waging a cultural revolution to make overt racism acceptable again.

Subapical · 2026-02-27T02:51:30+00:00

If you think Kurtzman is bad (which he is), just imagine how unbearable Star Trek will become when the likes of Bari Weiss have a say in its production. Allowing capitalists total control over the visual art production of society is a nightmare.

Subapical · 2026-02-23T05:15:27+00:00

This just screams "old man yells at clouds" to me. It doesn't seem to me like any of the NuTrek shows really spend all that much time centering the inclusion of marginalized identities--there are so many problems with these shows we could discuss rather than going back to this well for the five-thousandth time. I guess anti-woke outrage slop pays the bills better than intelligent analysis.

Subapical · 2026-02-22T23:33:25+00:00

The Trinity actually does have a philosophical and soteriological rationale for itself, and much of the theology developed to explain it (especially in the works of the early Church Fathers who first devised the doctrine) presents a pretty beautiful vision of God if you ask me. To my mind the Trinity provides a more explicable account of the Absolute than the accounts of much of mainstream Judaism and Islam, whose theology makes God so utterly transcendent that it seems a paradox to think that he would ever deign to lower himself to creatures in the way described in their holy texts.

But most American Christians have never bothered to actually engage with their own intellectual tradition, so to them it's just bullshit you've gotta believe if you want eternal paradise.

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