Examples that come to mind:

  • saying your favorite video game is Disco Elysium
  • saying your favorite TV show is Star Trek DS9

The two rules are that:

  1. It has to be to do with a category that is socially acceptable to talk about with most people in a casual setting. So no politics or philosophy.
  2. Nothing too on the nose, ex, no "I love the music of the Red Army Choir" or something.
  • Rom [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Musk famously named a couple of his spaceships after Culture ships, and if there's anyone the Culture is wonder-who-thats-for for it's him.

    • Galli [comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      Bezos also likes the series and nearly made a tv adaptation of Consider Phlebas that thankfully fell through.

      All the bazingaires are wow cool spaceship wow-cool-robot about the Culture while missing communist themes that couldn't have been more overt without each book just pausing to quote the manifesto in full.