mine is military sci-fi in general and the conrad stargard series by Leo frankowski
Amazon.... I know they're evil and I avoid them as much as I can, but I have a full-time job and a house full of teenagers. Sometimes speed and convenience trump ideology. I'm sorry I am full of fail.
Even in my lib days I could only do science or culture victories. The micro-mamagement of 3 gazillion different units once you are deep in a domination playthrough bored me to tears.
Science and culture victorious are pretty fun imo, Domination never really interested me but I always had a guilty pleasure of taking over natural wonders from other civs in my science games. Religious victory games are unfun
In Civ 2 I love letting barbarians take over one of my cities and then I just let them do their thing on the reservation.
play workers & resources: soviet republic for the resource extraction itch but also based and good.
Sometimes you just wanna play through a lavishly budgeted shooting gallery, I get it
I haven’t played a COD since the original Black Ops, but I didn’t realize just how fucking bad they were until I was radicalized.
Filthy Frank is a weird one for me because I think it was intended to be an anti-role model thing. Like don't be like this but that message went over a lot of teens heads. Looks like Joji broke away from that crowd at least.
I also want to say most of the gta games. They seem to try to have an anti-capitalist message hidden in there but the way they are developed makes it hard for me to support rockstar in any fashion.
Porn also but I got away from it using drawings and writings artists put online for free. If I had money I'd commission a lot of art like fetish related things since I don't like mainstream shit.
Also loved Joji's reaction in the background of this interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGJqzEy9_60
Meat. I go with a flexitarian approach where I try to avoid it but it's not a strict rule, and when I do indulge I tend to appreciate it a lot more than I used to and it feels like a delicacy.
i can't escape it since it's literally my job so i get tons of it free. but really not into it anymore and would probalbly be a flexitarian/veg if i lived alone simply because it's simpler
I'm still a filthy omni, but now I sometimes think "do I really need to use animal products for this meal?" and also try some vegetarian/vegan dishes.
Enjoying stories from our horrific settler history is probably my guiltiest. I reread the Little House books a couple years ago, and it's BAD. Real bad. Very dehumanizing stuff about Native Americans, and it completely ignores why all that "free land" was free for settlement. I still do have a weird affection for them though--I reread them over and over as a kid and just found them completely enthralling as a picture of another life so different from my own, and the sense of adventure in striking out somewhere new. But the ugly truth is that all that new, empty, unsettled lands had been the homes of others who were forced out, massacred, and herded into camps for our profit, and you really can't divorce that context from the books. Then there's The Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day-Lewis, which is basically The Disappearing Indian Trope: The Movie. I'm trash, I love that movie. My brain is colonized by settler-colonialism. I am an absolute sucker for that frontier shit.
Spy movies focusing on the CIA. Military Sci-Fi. Batman. Shit like that.
Games with police in them. Like Resident Evil or Parasite Eve (I’m so sorry Aya)
I just think of the police in those games being good as part of their fictional nature
You actually do kill a black guy in RE2 (admittedly he was bitten already and it was basically a mercy kill he asks for)
I'm sorry but if you don't feel at least a little bit sad in RE2 when you have to wade past the corpses and zombified remains of Leon's future coworkers with a big dollar store banner saying "Welcome Leon!" over his desk then maybe you have no heart.
I mean, if you can go from basic training to taking on an abomination beyond the realms of reasonable science in the course of one night then you are capable of anything.
Of course that goes double for Claire - she was just a college student looking for her brother (who at least taught her to shoot I think).
SWAT 4 is great. It is kind of strange how the police sniper is allowed to kill people without penalizing your score though.
I liked the Ender's Game series until I found out about Orson Scott Card's weird politics and noticed how they permeated a lot of his work
I don't really think that there's any reason you can't like cars and be a socialist. I like cars, working on them, getting old shitboxes running again, but I don't think that it should be basically necessary to have one to participate in society. Most people should be able to get around via public transit, and I believe that most people would if given the chance because of just how much cheaper it is than personally owning, fueling, maintaining, and insuring a car. But people who want cars because they're cool and fun should be able to have them like any other enthusiast or hobby machine, like a ham radio. And besides, the emissions from car enthusiasts in a socialist society with mass public transit would be negligible.
Playing Imperium in WH40K, albeit with good old proletarian chad Guardsmen instead of the pompous armored space fridges.
but there's nothing more fun than talking about playing an all-female chapter of adeptus astartes cuz lmao what a rage some people work themselves into. CANON!! noT CANON! :blob-on-fire:
Old Jontron videos
The guy has absolute garbage views, but his older videos are just so good
Good thing I don't have to separate art from artist with the new ones, since he was courteous enough to ensure that they just ain't fun anymore.
It really is hard. Like, I sometimes wax nostalgic about some of those old classics. Thankfully since he's got a set I stopped watching, his quality has ironically dropped in contrast to the budget he's gotten.
Liking and disliking shit based on politics is lame af, most people are going to disagree with you in life and you gotta take that in stride
That said, I still love South Park even tho it's takes are bad a lot of the time. Funny when it was making Bezos the villain and quoting Marx last season tho lol
Liking and disliking shit based on politics is lame af
That said, I still love South Park
Meaning if I was gonna dislike something based on politics it'd probably be SP, but I really dig it
I guess I meant it's my favorite right wing cultural product that still is a thing
For me at least it isn't that I'm "policing" what I watch, more that if I see something in it that leaves a bad taste in my mouth it makes it harder to enjoy. Classic Jontron is good enough that I don't care that there's a little voice in my head telling me that he's an asshole, but modern Jontron is lame enough that it can't drown out that voice and I have to switch it off.
The very nature of heroic storytelling in some way is fascistic (as fascism is basically what happens if all of society decides to run on the rules of like- Z grade fantasy novel level narratives). That aint gonna make me stop loving Conan or Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser
