I wouldn't entirely say that, especially when you have multiple foil examples of religious figures who aren't assholes and do challenge Winn quite often (Bareil, Opaka, Sisko to some extent).
She is however playing a somewhat common kind of villain though. The uptight, controlling, power hungry, self-serving, finger wagging sort of virtue-signaling villain who tries to pretend like they're a self-sacrificing hero for the people.
In a way she's practically reprising her role as the bitch-nurse from One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest.
I'm generally not a fan of that either, though in some cases I have seen games manage to pull that off in surprisingly convincing ways, to the point to where I wouldn't have any idea that it was doing that if I didn't have some knowledge about what was going on under the hood.
I'm thinking of maybe holding off until the modding scene catches up a bit, simply because of how spoiled I've been with STALKER mods in general for however many years now.
While I'm sure in her (character's) mind that's true, the more likely truth is that she came up with that as an excuse for her being a miserable cunt, long after a lifetime of actively choosing to be a miserable cunt. She just doesn't want to admit that she's simply a terrible person.
Dukat's character followed a largely similar pattern. Trying to lay every possible thing out there to blame instead of himself for how he managed the station during the occupation. Coming up with rationalization after rationalization for why he does such slimy shit, like constantly trying to use his position of power to seduce and bone Bajoran women. Why he treats his own daughter like shit. Etc etc etc.
It's something that we can see in common with deranged political sorts (especially on the left today), who'll excuse every possible failing they have and mistake they make, claiming it's for the greater good. And lying through their teeth about just about everything for as long as they draw breath.
Also that some of the parents, at some points during the press conferences or whatever seemed odd in their emotional-social demeanor.
Which is to say, they didn't look nearly as broken or distraught as you'd expect most parents to be after losing their kids in such a meaningless act of violence.
Even more-so for anyone in places like the UK, Canada, Australia, etc. There's almost nothing important that a commentator can get away with pointing out because of the bullshit censorship laws that have been plastered to and fro.
I think that's why one of the few youtubers of this sort I'm okay with is Razorfist.
He's not knee deep into it as a primary source of income, as near as I can tell anyway, so he's not dumpster diving for stories or spitting out a regular stream of needless or rehashed commentary.
But I guess he'd probably agree that he's not really a commentator per say anyway. So the point ends up being a little moot.
They're deluded enough that there's not really much to be done. Just let them fester in their own idiocy as the rest of the world passes them by. They whittle down their own numbers for us too, making them less and less of an actual threat.
The main thing though is to also make sure to properly weed anyone of this sort out of any positions of influence. IE, education, politics, law enforcement, business/technology, etc.
They really are. It's kind of insane how much of a window Resetera's become into their total lunacy. Even more-so than reddit because they've created such an insular bubble thanks to their ban happy purging of anyone outside the hive-mind.
Quite the anthropological observation port, in a way, lol.
Mostly just to the active threads. I don't want to go digging around for individual comments right now though, but there's certainly enough of them:
There's a few more threads than that too popping up, since the leftists are just spastic.
ResetEra's had some hilariously dumb takes this past week. Along with a few, legitimately reflective or self-aware comments, which immediately get pounced on by everyone else.
The biggest irony being, that a lot of these threads are on topics such as "what do we do to bring men back to the left" and other questions trying to answer why they lost the election. Hilariously and totally incapable of self-awareness.
One of the most amusing conclusions they've been drawing is that clearly they need to shove MORE propaganda down peoples' throats. (Because clearly, their propaganda couldn't POSSIBLY be pushing people away, right?)
Yeah, that part definitely was.
Although I'll admit, I didn't even realize it was a tranny for a while because I was skipping through that specific dialogue, was very much a "tldr" moment, and the portrait was so small on my screen that I didn't even guess it was anything more than a lesbian thing.
Apparently the Wokeless mod author didn't realize it either when he first made it (he also did start the mod before finishing the prologue, so that could've been a factor).
And on further digging, turns out the writer for the original tabletop campaign/adventure the PC game is based on is a tranny. Beyond the 3-4 glaring examples of cringe diverse characters, nothing in the story seems to reflect that, so I half wonder if Owlcat cleaned up a lot of the mess from the original campaign. I'm curious enough to grab a free copy of the campaign to compare.
Aye, I think I have a pretty good idea of where you're coming from. Even though we may not have come to the same overarching belief systems, I can certainly respect and largely agree with the perspective and reasoning you seem to take in your approach.
Some of it's honestly a little familiar from when I was still more agnostic. IE, trying to maintain a balanced thought process involving both secular and non-secular, sort of in unison. Since ideally, the results should line up if both are accurate and true. Or something along those lines.
Still quite a few genres that the Japanese didn't create first, based on their absence from that list.
Horde coop shooters/hack and slash. An array of strategy game genres. Arena shooters (and all other manner of first person shooters). Probably (combat) flight simulators too. CRPG's. Basically, a lot of genres that originate on the PC.
Obviously they got a good head start on consoles and arcade machines, and stuck with that stuff for quite a long time.
Conversely though, they've been spitting out propaganda about "misinformation" and January 6th stuff almost non-stop since then. So they may really not be that concerned about anyone calling them out since they maintain such control over the official narrative.
Oh I understand and to quite a large degree agree with what you're saying. I've read and agreed with a lot of what Nietzsche wrote as well.
But for myself at least I just can't hold religion totally responsible for human failings. It only plays into my own suppositions and sometimes misplaced anger/blame. And It's something I realized as one of the main things that's held me back for years from trying to pursue what I want out of life.
I'll still hold firmly onto my reasoning and beliefs, which lean very much towards atheism, but I let myself get far too tunnel visioned over my personal baggage with religion. And I realized I'd deluded myself into creating an enemy in my own mind that was nowhere near as much of an issue as I'd led myself to believe. Which is not only irrational, but ends up being very self defeating in a lot of ways.
I won't assume that's in any way shape or form applicable to you or your history, I'm just trying to explain my own reasoning as honestly as I can.
Sorry for the late response. And I hope this comment's clear, I'm drowsy as hell right now, so try and bear with me.
That section of my comment wasn't exactly directed towards what you wrote so much as in response to what I've hard from a handful of other Christians in the past year (Not from anyone on these boards, just for context).
And before I posted my previous comment I did glance through what you wrote and recognized that you weren't really trying to minimize human suffering. Which is why I was being broad in my words.
But I did want to get the point across that with some Christians I've encountered (and with people from other backgrounds/beliefs too) sometimes it comes off that way in the phrasing, or does come from someone with a legitimately dismissive attitude.
And I was trying to honestly... just try to do something to help heal some of the divide. I've been trying to do that for myself in my own personal life, still have some long lasting baggage with religion, but I try to recognize that my sometimes instinctive knee-jerk reaction is both rushed and often times misplaced blame.
There's honestly too much to unload on the topic as a whole, but I think you and ApexVeritas both have some good points. And when it comes to human suffering, whether talking about ourselves or others, it's difficult to avoid downplaying or overplaying things at least a little bit.
I've heard religious sermons that try to downplay the sheer depth of what people can suffer and experience, all while promoting the notion that God's comfort will carry anyone through anything. Which I find both absurd and insulting, when considering more extreme experiences that have been all too frequent throughout human history.
And then on the flipside there's woketards, who will lament just about anything they can conceivably bitch about and cry crocodile tears on social media about it all for years. Or woketard agendas that try to overplay the suffering of x, y, or y groups, all so they can throw more political money and power grabbing laws into the mix.
And then even when there are legitimate situations where people are suffering, there's only so much that can practically be done to do a damn thing. Whether we're talking about people in our own country, or in countries abroad.
It just all sucks sometimes. And far too many people claim to have all the answers.
Reminds me of that Sean Bean Frankenstein series. Not sure how historically accurate all the stuff about government votes on cadaver laws were, but it was certainly a fascinating and eye opening backdrop and set-up for the plot.
There was also an interesting film by Michael Crichton in 1978 called Coma. Really fucking creepy. Not to mention horrifyingly plausible.