The TL;DR is the image in that link, the source being German projections of an escalation of hostilities by Russia.
I highly doubt Putin is looking to escalate in the way the Germans are predicting in that image. He's entirely content to bleed the West in Ukraine and doesn't need to do any of the things listed to achieve that end.
Building BRICS and opening another front in Taiwan while keeping Ukraine as an open-pit money fire is more dangerous to the West than the German projections-- and the idea of the West bringing an ultimatum to Russia's doorstep in this way is laughable.
Yep. It was silverstring on the media side and DiGRA on the academic side. These were the two halves of cito-genesis about GamerGate. Your silverstring aparatniks would propogate GameJournoPro listposts with academic sourcing from DiGRA to lend a veneer of legitimacy to it.
At this point you have enough citational inertia that all the anti-GG stuff is 'settled science.' Honestly, that makes me look at the remainder of the narrative sideways. How much else of what I learned as a liberal is leftist nonsense?
SM Stirling's long abandoned The Lords of Creation series' second book, In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, probably fits your bill.
It's a setting where the golden age sci-fi was right about Venus and Mars. The Martian Book has a fallen high Martian Culture, which the Cold War Superpowers start interacting with.
Stirling's Emberverse series gets a pass from me, but this book was good stuff.
The Float is on the ship, rather than the player, so you have to have loading screens to go exploring to prevent critical errors. That's the innovation.
If I wanted to steel-man, I'd say writing a space game with okay graphics in a 20 year old engine is pushing the boundary. I'd still ask 'why' that boundary needs to be pushed... but eeking performance out of outdated software is somewhat innovative. It's just not necessary.
Very much like businesses are required to pursue profits due to intervention by the state (in the form of lawsuits regarding fiduciary duty to preserve profits in the face of fiat currency's inflation,) you'd best believe that 'discriminatory' hours could be regulated against by the People's Democratic Republic of New York. You will violate your Sabbath and like it, goy!
Yep. The other wild thing is that the golf tourney is probably a similar grift; given the father was both the organizer of the golf charity AND the head of the open hand foundation, the son's level of involvement beyond being the face and the beneficiary of the embezzlement is questionable. The whole crime smacks of a 'family business' in the worst possible sense.
The thots go to twich to fish for simps, because that's where the lonely/impressionable men are. These camwhores push the boundary with risque streams, get slapped on the wrist with a suspension, then immediately return to do it again and again and again. They're driving traffic to other sites like OnlyFans where they can monetize the audience they're pulling off of Twitch. If the bans had teeth, or the simps weren't on twitch, then the endless parade of 'Twitch Metas' would stop. As it stands, the degeneration of the site into a frontend for adult modeling will continue.
I think broadening your question to the whole of speculative fiction, rather than just sci-fi, would be useful in terms of framing. Let me explain:
People who imagine things being different enough to write about the topic tend to be discontented with the way things are, which accounts for the bias towards leftism in the genre. Not that there's nothing inherently leftist about imagining the future, per se. It's more that the pool of people who are dissatisfied enough to do so will necessarily exclude more of those who are satisfied with the present. There will be exceptions among those who are intellectually curious enough to imagine different sets of societal compromises, but the majority of conservative writers will be practical and focused on what is and was, as opposed to what could be.
A counterpoint would be Captain Nemo from 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea being a utopian revolutionary figure, which falls into the left's wheelhouse. As is usual with more complex characters, they defy reductive explanations.
TL;DR: An investigative youtuber I follow, Upper Echelon Gaming, has a take I disagree with; namely that ESG is largely smoke & mirrors, a scam based on appearances vs. actual substance.
I don't think it's a meaningful distinction, since they fund the commie-lie/narrative based on who is willing to speak the leftist shibboleths, and that friend/enemy distinction is the only meaningful one.