I accept that argument to a degree. Appalachian isn't even descendent from the English, but Scotch-Irish or Ulster Scotts (Ulstermen / People of Ulster in Britain).
Even during the revolution one could argue that each state was effectively it's own ethnicity.
And to be clear, there seems to be much more self-identification by the people of the United States with America rather than with each state. Sure you get proud Texans, but not so many people show Texas loyalty to Wyoming.
The difference from our founding to where we are now is that we have a much more interconnected and homogenous American culture and value set based on the Civic National identity that we cultivated. There is unquestionably and an American Nation (in the same way a person is British), but the issue is whether or not you can call that an ethnos. I tend to lean that the American ethos is still developing (no thanks to mass migration), but there will inevitably be one, and after time it won't make sense to say that an American can really trace his lineage to anywhere back but the US, because of the integration of populations and peoples within it.
They're not. They're also not supposed to be. That's what makes them gambling. The law refers to them as "Game of Chance" versus "Game of Skill". This goes all the way back to the first pinball systems at the turn of the 20th century. The first pinball games were entirely chance. Where the ball landed up is where you would get money or prices from what you put in. The lights and bells are just psychological tricks to keep you addicted to pulling the lever and putting money in.
When states started banning gambling, they started (literally) taking axes to the pinball machines. The pinball manufacturers (... and the mob...) added buttons that controlled levers, to keep the ball from falling into the slot. Thus, making it a game of skill under the law, rather than a game of chance.
I wouldn't consider a true game of chance to be a game, as it does not actually require any interactivity.
I think I know what you're talking about with some sorts of dating sims and the like, and I wouldn't call it purely a visual novel at that point, and it would in fact be a story-game.
The problem there is that the barrier for creation is so low that the specific market is flooded with low effort slop meant for coomers to a point where its impossible to even find the quality.
I'd rather we sort through the slop and see the best rise to the top, rather than wait for corporate gatekeepers to tell us why Concord 5 is GOTY. To be honest, this is something we should be doing here.
Did I ever say that all pollsters were full of shit? If you want to see the break down, go watch some of Richard Barris's work breaking down the cross tabs of his own polls. I'm not going to take a few hours to find you which hour he goes over it. Tell you what, when I see it again, I'll let you know and give you a timestamp.
You're correct, they just don't like it.
White, Black, Red, and Yellow are simply not ethnicities. It also fundamentally undermines the concept of a "white ethno-state". You can't have one. You have to have an ethnicity to focus on, even if that is an emergent ethnicity like "Boer", "Rhodesian", or "American". It's no different from saying, "I want an Asian ethno-state". That's not a thing.
That doesn't qualify as gameplay, it's a choose your own adventure story. There's no unique experience or random chance based on your interaction. I've watched and read movies and books that do precisely the same. There's no gameplay to loop.
Actually, you are a terrorist because you've reduced it down from National Socialist German Workers Party to National Socialist.
How dare you defame the NSDAP with the slur of National Socialist!
Get over your pseudo-intellectual retardation.
I do. They don't seem to like it. Especially the Communists who are benefiting from racial division.
Then I tell them that their ethnicity is actually American. Well, not the Communists. Communists are only Communists. They're barely people. Typically it's the black MAGA supporters who go with me on that.
Don't worry, my campaign to make people accept American as an Ethnicity is actually going better than expected. The plurality of white Trump supporters, particularly white Trump supporters, identify as ethnically American in several of the battleground states. It's actually a leading demographic indicator of Trump support.
They've BEEN doing that.
We need a gaming crash to clear the field and save the industry, frankly.
I don't forgive them for what they did.
We'll use our memories to make a better future.
The thing that got me was:
"At this moment, I am further away in time from the first episode of Animaniacs, than the first episode of Animaniacs was from the Vietnam War."
It's like those weird temporal/historical stats when you realize shit like: Custer's Last Stand and the moon landing took place in someone's life time.
I don't think they count as a race or ethnicity. There's no such thing as "Brown" "Hispanic" or "Latino". You can't take 100% of the population south of the Rio Grande, and north of the Antarctic circle, and call it one race, ethnic group, or demographic.
What it does represent is a nicer form of "La Raza".
I've said it before, National Socialism and Fascism was popular with the West because it is the practical application of Socialism, even more practical than Fabian Socialism. We have already imported EFF style Black National Socialism, and we have already imported "Bronze" National Socialism as well.