Just got to thinking about this after those threads on The Expanse and Military Sci-Fi (which admittedly is probably the sub-genre least affected by this trend).
I know the case can be made for the existence of some conservative authors or sometimes conservative themes, of course they exist, but are they “swimming upstream” so-to-speak? Going against the flow of “the mainstream” of Sci-Fi?
I’m not looking for a list of conservative authors by the way, I want to hear if the people here think that Sci-Fi as a genre may or may not have an inherent bias towards the new, the previously unseen, and thus “progressive” ideas and ideologies. Not even necessarily to castigate Sci-Fi, merely to attempt to understand what’s happening.
The “Sad Puppies” folks probably have some insights on this subject but I don’t know much about them beyond their existence and their claim that the Sci-Fi book awards system has been subverted by leftist/progressive ideologues:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Puppies
Sad Puppies activists accused the Hugo Awards "of giving awards on the basis of political correctness and favoring authors and artists who aren't straight, white and male".
I do see the ideas of sci-if and “progressivism” as connected, but I’m not sure if that’s an inherent aspect of the genre, or if that is perhaps a cultural relic. I lean towards the idea that it is likely largely cultural (i.e. well respected sci-fi authors of old put “culturally progressive” themes in their books about Scientific “progress”, and that has carried on to this day) but I’m interested in where everyone else falls on the subject.
If you can’t that means zionists control the US government and white nationalists are a non-entity
I’m building a tabletop/“barcade” style emulation machine as a gift.
It’ll be two players and emulate everything up to the PS1 era (hopefully)
I’d like recommendations on your absolute favorite 2+ player games, with a focus on co-op but versus is fine too.
Ideally games meant for an arcade button/joystick control scheme, too.
Right now I have a couple of the classics in mind, like the Double Dragon games, TMNT arcade game, some Mortal Kombat, those kinds of things, but I’m really out of my depth when it comes to “good arcade/retro coop games”, so please list as many fun multiplayer games as you can think of (up to the PS1 era preferably).
Edit with a little more detail:
Emulator system is a Pi4 running RetroArch. It’s capable of running games up-to the ps1/ n64 era, but that’s where it starts to run into problems with the more demanding, usually 3D games. For a reference example, it can run SM64 smoothly enough, but really struggles with Goldeneye. I know goldeneye is a bit of a special case, but that’s roughly the era I’m looking to stop at with this, if anyone has experience with this kind of emulation I’m all ears!
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is there is any group of people who should go out of their way to not dehumanize their enemies - what is the name of this group?
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do you support ethno-nationalism in general, or only for chosenites?
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if you don’t support ethno-nationalism in general, why do you support the ethno-nationalist, racist, apartheid, anti-christian government of israel?
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if you oppose some aspects of the zionist movement, do you feel compelled to stay silent about those subjects “lest you provide grist for mUh AnTi-sEmiTes”?
I’ll edit in any other good questions that people suggest
Israel funded hamas to keep the region unstable and unable to organize effectively
USA funded the mujahideen to keep the region unstable and unable to organize effectively
Israel was warned multiple times by allies about an impending attack
USA was warned multiple times by allies about an impending attack
Israeli response is stifled by their own decisions to move troops away from the border AFTER BEING WARNED
USA response is stifled by their own decisions to cripple their air defense systems AFTER BEING WARNED
mUh AtRoCiTiEs are committed, justifying extremely profitable (socially, financially, etc) endless war
mUh AtRoCiTiEs are committed, justifying extremely profitable (socially, financially, etc) endless war
I know there are more, let’s make the list