(Most) people here aren’t really volcel. It’s just good to have a culture of not encouraging people to be horny online, especially in a space that can be male dominated. Helps keeps the creepiness down.

Getting mildly criticized on twitter.

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Lmao.

Someone pay me to talk about trains for 8 hours at a time please.

Star Wars is meant to be lighthearted and mostly for kids, but there definitely is some critique of empire, and like The Emperor manipulating war to gain power was partially inspired by George Bush during the Iraq war.

Mass Effect is kind of interesting because they do deal with some issues relevant to real world politics, particularly like the way the genocide of the Krogan is justified and carried out, but it also does silly shit like having species of aliens who are always bad guys.

First guy’s at least approaching a coherent point.

You could do a lot worse than the sort of Mike Duncan thesis that revolutions only happen when a country’s leadership has completely failed in some major way. Even if you are some weird Russian monarchist, why would you like the guy who completely failed during the Russo-Japanese war, was doing an awful job managing World War 1, and then got his shit wrecked by a bunch of scrappy communists.

What the fuck? Today I learned that Spain holds two cities on the African Mainland. Totally fucked.

They’re also huge in industrial equipment and transportation. Amtrak’s new locomotives are coming from Siemens.