BarnieusCalgar [he/him]

They didn’t really help filter out low-effort content and we’re mostly used as an “I disagree” button.

Okay, but I want an “I disagree” button.

Removing them meant it took a little bit of effort to dogpile someone and the site seemed much friendly after they were removed.

It doesn’t really stop that though, it just turns anonymous dislikes into a flood of mad inbox replies.

I think removing them did a lot to shift site culture for the better.

What is better about it, though?

Needs to be pronounced “thar” though.

Why did the Soviet Military go along with this, anyways? Did they really gain that much/anything from all of this?

I think that there’s not necessarily a strict contradiction between the proposition that Kojima is both a Radlib & also Anti-Imperialist/Anti-Capitalist; or at the very least, there would be little contradictory in him being a “Radlib” and liking Che & Fidel, who are by far the easiest Communists to find unobjectionable if you don’t have strongly interrogated political opinions. However, does this also extend to sympathy for the DPRK, or China, for example? Admittedly high bars to clear for most people, but there are few who truly know the way, let alone walk it.

What I’m getting at is that I think his beliefs are more of a moralistic ideological soup than anything. Kojima can absolutely have based takes, and he is probably the best politically educated AAA Video Game Auteur out there. But that’s both a really specific pool of reference, and one that has a generally low bar to it.

But then again all of this is coming from me, and I’m nothing if not a mélange of half-read theory piled on to a number of personal life grievances, so. I should probably not cast judgement is what I’m getting at. :shrug-outta-hecks: