DS is great, factions are interesting and well balanced. There’s some pretty wild stuff in some of them but nothing that seems stronger than the top tier base factions.

I know, they just didn’t provide any details about how or where in that comment, though they followed it up with a link after I complained.

Why?

This is much more useful, much appreciated.

Played Twilight Imperium last weekend. 7 players, playing to 12 points, about half the table using Discordant Stars factions.

Wrapped it up after about 12 hours and gave the win to the player in the strongest looking position because it was probably going to take another 2 hours to finish and we were all very tired.

Very fucking helpful, thanks.

Is it even possible to play Tribes anymore? Are there any active servers, for any version?

You’ll formalise your knowledge in college, for now just work on whatever you enjoy most without worrying too much about what its teaching you.

I can see why XD

Named after Rizzo the rat?

Saying that “The objectification of women is at the heart of 90s pop culture” seems overstated to me. Of course there was sexism in popular culture, in particular 90s hiphop was almost universally extremely sexist, but there were also a lot of strong female presences and male media that challenged traditional masculinity.

As another commenter mentions, the 90s had a huge list of iconic female led bands that didn’t play into sexist tropes (The Breeders, Hole, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Bjork, Elastica, The Cranberries, Sonic Youth, Veruca Salt, Sleater Kinney…). Blur was famously neck-and-neck with Oasis for popularity and they are the antithesis of “lad culture”, which is what sparked the rivalry between the two bands and their fans. Nirvana’s lyrics often explored feminist concepts (though to be fair I assume those messages were lost on a lot of their fans) and issues like male isolation and mental illness. You could argue that grunge was in many ways a reaction against “lad culture” and mainstream ideas of masculinity.

This is obviously not real.