Or just asking friends and family for advice.

Hoplite - simple mechanics, deep game play

Hard to describe. I started to feel the same way about the real world as I did about the world described in the books. Like the high tech, low life concept - just because we have shiny things does not mean we have a good life. And developing a tendency for rather diverse and/or weird friend groups who band together to fight for our place in this world. I mean, the books obviously crank everything up to 11, but the prower structures seem very similar.

I was reading Shadowrun books about evil megacorporations who are mightier than nation states and indigenous liberation movements against them, so I paid a lot of attention to real world politics when I read the news about stuff like NAFTA and the EZLN or the MAI agreement.

social democracy = socialism = communism = USSR. Why do we even have some many different words?

AFAIK it’s not so much “flesh and blood”, but more about accepting the responsibility of being a parent.

Shadowrun - it had a tremendous effect on my actual worldview (as did other cyberpunk works). The near-future cyberpunk setting offers plenty of opportunity for satire, being rooted in this world makes some geography and history relatable and mixing it with fantasy elements does not only make it more colorful and varied, but also prevents unrealistic stuff from breaking my immersion, because it does not pretend to be realistic.

If you have to explain that much about your story, it just means that you weren’t able to show your story (or universe). So it’s either not a good story or you’re not a good writer. After all, we call them “TV shows”, not “TV explains”. And it had strong “it was just a dream/wasn’t real” vibes.

Tech: https://strudel.cc/

I think dropping weights on them counts as “treating them badly”, but I’m no expert.

• Talk to your colleagues: clarify requirements, question assumptions, get feedback, talk about best practices and why you do stuff the way you do it
• Single responsibility principle

Train Valley is surprisingly good. I like the combination of a geometry puzzle, planning which train to run when and real time pressure (you can pause, but you still have to multitask a lot).

You can do that? Stop playing a game when you’re not having fun anymore?

AFAIK (and obviously not very nuanced): when you’re living in a colony, national independence (-> nationalism) can be considered “leftist” because it’s an increase in self-governance and self-determination. Black nationalism covers a lot of concepts and goals (and several centuries), from founding an actual independent nation (e.g. because the white supremacist society is seen as fundamentally broken) to promoting building independent structures by and for Black people, buying from Black owned businesses etc. As it is seen as a way to empower marginalized groups, it can be seen as leftist. Obviously, things can also become weird and/or right wing rather fast.

How many from the Left?

According to the list: one (Quintez Brown). Which is surprising, as the title says “Not one”.

Its too bad if the game collapses at some point since it really has promise.

No one denies the game has promise. The problem is that it does not have much else. Having ideas is the easy part in game development.

They were banned for at least some time though.

Yes. But that does not mean, “every jewish person” gets treated like this. They might (because antisemitism is on the rise), but this case is not a good example for that.

And he may have strongly opposed the Netanyahu regime and the article may have watered it down as “in favor of peace and reconciliation” or he may have been paying lip service or whatever. I don’t know that. And yes, this can be a slippery slope: how much is enough “clarity”? Who gets to decide that? And in what cases (Gaza isn’t the only place where atrocities happen)? But people can also think “This is too much. You need to speak up or don’t want to work with you.” without it necessarily being antisemitism.

He is an Israeli citizen and music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. I’d say he can be seen as representing Israel (Israel, not necessarily the current regime) on a cultural level. Russian athletes can be barred from international events - why is it too much to ask to distance himself from the atrocities in Palestine?

Example for art stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-oAtxjnDlQ

I was using the wording of OP who seems to be talking about tokens. The service asks the trusted entity if the token is valid, the trusted entity deletes the token after the first time.