falling back into their favorite patterns of “trump bad” + anti-communism + “look at how incompetently these non-whites govern”, seems like. Last one is pretty much the most consistent tenor of NYT’s foreign affairs pieces throughout the years.
🤔 could there end up being a BlueAnon offshoot down the line screaming for a purge of Dem operatives bc “they hit grandpa Joe with the cancer gun and got away with it!!” ?
I got into Elder Scrolls via Oblivion (2006) and spent untold hours in Skyrim. A few weeks ago, I finally got into trying out Morrowind (2002) for the first time ever, with mods expanding into the whole province of Morrowind among others, and its quickly shaping up to be my best experience in Elder Scrolls. The worldbuilding depth and characterization of opposing interests + imagination to paper over the cracks makes Morrowind so much more engaging than even past attempts at modded Skyrim with all my wishlist mods
playing through Morrowind for the first time ever after having bought it years back and only just got to Balmora, and im really blown away by how much more effort was put into the worldbuilding and its cohesion, both by Bethesda and modders. factions, for ex, appear so far to have more flavor and idk, “interactivity” and RP potential for the PC than Oblivion and certainly Skyrim. im invested in this shit, fr.
also it took me about 26 hours(!!) just to move from Seyda Neen to Pelagiad to just settling into Balmora with a v brief visit to Vivec with modded quests and gameplay, im p sure doing the majority of the TR+PC+SHOTN combo I mentioned in my other comment would take hundreds of hours easily. one could prob start now and by the time they reach the end of current content, another update to one of those three Tamriel Rebuilt/Project Tamriel mods will have dropped.
Me feeling apprehensive whenever I meet fellow diaspora folk bc idk if they’re going to be ‘apolitical’ or this kind of gross comprador lib. Bonus points if they’re either of those types and white-worshippers.
I might have actually gotten gotten into a shouting match if a Chinese person I knew had this insane sign, I already get infuriated when a Chinese-American lib just casually drops “China bad” shit unprompted in conversation.