If you think *any* consultant can influence games to a detrimental degree, your opinions about game development are too out of touch to be worth regarding.

Most of the time, even actual writers don’t get a final say over a game’s writing. The complex approval process is often above their heads.

US Democrats not beating the "Republicans from 5 years ago" allegations ever huh

It really shows the the Dickensian Aspect of the urban environment.

the reason they don’t bother to manufacture the consent beforehand is that everyone just sort of does it for them post-facto now

mpd + rmpc
rmpc.mierak.dev
simple, lightweight and customizable

Found this a bit amusing and had to share it somewhere.

"The problem, therefore, is not one of good or
evil, but one of esthetics... For this reason, I am bound by the esthetics of the situation to call it to your attention. To struggle against the dreamers who dream ugliness, be they men or gods,
cannot but be the will of the Nameless."

Where Sam, a "failed" rebel in his own right, after being brought back to life delivers a speech highlighting a similar theme:

Microsoft in search for ever yielding golden goose and taking all the wrong lessons from Apple has imbibed itself with the idea that a polished OS is one totally invisible to the user - thus the best OS is one with which the user doesn't even feel that they are interacting with.

Using Windows since XP up until last couple of years has made my PC experience feel more and more alienating as time went on.

A fellow Zen user here. Try Vivaldi if you haven't. It has some of the best theme customization out there as well as some outstanding features you might find interesting.

At this point the trend seems to be dying which I am quite hopeful about.

But it also plays into a usually far-right pattern of thinking, that can go like "nobody thinks that, everybody knows what I know, and thinks what I think, but they are afraid of the backlash that telling the truth incurs, so they are pretending in order to score points"

It is kinda perfect for this because it not only plays into the suspicions of women that somebody is falsely presenting themselves in order to be perceived in more of a positive light or try to manipulate them.

The more its popularity grows with apolitical crowd the higher the likelihood that it'll eventually be somewhat co-opted by the right and used as a tool to enforce traditional gender norms by
labeling anybody whose interests don't align with a desired gender definition as performative.