I get the impression it was very different in the early 20th century, but I honestly think that fascists in the early 21st century on the whole probably don't even realize they're fascists and will reject being called one purely on reflex. You see this particularly well in a lot of terminally online nerd spaces where people will state and argue for cis white male patriarchal supremacist positions without a moments hesitation but will react with complete incredulity if you call them on it. Some of them are being self aware crypto-fasch sure...but a lot of them just deny it because they have just enough awareness and self preservation that they recognize that makes them a bad person and doing any work to be better is much harder than just pretending.

All this is to say: the people who voted in favor of fascism are the ones already excited to slap a swastika on. A huge number of the people who voted "Don't Know" are probably down to fuck with fascism...they would just rather call it liberalism.

I don't want to do the math on how much I've donated but I can tell you now its been more than $27.

Yeah I think so. I went looking for it on twitter proper and I can't find it, but I did find him responding to people saying he deleted a post because their replies convinced him it was a bad take and he didn't want to leave it up. Shockingly rare instance where someone actually has their mind changed online.

It looks like he deleted it and did a bit of a mea culpa and realized he was talking nonsense....for what its worth.

100% this. Its absolutely no different than when they were telling people to vote for Biden because he was "clearly the candidate more qualified to end the violence" even as they approved more weapons and shut down any dissent. The premise that the democrats represent a position that is in anyway distinguishable from the republicans on the issue of Gaza is especially hilarious to me because it is practically democratic voters regurgitating and accepting republican talking points even as the democratic party itself denies it.

I get that g*mers are awful and it's not for everybody..but comrades...nothing quite tickles the dopamine receptors in my brain the way seeing two top level street fighter players go at it does. Fighting games are beautiful things.

Esports are sports.

Eh..I disagree. If anything I feel like it just adds to the scrappiness/underdog status of the rebels. Every man and woman in the rebel alliance ( a few exceptions not withstanding) is a person who was convinced to join the cause. How can they compete with such a dominating totalizing force that can just grow more ground troops in a tank?

...where there's a will and the force is on your side...there's a way!

Edit: also if you want to get technical at that point it isnt just clone troops but I put that aside cause obviously that's extended universe nitty gritty that's secondary canon anyway.

Honest to god that movie really made me reevaluate a lot of my opinions and criticisms of star wars world building up to that point. It's not exactly a hot take that star wars is kinda fudgy on physics and that "the empire" and "the rebels" were kind of vaguely defined in the OT to sort of let you fill in the gaps and project what you wanted but I never really questioned the basic physical possibility of how these groups could physically exist in their world based on the information we had.

How the fuck did Palpatine build the death star destroyer fleet??? Where did he find people to man it??? Even if AOTC for all you may criticize didn't just go "lol clone machine go wrrrrrrr!!! Armies appear and go boom boom!"

I don't want to give this guy undo credit but I think it's worth pointing out that the one election he got "wrong" was apparently the election of 2000. He predicted Gore would win.

.....yeah.

Yeah...only thing that makes me feel like this is still semi-hyperbolic is...didn't Afghanistan and the last quarter of a century plus already kinda show that to be the case? Ukraine itself already kinda seems like the result of that sense that the west is insurmountably powerful being squashed.

raytracing to avoid carefully designed baked lightmaps

There's some truth to your post but I gotta push back a bit on this one. Raytracing isn't so much a way to avoid having to generate lightmaps or cut costs so much as it is just an objectively superior option to lightmaps in terms of quality. In fact I would argue that Raytracing is maybe the singular reason games didn't quite look good enough 5 years ago. Polycounts aside Raytracing is basically the number one thing that's separated graphics in engine from prerendered cinematics that always seem to have that extra oomf. Lightmaps are largely generated by the computer anyway and even with raytracing both require an artist's labor to light the scene. The only downside and why you'd ever opt for lightmaps over raytracing is performance cause rendering real time reflections at 120fps in 4k is expensive.