Red_Shift [comrade/them, he/him]

In Halo 1 the level 343 guilty spark was terrifying as a child because a scene basically from Aliens plays out and you’re running into this new type of enemy that is fast and hard to kill, even your normal enemies are afraid of them, you’re wandering around in this mazelike building where everything looks the same and all you run into are corpses and flood and one insane marine who kills himself in front of you, you’re running out of ammo and medpacs, there’s no obvious way out. You can only revert to last checkpoint or restart the level completely. I felt relieved to run into a covenant because it meant I was on the right track, only to kill them and get lost again. I had to play during the day with the lights on.

Also this game scared the hell out of me as a very young kid but I only really saw the intro cutscene, something about all the rust and dark setting frightened me.

Yeah, if we were in 1910’s Russia there wouldn’t be a massive population to point to as communists as reinforcement, but it wouldn’t make them any less correct for being communists. All ideologies start out as a minority. Liberalism was also a minority when it was first emerging but it still became the dominant ideology.

To try to steelman the point in the meme though, there is probably some value to seeing that 90 million people support something and then looking into it to see if there’s anything valid there. It should raise some concern that you could be wrong, but it doesn’t mean you are.

Man famous for acting like a child on TV who was paid with public funds condemns people for taking public funds when they actually need it.

the ladies go crazy for his lectures on Babylonian political philosophy

I remember having some general concept of power and money corrupting, and people in power furthering their own interests when I was a liberal. “Corruption” is this weird word that they use to cover up the system being inherently opposed to the working class by making it seem like it’s just a few bad apples doing it. So you go on just thinking that if you can only get a good apple in power then good things can happen because it’s the people who have been corrupted, not the system.

“They who can give up collecting STDs to obtain ultra HD goon sessions deserves neither syphilis nor goonery” - Ben Coomlin

Those were the good days. I also remember with Diablo and Starcraft if I lost the case I could randomly type in numbers for the CD key and it would eventually land on a real one.