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Alphaman! Technically lambda rogue. ToME4 counts too, at least as lore goes, but it definitely doesn't fit the general theme (and is fantasy, not scifi). Here's a decent list of scifi roguelikes, which might help you out.

Being fair, Vat, pretty much everything goes well with cheese sauce.

I mean, like. Everything. All of it.

If potato is a vegetable, that.

Onions... no. Literally the only thing with onions in it I can stand are sour cream and onion potato chips. Otherwise the things taste unequivocally foul to me

It's really annoying. Lots and lots of stuff that looks and smells really good have onions in it, but the bloody things just ruin the experience for me. Even if they're really finely diced or whatever... doesn't matter. If I had a tenner for every time someone told me that you can't taste the onions that was a damn dirty lie, I could have funded my bachelor's degree.

Kinda' like shredded coconut and baked things. I hate shredded coconut with an unholy passion. Get. Out. Of. My. Teeth. You goddamn foul tasting thread wannabe.

Haven't consumed something produced by commercial non-game media in years, and commercial game incredibly sparingly. Stuff like this is just more incintive to go "fuck 'em" and cease patronage completely, bleh.

Topic related, well, is first. Anyone heard of if riaa dude was talking out of ass or not, and if not exactly how it's manifesting? How much day one activity are we seeing?

Ah ha. Yeah, I've only had hard pears, at least in actual fruit form. Some soft ones from like, cans or whatever, but I always figured that was more due to preparation than actual fruit consistency. Mostly because the only ones I've really ate were the ones that grew on the tree in the yard

I'm searching for an old game that a friend of mine played 9~10 years ago when he was 12 on an old mac, before imacs were invented, where you built your castle, and if it got captured it would show a picture of a guillotine or an executioner or something. You could attack other people, and the map was divided in old european provinces, like saxony and argony and etc.

Castles II - Siege and Conquest? Still have the actual diskettes for that laying around somewhere, though it's doubtful they still work (and I don't have anything that could read them, anyway ).

Wait, wait. Wait. I thought there had been goliathxelisa subtext like... forever. I mean, I was under that impression when I was much younger and actually watching the show when it first came on. Way before they started boating through the mists or whatev'.

I vaguely remember the wacky adventures pulling off some sorta' interesting world building, at least.

I don't understand what part of American history is worthy of being idealized...

Innit a lot of it not so much idealization as being invented whole cloth, though? Actual myth instead of nostalgia or idealized history. The one that crosses my mind most often is the "christian founders" silliness or certain groups raging hardon for the puritans in defiance of actual history, but that's far from the only ones...

Re: MSH: Better put, in a lot of ways. My issue is more with the stuff that's just blatantly wrong and being pulled out of someone's hat to support some kind of agenda, yah. Shit gets annoying.

Or perhaps idealization is inherently a bad thing, since it's not indicative of reality.

Honestly, it depends on what's being idealized and what you're trying to accomplish by doing so -- idealization is almost necessarily a thing done as a means of social engineering -- and it's a hell of a tightrope to walk.

We idealize rationality and generally consider that a good thing, ferex, but most of the defensibility of that idealization comes from practical considerations (getting the best results out of doing so) rather than any particularly close connection to reality. Aristotle still has one of the better one-line descriptions for humans, and "rational" isn't involved

I guess you could say that it's no more an inherently bad than what is existent in reality inherently a good thing. Our reaction on a social and personal level and the extent either methodological tool is beneficial depends entirely on the goal, and even then may shift in importance based on which step toward the goal you're currently addressing.