I think any vaguely non-mainstream person in the US has felt the wrath of the culture you've described here. However, I think it would be more accurate to label this phenomenon as "Christian assholery" rather than just generally referring to it as "The South."
VLC has shown its age for like, the last 9 years now. There are a lot of minor inconveniences with the program that add up and have made me seek out better options. However, I haven't managed to completely get away from it since it still plays everything and mostly does what I want it to do.
The next best option I've found in the last year is KMPlayer. Lots of customization, mostly plays all files (AV1 stuff still crashes my KMP despite me having the codecs installed, whatever), and the video image doesn't artifact if you seek back and forth a lot like it does in VLC.
Edit: just realized which community I was in. There is a free Android version, though I have never used it. FWIW, I use KMP on desktop with strict firewall filters to block it from doing anything sus.
Reddit recently implemented a social credit score as well that not even mods can access.
This is the first I've heard about this. Got any more info about it? A quick Google search just gives me Reddit results from people talking about China's social credit score system instead.
The henchman carrying the ladder in the background stopping for 1 sec to go "aaah" is the best part. The next best part is whatever that dance move is called when the James Bond guy turns around from the wall and starts shaking his hand in time to the music.
Someone told me this a week ago and I think it's a perfect summary of what happened:
disliking cyberpunk is an opinion people who don't form opinions have. I'm sure there are people who had glaring technical issues ruin their playthrough and that's fair. But for most of them it's just a fear of clowns/ hatred of pineapple pizza mouth sound they can make.
I have been playing Phantom Liberty a lot. I've enjoyed it more than Starfield and BG3.
Before PL came out, I had started playing Sea of Stars. But it was extremely difficult to get into. Besides the S+++ tier pixel art, I thought the writing was poor: boring characters, bad dialogue, bad worldbuilding all made worse by slow pacing. I am gonna revisit this game sometime in the future I guess, though I don't understand its appeal yet.
Also I played Armored Core 6 for a few minutes and died to the tutorial mission helicopter like 10 times in a row. I guess some people find that fun, lol.
I hope you're asking in good faith. I'll try and give you a response as tl;dr as possible here.
Racism: hating people due to their ethnicity
Not racism: criticizing people (even of a single nationality or ethnicity) because of their politics
In the context of this article, most people in the comments are expressing privacy concerns over China controlling a larger percentage of the gaming market, and thus increasing the risk for demanding more data from the users installing that software on their machines. If anyone here were expressing racist concerns about this, people would be making disparaging remarks about yellow skin color or narrow eye shape, or something like that.
Furthermore, incorrectly identifying racism where there is none actually detracts from the actual anti-racist sentiment - in fact, the one I believe you hold - by muddying the definition of what is and isn't actually racism.
So, related question for the other people in the comments section here, what's the best method for copying all your data to other drives? Surely it's not just copy, paste, then wait?
Good writeup, OP.
I think any vaguely non-mainstream person in the US has felt the wrath of the culture you've described here. However, I think it would be more accurate to label this phenomenon as "Christian assholery" rather than just generally referring to it as "The South."