I’m talking about my feeling from watching them and about the design of the aliens, this might have been unintentional initially in the first movie.

First, I don’t think I can find anything not perfect about Alien or Aliens, but the “female-led” context there is emotionally strong in very primal sense, liking those movies doesn’t prove anything because both movies (especially the second one) just give a new spin to pretty traditional perception of women.

Xena is nice, but uses some stereotypes as well, just more lesbian than traditional, ahem.

Anyway, I wanted to say I’ve been accused of being such a whiner and screecher about Disney fake Star Wars, and Rey there is just a shitty character.

Star Wars outside of movies has plenty of very cool female characters, and the “conservative fans” Disney accused of being racist and misogynist are supposed to know most of them.

So let’s please remember that companies are sometimes trying to do damage control with things that are just bad, by accusing people not liking those of racism or misogyny.

It’s a huge difference when you hear just that some movie is not cool and when you also hear that those calling it not cool are very bad people. If you didn’t like the movie in question yourself, you might stop telling others it’s bad, and even try to reconsider your opinion, probably buying another ticket.

From the outside it seems that your progressive movements were a pretty good tool to spread thin the effort that could have gone someplace right, and also to weaken movements which were targeted at the real problems (for example, in the small world of FOSS it’s how FSF and GNU were slowly marginalized into something perceived as unreasonable and Stallman specifically pressed out, and no, his logically correct defense of some kinds of pedophilia and him being generally cringe were not the reason).

Also let’s please remember that everyone flocking to centralized platforms was welcomed by those progressive movements, their activists for whichever reason thought that the scale and the censorship will work in their favor and not those calling to fell the tall trees.

So - this is the logical outcome of what various movements have been doing. This part should make you optimist. And the feeling that you can’t certainly show at something at say that it will succeed should be liberating, not depressing.

XP was hated when it came out, but it wasn’t that bad. Then Vista and 7 happened. Then it got worse.

XP was like 2K, but with fancy plastic appearance and some unneeded things.

I have fond memories of reading Star Wars books in Notepad, in plain text (or RTF containing only text), in some font like Fixedsys, I think, black on white, at night. Ironically my eyesight didn’t get much worse then.

XP was nice enough.

That, and either getting Linux versions of industry standard software (Microsoft 365, Adobe CS, 3DS Max, etc) or decent support through Wine/Proton.

You won’t. Industry doesn’t want to waste money to port such enormous legacy codebases to Linux, when most people still run Windows.

Windows has to become a minority OS first.

And anti-cheat - I don’t like it, but it seems there will be working kernel-level anticheats for Linux.

You forgot hardware support, nice that it seems not an issue for some people today, but Linux hardware support is still not there. Drivers for Windows are made by manufacturers, drivers for Linux are often made by Linux developers.

No, the more you have, the more incentive to be evil.

Also works with power to make decisions, obviously. Especially to make decisions for others.

That’s where the “small government” thing comes from initially, but unfortunately it can’t come some evolutionary way from benevolent oligarchs and politicians voted in. You have to defeat them both first, managing to avoid creating a new vertical power structure, and if successful, creating a clean environment, and then you can build something.

Now comes a question, though, why build something that has been tried and has devolved into what you have now, and will devolve again much faster, not in a century or so, but in a decade or less, because you can’t make the environment clean in all dimensions.

No SO, but I’m trying. Since “people”, I’ll see my dog, that part is normal. I’ll be quite worried and anxious if the psychologist I’m talking to would suddenly become out of contact, especially when it’s usual weekday and time.

I’ll definitely become agitated and will run around looking for my mom.

I’ll be scared for every girl I’ve cared about who won’t be online since a certain moment.

But due to self-gaslighting, I’ll likely wait for a few days before assuming that things are very wrong.