Do you really believe this? Red hat is paying people to shill for them on lemmy? I don't suppose I could trouble you for some evidence of that, could I?
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Paid moderators? Why do you think they get paid? Who do you think is paying them?
If you enjoy the vibes of Baumgartner Restoration, there's a big backlog there. It's art restoration, so you kind of have to turn off the "fine art is money laundering for the ultra wealthy" part of your brain to enjoy it, but if you can do that, it's quite soothing.
Frostprime is a high-energy streamer with sometimes problematic chat/jokes who posts daily YouTube videos, often of Slay the Spire. I go through cycles where I find him incredibly funny for a few weeks and then can't stand him anymore.
There's a whole series of Elden Ring Bingo matches where speed runners race to complete various tasks in Elden Ring. It's pretty fun if you're into it, probably dreadfully boring if not.
Clips of British panel shows can be good. I've been watching Taskmaster recently, which actually has full episodes on YouTube, very nice. Would I Lie to You clips are also pretty top notch. I think there are some full episodes too, but I haven't really looked.
I'll second Colin Furze, he's great. A sort of similar vibe (not really) is I Did a Thing. He often makes things, hardly ever wears shoes, and puts way too much effort (just the right amount) into his throwaway bits. He's also an actual leftist and half of Boy Boy, although his leftism rarely comes up on the I Did a Thing channel. My one issue with him is that I'm vegan and some of his videos are incredibly not vegan friendly. Lotta gross stuff with dead animal bits, so if that's an issue for you, be wary.
Oh, also, Viva La Dirt League is pretty great and also has a huge backlog. You'll almost certainly enjoy at least one of their long-running series. I particularly like Souls Logic and wish there were more of it.
Pathologic 2! It's definitely not Outer Wilds (nothing is), and you might not be into it, but you definitely won't figure it out in an hour. It's a bit text heavy too. Like Disco Elysium levels of wordy. I don't know whether that's a pro or con for you right now.
Wait, you're bothered by someone saying Kevin Hart is a shitty comedian? Have I read this right? I hate to say it, but if that's enough for you to be mad at the ebil hexbears, you should really probably just keep us blocked
Well that is a tantalizingly sparse wikipedia article. If I had more time, I'd pirate the book it seems to be summarizing, because it seems like it could be an interesting read. Have you read the book? Or did you make do with the extremely sparse wikipedia article?
Only IRL, in that socialist state that had people trying, things went differently, because officials and directors and administrators felt that such a system would threaten their power.
Would you mind providing some evidence for this claim? I assume you're talking here about the Soviet Union, but I have never heard that Soviet scientists tried to build an internet but were stopped by government officials. I'd like to see some evidence of this before I just take your word for it, you know? Thanks!
Oh I have no idea about in an app! I use the web interface. I hope you figure it out though! Our emojis are great
No it isn't! Diablo is just the tastiest one! It's got a background sweetness that's really interesting and tasty
There are a couple of options. If you know the name of the emoji (or have a decent guess), you can type a colon and then type the name, and it should auto complete for you. If you don't know the name, you can look at the emoji picker and scroll through all the custom ones. (Look for the asterisk/star looking thing all the way to the right in the emoji picker toolbar.)
I hope this was clear enough to be helpful! 
OP, why did you post this? What do you hope people reading will get out of it?
Why didn't you link the original source: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/09/27/18859198.php
Did you notice that the text sounds like it was written by a bad ai?
If I were a little more cynical, I'd say you're posting this because you want people to read the headline, think to themselves "China bad", then move on with their day, doing no more investigation into the matter.
If the above paragraph was not your intention, please explain to me what exactly you were hoping to achieve here.
I'm sorry, but this is a silly and contradictory opinion. For one thing, what if a writer wants to write a story about racism or gender? Should they be allowed to write the story they want to write, even though you consider it "political"? For another, games have been political since extremely early in the history of games. The original Deus Ex is from 2000 and most of its themes were explicitly political. Fallout: New Vegas has multiple gay characters and (through its super mutants) deals with issues of racial prejudice. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream came out in 1996 and one of its main characters is a black woman.
What I've noticed about people who say they don't want "politics" in their games is that they really just want to play games with political messages they already agree with. There's no such thing as an apolitical work of art, and that applies to games too, unless you're saying games aren't (and shouldn't be) art?
Play the games you want to play, I don't give a shit. But don't make the mistake of thinking that games are "more political" than they used to be. They aren't.
Edit: Oh, you're the same person who was whining about Sweet Baby Inc a few days ago. I'm wasting my time talking to you. Have a good day