More or less, its got different idiosyncrasies but definitely a lot of overlap.
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A sneaker is more or less a basketball shoe and adjacent styles of athletic footwear.
Sneaker collecting started to become a thing in the 70s in the Hip Hop scene in NYC. Sneakers gave people the ability to easily customize their shoes to match a personal style, painting them, dying them etc. In the 80s you got the Nike's Air Jordans, which blew up the scene. You'd have a lot of shoe companies working with different celebs to drive the popularity of the Sneaker. It rapidly takes on the properties of a status symbol.
Now you have Sneakerheads, which is basically a consumer identity that is willing to spend a lot of time and money to ensure that they have a large collection of sneakers that many don't even wear. As with many things, I think there is something cool in there that was ruined by hyper consumptive capitalism.
I think Nolan wants to critique the lack of artistry in Hollywod but is unwilling to meaningfully criticize profit hungry executives (whether purposefully or just through ignorance). Profit motive is ruining film/tv as everything must be perfectly engineered to maximize profits. A certain degree of mass appeal is fine but a lot of movies and TV are just hollow. Hollywood has always had a tension between the commercial and the artistic but lately the artistic has increasingly been losing out, and this has almost certainly been intensified in the past few years due to fears of the lack of profitably of streaming sites. It'll be curious to see how the strikes end up playing out. If they go poorly, it may lead to the creation of a new independent filmmaking scene/institution by the displaced workers.
Propaganda from Russia
BBC Newsnight - Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine (2014)
VICE News - Under Fire with the Azov Battalion (2014)
The Guardian - Ukraine's far-right children's camp (2017)
NBC News - Ukraine's Hyper-Nationalist Military Summer Camp for Kids (2017)
DW Documentary - Women and the Azov battalion in Kyiv, Ukraine (2017)
BBC Newsnight - Ukraine: On patrol with the far-right National Militia (2018)
Associated Press - Nationalist camp in Ukraine trains kids to kill (2018)
TIME - Inside A White Supremacist Militia in Ukraine (2021)
VICE - Why the Far Right Joined the 2013-14 Ukraine Crisis (2021)
Probably the only video game that I've played that has moments which stick with me the same way that my favorite movies and books do. On top of the great writing and fun gameplay, I loved being able to play as a jewish dude just fucking up nazis.
Tyrannicide is a fun word and you can't take it away from me 
If you want to play an evil route, I recommend the Dark Urge route. It does actually provide some fun mechanical rewards for being evil, and is tied pretty interestingly into the plot. Definitely pretty edgelordy, though.
Good playthrough does seem like it has more going for it overall if only because there are just more npcs to interact with as things go on.
Some of these dudes can be salvaged, having grown up and lived around them my whole life. Smoke a bowl, drop some historical fact that's simple but mind-blowing for joeroganites. A fun one is talking about the reality of historical Sparta, e.g. the helots at Thermopylae, compared to popular depiction. If you do it right they'll come back to you for more wild historical stuff and then you hit 'em with them the leftie jab. 
Partisans 1941, real time tactics game about german invasion of the ussr.