And the reason thatI know that's risky is because I WAS a geek who got sketchy politics from it @Maxmordon
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My concern dating to 2009 is because that's when I first started to outlearn old shit nerd habits
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Like, back in the 2000's, everyone seemed forced to like Halo, or the Star Wars prequels, or Naruto. And I didn't care.
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not plugged into Naruto but the Star Wars and Halo backlash developed really quickly
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Halo in particular v rapidly became a symbol of being what we'd today call basic
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like how DS9 was v highly rated in the 90s and fondly remembered now but on the Internet you had to hate it
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you were required to say it was a ripoff of Babylon 5, it was a rule
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I have a friend who swears Mass Effect is a ripoff of Babylon 5.
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Babylon 5 holds a patent on the concept of science fiction with an overarching plot
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(the core similarity, the whole cyclical alien war thing, is a trope that goes back to Lensman and the 1930s)
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anyway Babylon 5 is itself a ripoff of Star Control 2
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and the stuff B5 didn't rip off, Mass Effect did rip off
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literally a race of powder blue women whose species trait is being sexy psychics
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