I'm replying to this, and risking becoming part of the "HN is turning into Reddit" problem but you raise a fair point, I enjoy the works of China Mieville despi

I'm replying to this, and risking becoming part of the "HN is turning into Reddit" problem but you raise a fair point, I enjoy the works of China Mieville despite not sharing his beliefs. I wonder if it's perhaps the requirement that I actively engage in activities that I would ideologically object to in reality, for the sake of someone else's narrative, but that also seems spurious as I have no real issue with participating in the mass-murders of titles like Grand Theft Auto...DE just rubbed me the wrong way, even if some of the mechanisms were intriguing, maybe it's the smugness oozing from it which again brings us back to Mieville. I guess I just didn't like DE and I have trouble reconciling that with the expectation that I would like it...because it very much seems like something I would like.