Or it is just an extremely common retro style motif dating to the 70s/80s, color coordinated with the base device color schemes, with no particular intended political meaning whatsoever.

Occam’s razor is a useful blade.

This is the most accurate description of anything that’s ever been written.

You are correct about the release year. If one were being pedantic I suppose it would be correct to say that thanks to multiplayer and mods, Half-Life was a popular PC game/engine all throughout the early 2000s. Come to think of it, there are probably still people playing CS 1.6 today.

This was amazing. I remember having LAN parties first with UT99 then with Counter-strike and UT2K4.

Those LANs were peak gaming for me.

Kinda makes sense. The costs must be staggering to develop new proprietary graphics chips that can outperform current gen PCs and still hit the low(ish) price targets. They then have to basically sell every unit at a loss and hope to make it back with game sales. This has worked out for Nintendo’s model since they have thrived on (relatively) cheap and underpowered hardware, and a bevy of exclusive titles that they continue to sell for full price even years after release. Its harder from the angle Microsoft was taking. They were able to create a few decent exclusives but it seems like most of their titles were crossplatform or became that way over time. I was playing Halo Infinite on my SteamDeck. Haven’t owned an Xbox since the first one.

The implication that there is or has ever been a monolithic “white culture” is idiotic. It is one of those assertions where the left and right horseshoe towards falsehood and depravity. That is to say both the Klan and extreme progressives agree there is a magic all encompassing definition of “whiteness”.

This concept itself is racist because it assumes Ashkenazi Jewish, Nordic, Russian, and Irish cultures are identical in some way, when they obviously aren’t. “The shared amount of relative pigmentation in skin” doesn’t culturally unite people, nor does it account for their shared values and traditions, or lack thereof.