Sidetrack: I loved it so much I bought a preorder for Spore: Galactic Adventures, yet my attention span hadn’t grown enough and I forgot to ever redeem it 😔

Man I loved Spore!! Some of the later parts are not as detailed as I’d hope for, but the space segment nearly makes up for it!! Never fully finished space though as a kid… Need to go back and finally do it haha.

Because we’re too busy categorizing this stupid shit into bins of “good” and “bad” when reality is a greyscale between these two. These are fairly reasonable points and should be viewed as a more centrist POV, but since we (read: primarily North America) have a tribal “us vs. them” animosity about it we lump many reasonable ideas together on each end of the spectrum. Things like not having to go bankrupt when you or a loved one needs an emergency hospital visit somehow automatically gets lumped in with the other extreme “socialist” ideas just to solely argue against it and not budge from their end of the extreme.