The non ideological crown doesn’t exist.

I’m not the first day in this, which is why I’ve put it in scare quotes. And I think exposing unwitting apathetic liberals to tankies is bad. Not platforming fascists is good, defederating from far-right and tankie instances empowers the left.

The modern leftist discourse is full of anti-Western sentiment. Which is good and deserved, but this also means there’s a larger susceptibility towards fascist propaganda, when this propaganda is directed against the hegemon. In addition to that, the thalassocratic nature of the American empire makes most leftist much less heuristically equipped to tackle issues of differently structured empires. These factors bolster development of tankie sentiment, ranging from genuine leftists supporting fascism to genuine fascists who love left-sounding rhetoric.

So if you’re coddling fascists in your community, don’t cry suppression when anti-fascists stop associating with you as well. You can just drop the community which engages in this and move elsewhere. If you’re still okay with that, then other people’s concerns about you were justified.

The same way as with tolerating open fascists, just letting them be around as long as they’re “nice” will give them ample opportunity to spread their propaganda in a more covert way. Some things will look innocuous enough and won’t be cleaned up, other will create drama on being moderated, so the mods might have harder time deciding. This won’t break their echo chamber, as such things existed even in the ever-open reddit. Just cut them off, it will be better both for the communists around, and for the “non-ideological” crowd.

If you want some short story experience, definitely check out In Other Waters. It was made by the author of Citizen Sleeper. It is smaller in its scope and less replayable, but still very nice.

UPD: Not short stories, but story-rich games with time limit and replayability: provided you haven’t played them, you should definitely try Pathologic 2 and Disco Elysium

Ultima Ratio Regum is an interesting thing. It’s more of a culture generation experiment than a complete game. It procedurally generates detailed designs for basically every item around you, which will vary depending on which part of the world you are, whether this place is rich or poor, etc. For many things it generates a close-up image, in what can basically be called ASCII+ art (images which still use traditional roguelike console-like engine, but are drawn with colored rectangles and triangles, so it’s not literally ASCII)