It took me a long time before I signed up. I think I lucked for at least a year. I didn't want to join an instance and then regret it. And all instances have their own small novel of rules, that I need to read through to know if I agree with. And even if you do, you have to send an application and get approved as well.

It almost scared me away - I'd imagine the same goes for a lot of people.

The majority of those people agree that it was bad - they just don't think it's the same. And they will never think so, unless they're literally waving nazi flags and heil.

It's been branded as such a great evil that nothing can ever compare.

The rule 34 of nerds - if it exists, there's an xkcd for it

Yeah, it's odd. I honestly doubt it works.

That's just the signature creating some false keming I think

Eco, as you mentioned, is very much like what you describe, but it's not a shooter if that's a requirement to you. It's not much like Minecraft, I'd say the only real thing they have in common is that things are in blocks. Other than that it's wildly different games.

If you can find a good server or you have a bunch of friends who also want to play like this, you can get a very fun experience. But you need to all be into it and playing for the social aspects of the game.

It might be tiny, but it smells like a big one

Not sure how much it helps, cause now we also avoid American wine in Europe. Probably even more so in Canada.

It's more comparable to say "let's ban products from stores" instead of saying a specific product or ingredient.

An algorithm is just "if this then that", which is impossible to write software without (not assuming you don't know, just for anyone else reading).

Bratty?