The argument was terribly explained but it has a point. Half life was revolutionary in that you played the opening cutscene. It wasn't the first shooter with a story that is more complex than "shoot enemy" but it was the first to tell a complex story (mostly) through gameplay. Properly using the medium is part of the art of making video games.

Yes, it means that something has a bad aftertaste. Here, a joke about cyberpunk reeks of GCJ (a toxic anti-nerd subreddit that hides behind a pro-lgbtq mask).

I always think I have no games in my steam library that I didn't play. Then I remember than a relative once gifted me "From Dust" because I am a huge fan of Popolous.

I don't want a uplay account so I haven't played it yet. Sometimes I want to but that urge never outgrows my hatred for the idea of needing an account everywhere.

> For instance, for indigenous peoples in island nations across the south east asian archipelago, are they all different 'races'?

If they developed cultural differences, yes. The biological concept of 'race' really isn't applicable to humans, so the modern understanding is that a distinct cultural heritage can suffice to be considered a distinct ethnicity.

The situation in Africa is pretty much the same: there are hundreds of different 'indigenous' ethnicites. 'Indigenous' obviously isn't an ethnicity but it describes one without naming it. There is also a history of ethnic violence between those groups going on to this day.

'Indigenous' is an ethnic background, that is specifically what is colloqually refered to as "race" if (and only if) you are not a racist.

For actual old-school racists who adhere to the long disproven "race theory", 'indigenous to brazil' is not a race.