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  • You think you intentionally made it annoying to read, but you accidentally made it really fun to read.

    "More unleserlich." :3

  • ::: spoilers Pluribus season 1 That's part of it, yes. It starts when he steals the ambulance, which Carol later points out is hypocritical of him. He realizes she's right and consciously decides to start making compromises like allowing her cellphone and exploiting collective resources as a means of discovering how to save humanity. It's a dramatic change from his earlier stance, like how he leaves money in exchange for stolen gas, and it's executed very well. I don't think his unwillingness to sin would have gotten him far in his goals, but the defeat of his resolution is still tragic. :::

  • ::: spoilers Pluribus season 1 Nah, he did. But the writers and characters are aware of that. His eventual willingness to compromise his values for the greater good is very on-topic for the themes of the series. :::

  • Mirror-versions/rotations of letters is a terribly ableist way of designing a writing system.

  • Why bother yourself with "color" or "colour" when you could choose the Anglish hue?

  • If you have a problem with unfinished works, don't ingest them until they're finished. The artist doesn't owe you anything.

  • The placebo effect would like a word.

  • I'm not really sure what compelled me to read this; I guess I wanted to see the quality of what won the contest.

    So an office lady dies of over-work and gets reincarnated with magical organization skills which she's called on to use in aid of the nation. I was kind of hoping this would go the cozy route of her organizing a healthy society with education and healthcare and all that, but she just immediately starts doing accounting work for the emperor, exposing embezzlement schemes. What a fucking tool. As if the entire aristocracy isn't designed to extort the peasant class.

    I quit reading after that. It felt like what you'd expect to get if you fed a program heaps of fanfics and asked it to output the average of them.

  • Yeah, I started considering that a while after I made the post. Like if it's a 2meirl kind of thing then I guess it can be funny and concerning at the same time because we're all going through some shit together.

  • Oh, I thought it was like a satire thing. It's not really funny if she's actually going through some shit.

  • For some people an escape from the world is cute squirrel who can't remember where they buried all their treasures. Others will cry that the squirrel is unnecessarily political because they don't use he or she pronouns.

  • What's-her-face being gay is like the least political thing about Pluribus.

  • Children's stories have tons of politics. They're almost always intentionally pushing a message of some kind, like "Be nice to ugly people because they might turn out to be really hot and/or magical later."

  • Pong is competitive rather than cooperative, and I find that very meaningful.

  • I'm not super familiar with either the game or Japanese history, but I found this:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onna-musha

    It seems that women were regarded more equally prior to confucianism.

    The page for the game says:

    Jin's samurai armor and katana are not historically accurate, with his armor based on that of the Sengoku period during the 16th and 17th centuries. According to Chris Zimmerman, one of Sucker Punch's cofounders, samurai armor from the 13th century was "jarring looking" and did not align with players' expectations of what samurai armor would look like.

    Totally-not-samurai-looking armor:

  • Your language choices give a phobic vibe, just FYI. "[...] they feel like the real world doesn't appreciate their valiant efforts towards weaponized inclusivity enough." Like you know they're suffering actual IRL oppression, right? Stuff like that could be giving LGBT players the impression that you're hostile towards them.

  • I mean the statement is being made within the universe. Super Mario does advocate for violence against koopas. You don't have to examine it, but that doesn't make it apolitical.

  • That doesn't make any sense. If they already have rights then what are they arguing for?

  • How come gay people don't already have rights in your setting?