They're boorish surface level fans of things that often miss the contextual point and twist what little they do understand into pretzel knots to fit their ideology.
After all, "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" did just that. Its author, Big Yud, admitted he only saw the movies and didn't even bother with the books and ultimately that didn't matter either way because he surgically removed everything about Harry Potter's personality and stuffed himself into the role, making the wishy-washy liberal magic cop in the making into a cryptofascist psychopath instead.
i like how he references game of thrones in his title :so-true:
They're boorish surface level fans of things that often miss the contextual point and twist what little they do understand into pretzel knots to fit their ideology.
After all, "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" did just that. Its author, Big Yud, admitted he only saw the movies and didn't even bother with the books and ultimately that didn't matter either way because he surgically removed everything about Harry Potter's personality and stuffed himself into the role, making the wishy-washy liberal magic cop in the making into a cryptofascist psychopath instead.
I liked the part about decapitating fascists.