If I had a penny for every slur I've seen since I started playing multiplayer games I'd be able to make a life-size copper and zinc replica of the Sun. If I had a dollar for every slur I've seen in the past two weeks I'd be richer than Bezos.
Honestly fuck gamers. Little weasels make my fucking blood boil.
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honestly as time has worn on i've grown far less tolerant of certain habits ol' george is known for. i still enjoy the thickly plotted interwoven parts, but gruesome doesn't really do it for me much anymore, unless it's happening to deserving targets (and part of the conceit, more or less, is that it very rarely, if ever, is)
we are 100% on the same page with dune, it was the first full-length novel i ever read and to this day i still recommend it as being hella worthwhile, despite some of the absolutely wack shit in it (poor chani) and herbert's eventual conservative bent
honestly despite how easy it is to do, i'd try hard not to take it to heart. people can get weird about all sorts of bizarre shit, and who knows, maybe they were having a shit day irl and decided to take it out during your discussion (not that that makes it more acceptable, mind)
hell, maybe they were even lying about not having read it as an attempt to sidestep the accusation of being "upset that the thing they like is being critiqued" :shrug-outta-hecks: you never know!
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i honestly believe that's (at least in part) often an attempt to adopt the posture of "hmph, i don't have a horse in this race"
that sort of detached only being logical, bro attitude that people think makes their argument unimpeachable
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not too far off, and presumably coming more from a place of being offended than like, malicious hatred
but if you let one drive you to the other... :shrug-outta-hecks: it's hardly any better (or different) at that point