Sometimes I just need a shot of conflict in my life and nothing stirs it up like going on reddit and mildly critiquing the lore or text of any game ever made.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    A lot of people can't handle the idea that they enjoy something with actually problematic parts to it. It may be shades of Main Character Syndrome where it's seen as a personal attack, or a threat, if some entertainment product is criticized, as if it might be taken away or its consumer condemned for it.

    Dune is my favorite novel series of all time and it's got some gross gender essentialist bullshit in it, some clumsy Orientalism regarding exotic Zensunni culture :us-foreign-policy: , and while it has a message of "messiahs are a bad thing, actually" as a throughline, clearly many of its readers and audience members failed to receive that message and stan for the Atreides. :doomer:

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yes.

        I, the joyless scold, the supreme magistrate of the Bolshevik Kangaroo Court, allow you to like bad things. :stalin-approval:

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            But not Courier 6, they KNOW what they did.

            It was all rigged from the start. :stalin-gun-1: :stalin-gun-2: