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Joseph Hartman (he/they) - Writer of upcoming fantasy novel Dragon Descent, and developer of soulslike RPG Deadbeat!
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Simply put, they want to go back to sleep in their cradles, with the curtains pulled shut.
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The worst part isn't just that most people who want this aren't conscious of it; it's that this entire scheme is about *letting* them not be conscious of it.
It's such a *stressful* topic to them, they want to not have to think about it, ever. They want to be coddled and have that be 'normal'.
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I love the dragon vibes of this and your other posts, and also I am reminded by this post specifically of this lovely animation :D
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Cruelty and apathy is not the default.
It is not something that you simply return to after you stop sucking in your gut. It is an active choice.
Keep note of any company or institution that makes that choice, and never let them back in. Never give them your trust or the benefit of the doubt.
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We’ve never done the hardest work, and as long as we don’t do that, the pieces of fascism stay in place, ready to be picked up by the next person who wants to destroy the country.
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The Avatar cycle not being great for stability is true... but also unavoidable, cause it's reliant on the rules of reincarnation for this world, and no one involved is at a power scope necessary to change that.
There is no god, in that sense, just powerful spirits that are still beholden to nature.
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She seemed more concerned with directly enforcing a vague sense of 'cosmic balance' than actually doing anything to better the world, until she fused with the Avatar.
I kinda like how ad hoc it all is :y They're doing the best they can with what their setup lets them do, and no one is all-powerful.
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I think it works under the lens of no one involved being presented as something flawless or perfectly good. Even the 'spirit of goodness and order' that possesses was introduced as a tunnel-vision'd jerk whose lack of communication directly led to problems.
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Tokusatsu has long-since achieved and perpetuated something that Hollywood only barely glimpses in its brightest dreams: the sheer power of taking the colorful and silly thing seriously.
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Ah, bizarre :y Maybe I'll check it out at some point!
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To clarify, do you mean this website? I'm interested in trying out alternate forms of doing game design, but I see 'AI' and immediately shy away from using any part of this for serious work.
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I want to see characters that are just as aggressive about doing the right thing as villains are about their schemes, and as typical superheroes are about protecting the status quo.
Current protagonists tend not to have principles so much as vague opposition to a villain’s troublemaking.
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Oh yeah, 100%, that's just an obvious example to point to.
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This shit needs to be ripped up by the roots. It's not inevitable, people are just letting it be.
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It's all the same thing, continuously, like a strain of mold that we keep failing to kill properly because the people in power are too *nice* about it.
Imagine what the US would be like if the North defeated the Confederacy and THEN made damn sure they didn't continue their shittiness.
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Just saw this much more concise version on IG
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Congratulations! :D
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The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.
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And the funniest/most awful thing? The exact thing that's keeping them down is the *exact* thing they fantasize over. They *want* to be an ultra-rich person untethered by the law, gleefully imposing their will on others.
They can't oppose bring themselves to oppose it. It'd be too uncomfortable.
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Huh! I was unaware of this extended terminology. To be clear I was thinking of it in the 'so decidedly self-centered that other people aren't even people to you' sort of way, rather than anything beyond their control.
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There's an episode of a horror podcast I like where someone starts thinking like this, and then they start to perceive everyone around them as horrifying philosophical zombies made of paper mache forever.
I wish no less of a fate on such behavioral solipsists.
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For people like this? In a fight between doing what's right and preserving their personal comfort, comfort will always win. Their faith is not a moral guideline, but something they twist to serve themselves and bludgeon others with.
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People need to call it what it is: whining babies being upset that they have to keep learning new things about the world to continue functioning in it.
They want to go back to childhood, where they were coddled and sheltered by authority. But they can't, so they make it everyone else's problem.
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This baffles me so much.
They're saying this country's piss-poor lip service to the rights of historically oppressed people is 'too much'? We haven't even crossed the starting line and they're already saying 'man, this marathon was exhausting'.
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The idea that the billionaires NEED a distraction is galling, considering how brazenly they're plundering the country. The only people unaware of it are the braindead conservatives indulging in their cruelty.
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100%. The average conservative has literally *no idea* about any sort of economics, and the 'culture war' (really just them having a constant tantrum about aggressively not understanding the world and trying to play pretend that it doesn't exist so hard that it goes away) is all they care about.
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For comparison's sake, is there data on the frequency of crashes before Trump fucked everything up? Just to pre-empt people saying 'ohhhh this is just noooormal'.
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Deadbeat is a fast-paced isometric soulslike set in a weird afterlife!
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People need an unending drive towards goodness. Unfortunately, the DNC instead developed an unending drive towards civility, assuming them to be the same thing.
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And it's infuriating because what they think they're 'revolting' against is 'sometimes you see non-white/gay people in movies sometimes, and *very seldom*, trans people too.'
They don't have Concept Permanence, they think the fact that they have to acknowledge these people exist is oppression.