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I just figured out the words to explain why I hate Story of Your Life so much. It’s a micro-scale Prime Directive! Instead of allowing societies to suffer because interfering is bad somehow, it’s about allowing individuals to suffer because interfering is bad somehow.

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I’ve posted about this multiple times already, but I keep coming back to that one mutual who says there’s no difference between magic and science you don’t understand. I think this is the worst take a person is capable of having, and whether or not a take is capable of being “good” or “bad” depends on whether or not it’s downstream of this take.

The real question, the one this take is a distraction from, isn’t “do you know the truth?” It’s “if I tell you the truth, will you kill me for it?”

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Some folks: avoid the low-hanging fruit.

Me: does your fruit hang low, can you swing it to and fro . . .

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A list of enemies in Hollow Knight that are just “thing horrifically puppeteering another thing”:

Glowing orange goop that turns you into a zombie and has a combined will of its own.

Monster that uses your corpse as a puppet to lure in others and kill them as well.

Parasites that make your dead body walk around, but if your body gets too damaged, spider legs sprout out and start skittering around.

Bees that make you into a still-living beehive who can’t even understand what’s been done to you.

Honorable mention: the mimics aren’t actually puppeteering the harmless little grubs. They just shapeshift to look like the grubs, then deform and attack you when you get too close.

There are multiple reasons the MC of Hollow Knight has a stare like a World War I veteran.