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People compare “believing in God” to “believing in science,” but ultimately, you shouldn’t believe in science. You should use a scientific model until you find something better. Is dark energy real? Is dark energy fake? Mu. Dark energy is the most plausible model we currently have of what’s real, and it may or may not stay around.

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On another site, I saw someone post that older Ace Attorney “hasnae aged well.” Maybe I’m forgetting something, but I feel like newer Ace Attorney hasn’t aged well, because it has content that’s capable of not aging well. Older Ace Attorney didn’t have many minority characters to begin with.

(Apparently people were offended by Lotta Hart? I don’t have the necessary cultural context to comment on whatever’s happening there.)

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This might actually be the worst of my analogies.

So when people talk about indigenous wisdom or whatever, I’m like … Okay, maybe someone ten thousand years ago came up with a really good farming technique. That person died ten thousand years ago. Someone now can learn that technique from ten thousand years of unbroken tradition, or they can learn that technique because someone wrote it down in a book, but the point is that they learn it. It seems arbitrary to say that some of the people learning it now are a separate group from other people learning it now.

Someday, you are going to die, and if you have kids, those kids will replace you. If you have kids with a woman who’s considered ethnically Jewish, then sure, a Jew will replace you. But it seems arbitrary to act like Jews will be somehow different from all the other people replacing you. None of them will be like you, and all of them will have different beliefs and values from you. So it feels like the “indigenous wisdom” people and the “Jews will not replace us” people are making the same error of logic.

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Looking through old Arknights lore. In Fungimist, there were four “cursed” items: one for the Seaborn, one for the Witch-King, one for the frost monsters in the north, and then something called “Demonblood” that’s made from “the essence of a certain bloodline” and makes people homicidally violent when they smell it. If it’s linked to a threat on par with the Seaborn, then what even is that threat?

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My real problem with Triangle Strategy is that it feels like the earlier you recruit characters, the more you’re punished for it. Just a couple levels under par makes a mission significantly harder, and the more characters you have, the more you have to grind repetitive side missions in order to level them enough for the main missions. If you recruit characters later, they start at a higher level, so you can save yourself the trouble.