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The researchers behind that “my primals” test seem like they have some weird primals. They looked at beliefs like “the world is safe,” and then they went from there to things like “how do you change your view of how safe the world is to one that gets you better outcomes?” Personally, I’d want to change my view of how safe the world is to one that reflects how safe the world is! If there are people who are freezing to death because of lack of shelter, and I think the world is a safe place where people don’t freeze to death, that means I’m not gonna vote for policies that would get more people housing. That seems like a much bigger issue than whether my views make me, a single person, more or less likely to die.

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Whyyyy are writers still doing the “mental illness makes you a murderous subhuman monster” trope?

(If I rage about Primal, is it Primal Rage?)

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I’m not sure what writer at Spike Chunsoft is responsible for the running themes across Danganronpa and Zanki Zero, but it feels like they read Atlas Shrugged, agreed with Ayn Rand’s ideas about the way the world does work, but disagreed that it should work this way and found it existentially horrifying. Nagito Komaeda feels like a grotesque parody of people who accept Rand’s worldview and think it’s a good thing. He believes that the other students are like John Galt, but that he himself isn’t, and that this makes him “trash” fit only to be used and degraded by the worthy.

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A Spy x Family thought: the traditional way to deal with Yuri and Fiona would be to have them fall in love with each other. I’m not sure which of them I would pity more in that situation, but the worst off would definitely be their hypothetical future kids. We’ve already seen how awful mom Fiona would be; can you imagine dad Yuri on top of that?