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Final Fantasy XIV showed me the appeal of the tank character, and the funny part is I feel like some game could do this a lot better than FFXIV did. The tank calls out “All eyes on me!” Your job is to be such an attention-grabbing nuisance that no enemy can look away long enough to attack anyone else, flitting from target to target as each begins to lose focus on you. (Except not really, because AoE in FFXIV is pretty big, but it’s the ideal.) You’re the star of the show and the belle of the ball, and no party of squishies could survive without you.

As long as you have a healer, of course.

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I think proship takes fit with a wider variety of political alignments than antiship takes. E.g. you can go “incest should be illegal” and still not want to ban fiction about incest, but if you go “fiction about incest should be illegal,” you probably insist on laws against IRL incest.

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While we’re talking about things that might or might not be true: a common suicidal fantasy is “after I kill myself, all the people who hurt me will feel sorry!” A common rejoinder is “they won’t give a shit that you’re gone, so killing yourself won’t achieve anything.” But will they give a shit that you’re gone? This seems like something with an objective answer, at least in individual cases.

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Each morning, my headache is almost gone, and then the sound of the roof repairs brings it right back.

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Hmm . . . That one person talked about trans women being stereotyped as tops, and that other person talked about trans women being stereotyped as bottoms. I think both of these exist at the same time, but I’m not sure how. Are there separate groups of bigots?