Every sufficiently ignorant person is evil and everybody should be terrified of reaching that point. You gotta understand this completely. It's the only way to find the types of ignorant you can be without being evil.

Or, for instance, if you give that guy the opportunity to vote on the implementation of the "Put Lead In Baby Formula Act".

If your childless coworker thinks feeding lead to kids helps them grow up healthy but otherwise hasn't hurt anyone you might be inclined to say "Yeah he's stupid but he's not evil. But if that same guy chooses to have a kid I think what would happen after that would erase doubt.

That last part is rhetorical. The people making the "we'll get through this" posts are making 6 figures at their fake tech jobs and the working class are finally settling on which model of revolver they'll buy to off themselves for cheap.

And now on the cross-post I notice the "when when" at the end there. All the more embarrassing that I went into a such a self-serious tone haha.

Don't bother looking back to see what created the present that led to your interest and involvement. Time distorts as the velocity mounts. You think your present is already the future and it'll be all the more disorienting when when you find out it can be the past.

That + the growth of the market (not the community, the market) has led it down the same path as every other medium. Self-imposed siloing of everybody's historyless experiences. The enemy is the past. You have to kill it to move forward. Don't ---

And I think that has the most to do with the time right when I got into them being the moment before widespread internet hostility, hyper-accelerated by the social media explosion, became the trend. That, plus ---

Now, partially because appreciation of fighting games is more mainstream, you see soooo many younger people getting into a game and thinking it's cringe to look back at the older scenes, even ones in the same series they play! And ---