I think skirples started up around when I dipped, so Im not sure Ive read the post, but I think there were a ton of reasons I and others trotted out "combat is a failure state" for ideological reasons and it isnt a very sturdy or honest argument.

Gobble gobble motherfucker

This is the epitome of class and grace

There is a distinctly "cringing at what the cool kids might think" component to a lot of online shit that is incredibly boring.

No one has suffered more than a father under the watchful eye of a kid who just learned how to wash their hands or pick up after themselves

It feels like you could just tweak a few things about the design and camera controls and re-release these to huge success.

We need a leader whose terrible dreams flood our minds at night and drive out all sense and reason but that which guides us to the final polling place, where he awaits.

We need a leader whose blasphemous fluting calms our monstrous tempers and soothes our swollen limbs.

They show you the cover art, the end papers art, the front edge painting. The inside could literally juat be bullet points and they'd have sold you what they pitched you!

The rapidity with which publishers/marketers clocked adding what amount to ao3 tags to this stuff is so funny. Like, not even a pretense of "what is this about?"