Just another face in the crowd… I hope. He/him or whatever. I have the luxury of not having to be fussed.
Selfishness is coded into us by evolution. It’s genetic. Lots of people will agree with me on this.
What I get a lot of pushback on, is that selflessness is the same. It has evolutionary benefits for a familial group, and so gets selected for.
I loved the “anyone can be special” message, even when rammed down our throat by having the slave stable boy force pull the broom to himself at the end of the movie.
I hated them undoing that and going “hahahaha, no, you’re actually one of the two special families!!” in Rise of Skywalker.
I quite enjoy the Baroque Cycle. I am yet to read Snowcrash.
I was in a group that were all “officers of the watch”. Some idea was proposed that my character would have no reason to go along with, but rather than stop the group engaging in something fun, I say so, and follow up with “my character probably has some paperwork they need to catch up on anyway.”
Our chaotic player, who has the attention span of a slightly concussed goldfish goes “wait, we have to do paperwork?” and our GM, the goddamned sadist, gets that evil gleam in his eye.
Long story short, that session we role-played the sheer amount of paperwork our last session of kicking in the door and stopping a cultist ritual (by force in some cases) would have generated.
I admire that GM, but I was almost screaming in frustration by the end.
“Wait… All of these hobgoblins have javelins!? This is a market opportunity!”
If only there was some kind of legislation that protected an open and fair internet…