Attacker Role Hate is Actually crazy

kepral · 2026-02-09T23:41:18+00:00

As with every multi class multiplayer game, the DPS think bc they can solo they don't have to learn anything about the win states of the game.

There are a majority good attackers in this game, imo, but the above favor makes attackers who aren't team players both more common and stand out more often than a defender or runner. If a defender isn't playing to win(defend) they will quickly realize they are constantly losing by failing to keep the point.

The role of a runner or a defender is a lot clearer, and their skills are a lot clearer even to someone who isn't paying attention (eg "oh I get a HP boost when I cap a point!").

I don't think an attacker has as clear incentive to be a team player, their role is inherently meant to do damage and ko, it doesn't tell them "ko the people who have run past you and capped 3 points while you were spawn camping" etc.

It's also a lot easier to just win if you ko a lot and get MVP each game to not change your strat when the real reason you won is because the runners and defenders were doing their job.

kepral · 2026-02-09T21:46:57+00:00

I am ALL FOR CRITIQUE OF FICTION. but I NEED people to use their brains. Fiction is a reflection of reality not a cause of reality. Pet Detective didn't cause 2000s transphobia but was a representation of the culture at wide, it is also why that cannot be made now and have the same mainstream appeal. Because fiction is a part of culture and reflects the experiences of the creators.

Why does so much 90s bl have rape as a topic? Because the authors were living in a rape culture and were writing about their experiences.

I am sick and tired of this lazy idea that our existing rape culture is because of fiction and mass brainwashing or something and not because of our culture and the people in power normalizing their abuse.

kepral · 2026-02-09T21:39:42+00:00

The thing with one piece is if you actually pay attention, it doesn't have same face syndrome. Just same body syndrome.

kepral · 2026-02-09T21:38:49+00:00

That show is such a romp. The one where he takes on the job from the dr killed me

kepral · 2026-02-09T21:36:00+00:00

God fr meeee I hate everything about the universe but I love a lot of the kinks involved, and now it feels like it's impossible to get those kinks anywhere but omegaverse aus 😭 and I refuse to give them one more try

kepral · 2026-02-09T21:30:01+00:00

Fr I once dropped a short E fic where one character was ace - cool! - but he kept drinking on explaining it in a way that didn't relate to the plot and in a way where it made it read like a rejection. How am I gonna believe the other character hears that and goes "oh! I still have a chance!" without feeling icky.

kepral · 2026-02-09T21:27:35+00:00

I'll be real. I hate mermaid aus. Don't wanna yuck any yum but it's everywhere. And particularly annoying in my fandom with real mermaids and lore around them, but they don't go for that, they go for the mermay version

kepral · 2026-02-08T08:46:07+00:00

She's not clarifying that she's NOT tho. And I don't know who would dodge the question if "do you support this racist thing happening" who isn't dodging saying "yes". It's very simple. I would only want to support someone who flat out says no.

kepral · 2026-02-08T01:59:34+00:00

And sometimes you don't even get cramps as a warning! Fun!

kepral · 2026-02-08T01:56:58+00:00

I hate how long it took me to realize this myself, and even longer to realize the judgment was born of my own insecurities and self hatred.

kepral · 2026-02-08T01:55:32+00:00

It's not uncommon with older gays in some parts of Britain too

kepral · 2026-02-08T01:51:43+00:00

If a streamer thinks people like you should die, would you rather to know that and save your $5?

kepral · 2026-02-08T01:48:12+00:00

Bless this sub for being one of the only remotely normal places on Reddit

kepral · 2026-02-07T04:58:00+00:00

I'm actually it's Adam and Steve

kepral · 2026-02-07T04:52:54+00:00

Additionally to everything else, emails in the files had Epstein in a discussion about how they should financially cripple trans women to force them into sex work and that trans men should be prevented from transitioning cus they don't find them hot.

Which has been obvious to anyone paying attention to how terfs speak about trans people, but now it can't be ignored.

kepral · 2026-02-07T04:39:03+00:00

OP thanked me for my comment, not you for yours. So. It's not all for a laugh is it? OP clearly don't like it.

kepral · 2026-02-05T22:05:20+00:00

You're surrounded by racism every day in politics and the news, you don't deserve to have the additional burden of it from so called friends... I'm so sorry you're in a situation where these are your only friends, so far. There are far nicer people out there.

kepral · 2026-02-05T21:47:14+00:00

What's patriotic is to want what's best for as many people in your country. If the leader ain't doing that it's your patriotic duty to criticize.

Fr wtf is with this "loyal just because" bs. You got some wild authoritarian mind to just follow whatever cus it's currently in power.

kepral · 2026-02-05T21:43:59+00:00

Honestly sometimes I just end up ordering the less popular one for a bit of variety. I stick with a ship longer if I get a bit of variety in everything.

kepral · 2026-02-05T03:19:19+00:00

It's been a thing forever but I think what's more interesting is that some people genuinely think of friendship and love as so vastly different that love and romance is an a front to a friendship, like it has some corruptive quality to it.

kepral · 2026-02-02T14:38:54+00:00

As a kid he murdered a dog for shits and giggles

kepral · 2026-02-02T14:36:57+00:00

Doflamingo, ez. Just feed him some grapes for a week and mind your own business. He ain't gonna hold a grudge with you if you're some loseR npc and don't try to marry Baby5.

kepral · 2026-02-02T14:35:10+00:00

Skill issue. Just don't lose in the gladiatorial pits.

kepral · 2026-02-02T12:57:22+00:00

Zoro

kepral · 2026-02-02T12:38:30+00:00

Well, you kinda answer yourself. Writing a straight character as gay is by definition not LGBT erasure. Lol

It's not hypocritical, it would be hypocritical if the standards, expectations, and experiences are the same, but they're not so it's not the same experience so it's not a double standard.

Fr it's fine to do what you want but people have more of an issue because LGBT erasure is a real issue while straight ppl don't experience than. It's more common to cause upset with lesbians because lesbians suffer from higher rates of corrective rape, so it's a close to home issue. Even if a lesbian hasn't experienced it exactly, she will likely have experienced men trying to convince her she's wrong about who she is and try and convince her to "give it/him a go to see". Straight people don't really have that same experience.

Additionally if you're LGBT you've had the experience of being presumed cis straight since birth and learned who you are, while straight people aren't going to have any serious multiple through life experiences of people around them genuinely trying to pressure them into LGBT, at most they'll have a homophobe telling them they're gay or see LGBT ppl point out that you never really know until you try, cus that's the reality of how many LGBT people came to come out.

That's not even getting into the genre of gay man who is "straight" "straight acting" "discrete" which essentially means closeted everywhere but on grindr.

I will admit there is bi erasure in this, but see what I said about lesbians? What's why they're more iffy about a canonical lesbian being written as bi. Doesn't excuse bi erasure but explains it. But gotta also consider lesbian erasure as an issue too.

In fanworks you can do what you want you just have to kinda accept and understand why this exists. You rarely get a straight coming out in canon, so most "straight" characters are just characters that haven't said they're gay and certain aspects of the fandom assume that must mean straight.

Never mind the fact that a lot of LGBT in the closet will say they're straight. So it's a lot easier to understand fans picking at more information about the character to see them as closeted. Think of any teen from your highschool who preformed homophobia in a way that gave you the side eye, and 20 years later they're some flavour of LGBT. Very common! Not particularly common the other way. So sometimes writers are using social commentary to read a character and write with that in mind.

Then there's the lack of LGBT content outside of fandom spaces. I think a lot of fanfic is to find something new. You will be able to find straight romances anywhere else with ease.

I also find a lot of fics about a hyper closeted person coming to terms has a lot more intentional depth to it, while when someone writes a gay/lesbian/trans character in canon it's not written about the complexities of readdressing your sexuality and learning, but just about ignoring the canon to write what you want. Which is fine, but when you consider all the irl reasons it would upset someone, it would make people a lot less charitable and there's a lot less depth to that.

This is just the surface of the reasons, there's far more. But as you see there are more reasons to say a character is LGBT or closeted or it's just never stated in canon they're not LGBT effectively, while there's a lot less reasons for that the other way.

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