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utilitycaster · 6 months ago

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one more thing (started to put this on the previous post but realized it applies to CR too) but between CR and D20 discourse, why are so many people surprised when US-based actual play shows are coming out with the message of "being angry and resentful and using your pain as an excuse makes you prone to radicalization into a violent cult with little regard for the lives of others, and that is not good of you" and what does it say about them that they keep trying to argue against this.

#what if being easily manipulated by malicious actors is in fact. really bad. not ontologically but like a pretty serious personal flaw.#like that was literally what happened with Ashton and what's actively happening with Laudna #and what happened to the rat grinders and vanguard #the reason ashton gets treated more kindly is that they compressed this into a single minute followed by immediate realization #and mostly hurt themself #like. i actually was exposed to the concept of deprogramming quite young and. it's gotta come from within first #and then you provide people with support. but you can't uproot it from the outside.#cr spoilers #by vague allusion

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