i do cringe a little every time i accidentally become aware of how many people are consuming it without knowing it's bad for them though
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Replying to @chaosprime @palecur
I guess? I mean, god knows I read through a shit ton of Ed Greenwood and Bob Salvatore pulp crap as a kid but I don't think it was "bad for me". It didn't prevent me from reading actually good books later. Cultivated the pleasure of reading so I would actually do that.
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Replying to @danlistensto @palecur
i mean i ain't got no high horse or nothin', i've read plenty of Greenwood and Salvatore but even more Piers Anthony. there's a cornpone thread in these kinds of things that i do think fucks people up if they become dependent on it, though, like that's how you get Comicsgate ppl
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Replying to @chaosprime @palecur
I don't follow. Reading a book as a kid will make you into an uncharitable reader as an adult with political grievances and an ax to grind on Facebook or something? hwat?
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
I think more of a thing where a reading diet consisting solely of D&D tie-ins constrains intellectual development and leaves one open to regarding challenges to that universe as attacks on one's own identity. Which is the core of goobergrape.
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Replying to @palecur @chaosprime
well that's a pretty sad outcome. hard to reason about counterfactuals, but if you're talking about a person with that degree of incuriosity and ego fragility, it's not the pulp fantasy novels that's fucking up their emotional and intellectual development.
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
I'd agree it's a proximate, not a root, cause, but *gestures broadly all around* these folk ain't in short supply.
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Replying to @palecur @chaosprime
I really think the bigger problem is just that these people aren't correctly ignored and are now plugged in to the grievance-industrial complex like everyone else in the god damn world. there's always shitty people who won't shut up with their tedious complaints. just ignore.
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it's like it *wants* to break our shiny abstractions
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