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thathopeyetlives:

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earlgraytay:

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elucubrare:

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it is possible that I\u2019m an asshole, but it is 2 0 1 7 and we\u2019re still doing books where the main conflict is \u201cmages/wizards/magic users are banned by an Oppressive Catholic Church analogue\u201d and i am tired of it\u00a0

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A) That\u2019s Dragon Age\u2019s schtick at this point, y\u2019all should stop copying them.

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B) this is making me want to do a\u00a0\u2018evil mages vs. Christian martyrs\u2019 thing just out of spite.

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[Catholic dives into conversation like a wounded osprey]

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A thing that I found even more irritating was Dishonored\u2019s\u00a0\u201cThere are horrible evil human-sacrificing magic users and an Oppressive Catholic Church Analogue that doesn\u2019t even, like, pray, or believe in God, or do anything other than oppress the evil human-sacrificing magic users with excessive violence and everything is horrible and there is no hope\u201d.\u00a0

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Missing link is JRPGs and the fact that Prussia/Germany used to be to Japan what America became

(“Sempai, help me understand the world! Also, I might seize your Pacific island holdings.”)

So the whole one-city kingdom/Chancellor edging in/Emperor taking over/corrupt demonic Church thing

GERMAN (PROT) AS HELL

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