The strags of /r/DragonAge deleted a very dramatic thread and I CAN'T FIND IT, because I was browsing on another PC 
Anyways I'm turning this into a rant post.
You guys ever get tired of these /r/GaymingCircleJerk leftoid fricks who reiterate and regurgitate the constant mEDIA lITERACY talking point about how the in-universe of a media supports THEIR particular brand of modern contemporary PRESSENTISM views? 
You know the types - well over the past year since the Dragon Age FAILGUARD 
slapfights, a lot of liberal peeps have been denouncing the originator of the series (DA Origins 2009) to make Veilguard seem less shitty in retroactive comparison, especially in terms of writing and in-universe political lore.
And one constant r-sluration they continued to spout was that apparently that they could not figure of what precisely the game (DA Origins 2009) was trying to say in terms of it's political commentary.
An example is even way back when, when Zero Punctuation guy stated in his video from like 10 years ago, he could not grasp "wtf the game was trying to say politically"
as in all of these shitlibs could not comprehend what the political message was trying be!
Because in-universe for the ignorant, magic users (mages) live a double-edged life. Magic comes at a cost, basically mages are connected to an ethereal dream dimension called the Fade, from which they draw their power, and in-universe mages are very very powerful. But stupid or poorly disciplined or foolish mages can easily be possessed by entities from this dream dimension and lose their minds,
and basically become rogue school shooters with flamethrowers and rocket launchers attached to their arms, and completely devastate communities, causing mass shooting casaulties in the hundreds before being taken down by Dark Age police. Because of this, mages are feared and ostracized, and kidnapped when they show magic attunement during their adolescence, and forced to live their lives in these Wizard Tower prisons their whole lives. Except when the lord of the land conscripts their talents to flamethrower fantasy orc zombies every decade or so
Point is this grimdark gimmick, makes being a very power magic user in-universe, just as much of a massive bane as a boon, and the whole setting and its medieval in-universe morality and politics are shaped by this.
You as the player character can shape the world into adhering to this Wizard Tower Prison doctrine for the safety of the community or advocate for freedom and other boring shit for the school shooter mages.
But of course shitlibs are so neurodivergent, they are like: WHO IS THIS GAME REFERRING TO? The gays, the jews or the blacks? 
They are too foidbrained to realize that all of the fake fiction morality and politics are unique and explicitly not dependent upon real world events. They take inspiration from history, but create their own unique in-universe setting.
The amount of midwits and Medea Literacycels who endlessly type how confused they are about Elf ghettos and what the games are trying to say is funny.
It reminds me also of Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, and the 3hour philosophy Youtube videos and reddit sneeds about how the fake fictional in-universe factions and their unique moralities TOTALLY supports their modern contemporary commie beliefs.
It's ironic that they espouse the Media Literacy meme so much 
and then display their confusion at fictionalized factions and fake in-universe moralities and moral conflicts.
It's like they have something like Reverse-Media-Literacy-Illiteracy or whatever. Like they are incapable of interpreting new complex questions and moral conundrums posed to them (by vidya slop standards) by new unique settings which do not adhere to the secular religious doctrines of modern Presentism Shitlibery.
It's like they are like 
OMG WHO IS THE GOOD GUY AND BAD GUY whenever they are confronted with fantasy morality that isn't turbo wingcuck propaganda
"My PRESENTISM Youtube Philosophy Tuber hasn't spoken about how Crapitalism is evil about this shooter game yet! HOW am i supposed to know who to vie for!?"
As in they literally cannot comprehend fictional moral complexity OUTSIDE of the framework of their current contemporary modern day shitlib doctrines
I've fricking seen r-slurs be like "I don't understand what Ursula Leguin was saying in Left Hand of Darkness" cuz they cannot shoehorn their Presentism into the unique worldbuilding of a Novel written 60 years ago.
!bookworms what do YOU 
guys think of this
.webp?h=11 "Nuzzles, pounces on you, UwU, you're so warm!..")
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Sometimes I really wonder how this "media literacy" thing gets picked up. Is it just the end product of having a bunch of overly educated r-slurs?
These people are no better than the people who does "literary analysis" by shoehorning all kinds of dumb stuff into their work.
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It's reddit nonsense like "whataboutism." It spreads because it reaffirms their echo chamber beliefs.
Simple as, motherlover.
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This isn't coming from academia. The "media literacy" crowd is a cargo cult of people who've never read a book for pleasure (let alone taken a literature class) trying to brute-force recreate literary criticism by watching YouTube videos. It is absolutely detached from everything going on in academia, (including from "woke" frames like queer theory or whatever).
The language used is very different. I've never heard a professor talk about "media literacy" or "character arcs" or "magic systems" or anything else you'd see on /r/characterrant. The concept of "coding" (eg. Queer coding) is at least vaguely derived from media studies, but the people talking about it online are getting the topic third-hand, clumsily mis-applying it to determine if the work is "good" or "bad." (Which is mostly beside the point in academia).
These people are looking for something safe and approved to consoom, and to score points by taking down "bad" stuff. They owe far more to TVTropes and the Nostalgia Critic than they do to any scholarly tradition.
!bookworms !writecel
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Magic Systems is the Mormon hack brando sando. Magic systems appeal to people who think the height of fiction is "lore" and how easy it is to convert something into wiki pages.
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So true king
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So, it's a bunch of normies that follows another self-important normie, and they just feed off bad takes at each other?
That somehow sounds worse than overly educated r-slurs
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