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aspect slander pt. 10 - Rage spin up y0ur laugh tracks because rage is a fucking joke. i expect this 0ne two be b0ring in its simplicity. which is practically a fucking thesis statement. i have n0 better way two put this but fr0m every scrap of c0de and every situation i've seen i can 0nly conclude it's literally inc0mplete. maybe it's some c0smic bit of skaia's that it's being intenti0nally antagonistic t0ward that aspect but it's less clever and more fucking lazy. maybe it wanted s0mething to give tw0 players that were already primed and ready to ruin everything and d0n't need any kind of special g0ading? not the scalpel pr0blem solving 0f the time player, or the sheer gravitic eg0 pull of the light and bl0od players trying tw0 drag a floundering sessi0n along. rage is f0r the attack barkbeast. let it off the chain in the directi0n of the enemy. thr0w the collar back 0n tight as quick as you can afterwards and l0ck them back up. there's usually some kind 0f grandiose narrative skaia tries to sell tw0 players, some great legend and aspirati0n based on their aspect, the sm0ke and mirrors that trick the p0or dumb s0ds suckered into a sessi0n and get them two buy in. rage d0esn't have one. search high and l0w and there's just... nothing there. n0 legend of secrets in the v0id to seek. n0 charge of breeding a new universe (with y0ur disposability in it left 0ut) laid on their sh0ulders. here's your shitty afterth0ught land. go rampage in it 0r whatever it is you dumb brutes d0. maybe run intwo y0ur denizen and ideally die before the end s0 skaia can stop limp wristing a st0ryline. rage is exactly what it says on the tin, perhaps the 0nly one. it's a barbed h0ok with n0 bait at all and yet it's placed with perfection damn near any time the parasitic blue d0t decides two cast it 0ut. you're the angry fuck and that's all. f0r most that's pr0bably all it needs. anger issues are already an extremely powerful psych0logical trap, why w0uld skaia bother fixing what isn't br0ken? angry people d0 stupid shit in their anger and give themselves more pr0blems that stoke m0re anger. keep them pointed at the shit skaia wants them tw0 kill and it works beautifully. hell, even i can't fault the rage player being grateful f0r having a pretty much harmless outlet 0f antagonistic game c0nstructs for the slaughter. if they can stick t0 those, that is. n0 alternian needs reminding that feeding a constant stream 0f positive feedback based 0n violence and anger intw0 some0ne almost inevitably leads t0 them chasing more 0f it until they run into their 0wn side. but most d0n't need that explained. as much as the garden variety dumbfuck totally buys in tw0 how w0nderful the planet killing parasite is, that same vegetable of a pers0n will still be able to unfurl a leaf and p0int out rage is basically always a bad thing. that's n0t who needs c0nvincing. the one wh0 needs convincing is the midwit wh0 read 'this is a work in pr0gress, the aspect is literally incomplete' and went 'that means there's definitely s0mething more!' 0h they're fucked. motivated like a v0id player but twice as much a sucker. they want meaning, and like a do0m player without any 0f the finesse they're going tw0 poke and pr0d for m0re of it then quickly switch t0 smashing and tearing everything down searching f0r it. but there will never be anything there. a h0ok at the end 0f a barbed chain that the rage player will shred themselves apart climbing and climbing. they'll pr0bably come up with s0mething of c0urse. the curse of a search f0r meaning is that you'll alm0st certainly find one. but it will be s0mething came up with by them alone, backed up by n0thing. no the game wasn't challenging y0u because it wanted to see h0w well you can delude y0urself (that's for hope). n0 you aren't there two tear the systems 0f whatever the fuck down, the pr0spit and derse plot is f0r everyone dipshit. a search f0r purpose sh0uld be noble but the disgusting system will be fighting t0 stamp it down. pray whatever they c0me up with for filling that h0le is at least couched in the game, because if they decide they're meant tw0 point that rage at the team it's game 0ver. by the time they're dead or they've piled up the rest 0f the team maybe they'll have figured out there were n0 answers in the entrails. the rage player 0n this deluded tangent wants to pr0ve they're not a j0ke and only makes a bigger laughingst0ck out 0f themself. there's really no helping it th0ugh, one is pr0bably getting steamed reading this right now and will t0tally prove me wr0ng. iT wIlL wOrK tHiS tImE!