From there I got introduced to Order of the Stick, and then it was all over. I *refuse* to find new fandoms through TvTropes, as I've said before!
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I also gotta say that the fora there are full of fail all around, excepting, of course, the people I agree with. I've never seen so many people insisting at one time that just because somebody *says* something they must *mean* that. What a world they live in! Not a one of them has ever heard of "lying" or "rationalizing"! Then there are the ones who seem to think that the end justifies the means. They're arguing as some subset of morality that exists only in role-playing games, which might make sense (although it's entirely without nuance... then again, I suppose it fits in with the "what people say is what they mean" line half of them are all giving), I don't know, but when five different evil characters all think somebody acted evilly - give it up already!
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I also gotta say that the fora there are full of fail all around, excepting, of course, the people I agree with. I've never seen so many people insisting at one time that just because somebody *says* something they must *mean* that. What a world they live in! Not a one of them has ever heard of "lying" or "rationalizing"! Then there are the ones who seem to think that the end justifies the means. They're arguing as some subset of morality that exists only in role-playing games, which might make sense (although it's entirely without nuance... then again, I suppose it fits in with the "what people say is what they mean" line half of them are all giving), I don't know, but when five different evil characters all think somebody acted evilly - give it up already!