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Speaking directly on the topic of "escapism vs structural change", one of the important elements of effecting social change is being able to imagine a better world. Something that seems like escapism might actually be showing a way our world could be improved. Something to aim for when trying to change things.
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Been thinking of a talk I had with a friend a while back about the under-appreciation of horseback archery in fantasy stories.

There's two different thoughts bundled up together in there.
One of which is some people like to make orcs "like mongols" in that they do marauding warbands and a religious mandate to conquer the world around them.
But.
You don't typically see orcish horse archers.
People who don't know bows don't necessarily think of them as a "strength" weapon. They're the nimble dexterity weapon, right? For people not strong enough to hack and slash?
...people who know bows are scoffing right now.
Also orcs are brutish and uncivilized and would just eat the horses, right?
...at best this is a Lord of the Rings-inspired viewpoint and at worst it's repackaged racism (it could also be both).
Nah, orcs should 100% have horse archers and it would be EPIC.

But also I'm working with elves for one of my worlds right now, who have a bit of an asian theme to them (It's more complex than that, I'm summarizing). And I decided it would be cool if they had samurai-style horse archers.
There's no orcs in that world. I won't be putting both these ideas in the same place.
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I have criticisms about the dynamic difficulty but don't currently have the brainpower to write them up.
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It's so frustrating and terrible. I've been looking into Discord alternatives like Revolt. I haven't jumped ship yet... but I'm getting ready to. Downloading chat logs I care a lot about. Bracing myself for the change...

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