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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The setting is fun. The author is garbage. Also don't think too hard about the characters or the way different magical races are portrayed.

[–] Yermaw@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah if you start analysing it and paying the slightest attention with -phobias in mind the whole thing starts looking at bit sus.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

The first movie has a couple possibly problematic things ("you're supposed to be a good athlete, it's in your genes"), but I feel like a lot of it goes away the longer the movies continue.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 22 hours ago

The goblins made me go "uhh..." even when I first saw the first movie as a teen.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you pay the game you realize how few women and non-white characters there were.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

When I played it, I felt like they kinda bent over backwards for representation. An Indian spells teacher, an African fortune telling teacher, a Japanese broom coach, etc... Plus not to mention all the classmates that are straight up from other countries, and that mention other countries in their conversations.

There's also the married interracial lesbian witch couple, the trans witch who runs the Three Broomsticks and the letter you can find that implies she and Garlick were a thing back when they were younger.

A lot of the NPCs felt like specific middle fingers right to JK imo