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What's happening right now should be personal — to all of us.
People love to make fun of Archeologists for how often we say objects were used ritualistically, as if we overuse that designation or just say it when we a don't know what something was used for. But that's only because people don't stop to think how full of ritual all of our lives are.
The meme is actually correct for the most part, hotdogs are ritually consumed during baseball games. Lots of people only even eat hotdogs if they're watching baseball. The expectation for us to eat turkey on thanksgiving is another example of us ritually consuming food. Drinking coffee every morning is another ritual we do. Going to the gym several days a week is a ritual.
"Ritual" doesn't necessarily mean "religious."
Stickers you can immediately hear.
A non-comprehensive list of media that makes me go "your house really shouldn't be doing that, man":
House of leaves
Piranesi
Blue Prince
house md
Let’s bring Flash development back so 14 year olds can create extremely violent and greasy minigames about eviscerating Labubu and upload them to Newgrounds.
Generational differences!
bg3 hot take: wyll ravengard is NOT lawful good and i will die on this hill.
polite, sincere, gentle != lawful good.
he wants to be lawful…but he demonstrably follows his conscience over systems or rules whenever they conflict. see: the kagha dialogue where he calls her a demon for punishing arabella, the eagerness to kill the entire goblin camp, the fact that he sold his soul at 17 instead of relying on the Flaming Fist or other “official” defenses to protect the city, + more. he suggests drowning gortash in his own blood. he is a ok with ignoring procedure as long as it aligns with what he personally thinks someone deserves.
the man is neutral or chaotic good.
He canonical alignment is literally neutral good! They let his demeanor fool them, but he is willing to break his own pact to spare Karlach.
Just played through the part today in Act 1 where you can talk to him about Ulder, and one of his biggest critiques is that in diplomacy, you often have to make nice with as many bad guys as you manage to put away/get rid of. It's why I personally can't ever see him as a paladin because as soon as a code/law/etc. contradicts what his conscience is telling him to do, he will act against it. He also is open to changing his mind on a matter, such as the tadpoles, if evidence proves it can be used for good. He isn't so strict in his beliefs that he is unwilling to budge on an idea.


