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Creator spite sure is fun! Nothing brings me more joy than the deterioration of happiness and the proliferation of misery.

Jokes aside, I feel we generally understand that creators will always put some of themselves and their emotions into their work no matter how much they or others want to completely divorce that fact from the creation. I bring that up since one of those emotions would be anger.

There are of course plenty of times when audiences randomly assume that a creator is doing something out of spite (especially when taking a statement out of context) and making a sweeping statement in either direction may be missing the mark since motivations and feelings are not so cleanly divided.

That being said... Yeah, there are also plenty of times where it certainly feels like a creator is offloading some anger at either society, their environment, certain people and/or things, or even specific types of mentalities.

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Goals and hopes for the week?

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Topic of the Week

Fate/destiny is one of those nearly omnipresent tropes, even when not a direct theme. This makes sense since determinism, fatalism, and some aspects of existentialism are concerned with it, and it is something that has probably plagued the human mind for as long as we have had coherent thoughts and the capacity to self-perceive.

Whatever could be said has either already been directly stated before or has been similarly expressed. For instance, I personally don't entirely resonate when fate is made to be solely an external force that can be overcome, as I typically don't care for entirely offloading deep internal struggles to the external. While I haven't finished God of War: Ragnarok, I do know the idea of fate just being the logical conclusion of choices made is discussed.

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