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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9439467" data-attributes="member: 29398">So, bathos seems to be a term for when characters in a fiction provide their own comic relief rather than have it provided for them by another character whose main function is to be that comic relief.Are you saying you don't like it when players use their in-game characters to provide comic relief? Or if not, what are you saying?Personally, I like that Hulk-Loki scene.Not a strawman at all, in that long experience has shown me that players who take the game as seriously as you seem to want are also the players who aren't going to react well out-of-character to bad things that happen in-character, and would indeed directly equate your character attacking mine in the game as you attacking me in person because they either can't or won't separate the two.</blockquote>