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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9377755" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah but that's weird anti-teenager borderline incel stuff dude, and you should stay away from it. There's a ton of hate directed at the character because she's:A) A teenager.B) Female.C) Asian.In about that order. And people pretend like it isn't, but it undeniably is.Curiously, Aiden, from Diablo 1/2, who was at least ten times as absolutely stupid, and barely older (early 20s), attracts no snarky comments about "overconfidence" or "young life" or whatever, even though they're just as or more applicable. Just an accident that he was a white male in his 20s, rather than an asian teenage girl. Just a coincidence. We shouldn't read anything into the extreme double-standard. Even though this guy was so dumb, he didn't just take the stone and run off alone, he jammed into his goddamn forehead. Also funny how Frodo (another white guy in his de facto 20s) doesn't really get any sneering for deciding to go it alone, instead people tend to direct their snark towards Tolkien. Very few people acknowledge, either, that Neyrelle has actually studied the lore around the stone very extensively, so even if she's making a dumb decision, it's a lot more informed of a dumb decision than the others.I think if we drop the anti-teenager stance and vague, unformed racism/sexism, then we have to admit that the stones are clearly pretty good at convincing people to take them alone. And the lesson people should take from Aiden is that, no, they aren't "built different", and they'd absolutely be equally affected by it. It's probably a damn good thing the Main Character didn't take it, just like it's a good thing Galadriel or Boromir didn't take the ring, even though they were a lot "stronger" than Frodo.</blockquote>

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