As someone who has gotten frustrated with the direction of the thread before, and even thought "yeah, its time has probably passed", it's always a little funny to see it starting to slide away and then get inevitably bumped back up to the front page for days by people asking "wtf why is this still here" and subsequently trolling. I mean, okay. Sure.

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This is a continuation of the "hypersensitive and constantly offended" narrative above. Which, incidentally, is often used by right-leaning people to insult the more left-leaning when they engage in progressive identity politics. But I thought everyone had agreed the bad, terrible, awful, no-good Endwalker dissenters also all happened to be conservatives and fascist supporters of the Garlean Empire and the superior race of Ancients? I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you!
This has always been a little "huh" for me, since - not that it matters much for the purposes of game discussion in most cases - I'm about as hard left as you can ask for, and so are most of my friends who play the game; if you asked me personally, I'd say a lot of my own qualms with where Endwalker's writing took things are intertwined deeply with my progressive standpoint? Not into the whole orientation of one's worth around "strength" to the point of condemning a post-scarcity society that has accomplished strong social support and networks for supposedly lacking it (y-yay primitivism?), very weird Social Darwinist overtures, accepting the premise that one should and must prove one's worthiness to exist, the uncritical self-celebratory cheerleading, and bizarre abstractions to justify mass violence against an Othered population complete with historical/cultural erasure. Not into it!

Not that others can't - and haven't - expressed different angles for disliking Endwalker (that I often disagree with, and may or may not have outright clashed with people about), but I guess it's not the first or last time I've seen political-ish (or identity-ish) inferences made about one's general response to the game or characters where I've just gone "Huh. Uh. Hm. Unsures at"