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athenanon commented on I have some questions... reddit

Okay some real notes. You'll probably want to delete this when you are done reading it and I get that, but as a fellow writer and thespian I am legitimately interested in helping people with their performance.

  1. The cryptic word salad is a bit too much. If you are going to write long screeds, you need to have some semblance of sanity. "The "WHAT ABOUT....?" and "THINK ABOUT IT!" works for quick little somethings (I give, for example, the success of Q) but if you are going to write a lot, you really need to follow at least some of the rules of logic.
  2. "You primates"- your performance hangs on the idea that you are a superior being tasked with helping humanity. This means the insults make no sense. It's funny in Red Dwarf when it's a cat saying it, or in storylines where the superior being is thrown in with people against their will, but you're not pulling it off. Humans in conservation LOVE the animals they work with. Hell, even in field research, scientists become highly fond of whatever they are studying. Dolphins? Chimps? Scorpions? Tardigrades? We fall in love with what we study. Otherwise it wouldn't hold our interest. I suggest perhaps implying that this task of yours is a punishment or a shit job that you got stuck with (although with the second, you would be outing yourself as being lower-status among your own kind....which then locks your kind into being hierarchical, which if you're willing to commit, fine, but it's something to think about) OR you should throw in enough sinister shade to suggest that you don't actually have our best interests at heart. Then people wonder, are these insults character breaks??? Keep your audience guessing, always.

Apart from that, well done. I probably won't play again unless you tighten up your game, but honestly it is pretty ambitious, and so far you aren't trying to start a death cult, so I feel okay wishing you luck.

athenanon commented on I have some questions... reddit

I volunteered to be a "lab rat" to help people overcome this disease, and I'd do it again.

Also, you were the one suggesting that the definition has changed.

Also, what does loss of taste and smell symbolize? It symbolizes nothing. It means that the virus damages something along the system that regulates taste and smell. If you are actually interested in symbolism, perhaps your time would be better served by studying the arts and philosophy, rather than the sciences.

athenanon commented on I have some questions... reddit

First of all, the vaccines have all developed at more or less the same rate. Russia just pushed it out with less testing than we usually consider necessary. In fact we are too: as a guinea pig, I am still waiting to give my 6 month blood draw so they can see if the antibodies even last that long.

The definition of vaccine hasn't changed. If you are what you claim to be, you should have a thorough understanding of the science behind vaccines and immunology and the fact that you ask such a question casts a lot of doubt.

As for the rest of your inquiry, if you are asking whether the US government (and other governments) are racist and classist, the answer is yes. Yes they are. Are large portions of the population stupid, selfish, and greedy on top of being racist and classist? Absolutely. There's not much more to it than that.