Assuming, in the case of online games, it does not affect the game for others, I agree.

A bit of a scale issue. You’re seeing the top 0.001% of people. And they derive some kind of pleasure from their passions (probably) and are really specifically wired to chase this thing. It’s ok to be mortal. The only thing you should excel at is being you and finding satisfaction in your own life. For every person with a world changing invention, or what have you, there are millions of people just living, and that’s ok.

GNU Terry Pratchett

It was a term du jour back in the Jim Crow (read: hyper racist) era. That particular phrasing has baggage.

This willfully disregards the history of the terms and tries to justify itself on pedantry alone. By your logic, since it refers to people of color as well, the n-word is also perfectly fine. If you agree, there’s no hope for you here.

Seems like it’s good/evil up to down, law/chaos left to right, but working to ditch the baggage of the terms. I like it.

That’s pretty much what my group fell on when we looked at alignment. Maximally pro-social vs maximally self-serving. Moustache twiddling evil isn’t really a thing so it makes fleshing out an evil character much easier when their motivation is more than “murder is fun”.

Still less unsettling than his actual face.

For people at large, nothing. I’m a data engineer. Eyes immediately gloss over when I tell them. I do have a tool that is a one stop shop potential violation of PII rules.

Personally identifying information.