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Or whenever you read it. If you read it.

I saw a thread on another board from a guy who was blatantly satirizing the attitudes of some of the people in the game with an over-the-top take, and everyone there was taking him literally and thinking he was the biggest idiot/troll they'd ever seen. It made me remember when my 12th grade teacher had us read A Modest Proposal, and everyone in the class took it at face value and thought it was incredibly awful, and who the hell did this Johnathan Swift guy think he was, talking about eating babies?

The difference, of course, is that we naive teenagers had never seen a work of literature that had been written as blatant satire, and didn't consider for a second that our teacher would give us a work that was meant to imply the exact opposite of what it said. Whereas people are sarcastic all the time on the internet. But I still wonder how many other people had that moment where they went, "Wait, what? It's not real?"

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