Get them shinigami eyes

Dota introduced behavior scores and tries to match chill people with chill people now. It’s really easy to ragebait someone when you’re stressed out though. I get quiet or helpful teams more than raging teams these days, luckily, but it’s super difficult to tell a flamer, in a nice way, that pointing fingers won’t fix our teamplay and we need a better strategy right now.

I think the best strategy is to liberally mute anyone who even seems slightly stressed out, before they snap for real.

MLP is actually making a bit of a comeback right now. I saw so many pony cosplays at comicon, but they’re all the age to have watched FiM when they were the proper target audience. So it made enough of an impact on these people that they go full cerulean body paint in a heatwave 10-15 years later.

It’s a really good cartoon though. It had strong, consistent characters, developing over 9 seasons. Stories were well-written, setting up a problem with a character flaw and resolving with a lesson learned. The ensemble cast meant that every permutation of pony resulted in new dynamics.

And it inspired so many artists, many of them still active. A lot of them dropped the “brony” from their name by now, but there’s so many musicians who started in MLP and branched out.