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It’s set in the 1490s because that’s the current era in Forgotten Realms, just like the first games were set in the 1360s because that was the era that was current at the time. It’s not like they actively chose that specific time period for any of the three games.

Because the internet has a thing for identifying with assholes. Look at Rick Sanchez or Dennis Renolds or Starship Troopers or Warhammer 40K or Helldivers. Take any character or group that’s explicitly coded as terrible in the source material, hand it to the Internet, and they’ll start making memes about it and eventually unironically decide that character is legitimately great actually. And the people spamming the shit everywhere will always act as though such a thing could never happen.

Meanwhile in the US…

No, it makes fence-sitters feel like there’s something to identify with in a baby eating lunatic and slowly shifts the Overton window further and further toward normalizing straight up evil.

Homelander memes: helping the internet make fascists feel normal and relatable since 2024 or whenever.

This is cool, but I’m still waiting on a way to play Secret of Mana online that’s actually viable.