#Pascal is really into “decoding” and goes out of his way to find secret messages from the satanic cabal. QAnonner

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RIGHT THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING

I acknowledge that the cultural conversation around conspiracy theories was different 20 years ago (more X Files than MAGA), but like given their character descriptions Pascal would likely be into QAnon and Lazlo is canonically into measuring skulls which is like one door to the left of extremely racist stuff plus a really weird anti trans rabbithole to boot. Like I understand that's not how they were intended but that's a way to read them in a modern context.

(I usually just go with the dad/loser/stoner headcanon trio because fundamentally conspiracy theorists that deep in the rabbithole, while interesting, really just need professional help)

Why is the "he has a degree in phrenology" bit in Lazlo Curious's bio treated like it's a quirky new age thing? Why does no one portray Lazlo as a racist bigot, or an ex-racist bigot? I mean, people have no problem portraying General Buzz as a bigot, or Olive as a serial killer, or Circe and Loki as sadistic abusers, so it's not like people don't want to have problematic characters in their games.

I'm not saying you need to acknowledge the phrenology bit, since canon doesn't really exist in the sims games. I just personally can't ignore it.