Camellias - 27 - It/Its - Don't be a freak about it. We used to be on here like 7 years ago and now we Came Back Wrong. Happily Married and Happily Plural.
Now, in the clear light of the post-combat situation report I grant that it was perhaps not the most tactically efficient course to expend a once-per-mission cooldown and incur sufficient excess heat to melt my own reactor core twice over in order to inflict 45 points of damage upon a target with 8 HP, but I strongly feel any assessment of the soundness of my decision should take into account that fucker had it coming.
I do think people start speaking specialist vocabularies and get mad at people when their ordinary language homophones don't mean the same thing. And I think that's a rather silly thing to get mad at. When someone says that "viruses are alive" or "Pluto is a planet" or "they did such and such performatively" they really have no stakes in like what the best theoretical construct for talking about life is or what definition of planet is going to make the cleanest spreadsheet for physicists, or what Judith Butler means when they say "performative." And frankly it doesn't have any impact on the actual specialist practices. And what they mean by it something true enough. So why care? I think of this as entirely tedious example of scientism as ideology