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Despite assurances from legal experts and the Supreme Court itself that the ruling very specifically applied to the Equality Act wording only and was limited in scope, this was a signal for transphobes everywhere - from politicians, to shitty authors, to random thugs hopped up on right-wing media propaganda - to start putting the boot in, figuratively and literally. | Image credit: SoulMuppet Publishing Connecting the dots between the real-world political organisation portrayed in Mad As Hell and the sort of fantasy adventuring shenanigans found in a more traditional RPG resulted in minor epiphany. In the wake of the Final Fantasy Tactics remake being announced, writer Yasumi Matsuno published a statement touching upon both the circumstances that he originally created the story in, and how it is relevant in 2025 "when inequality and division are still deeply rooted in our society."

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