It's the clash between the seriousness and the perspective. The view from nowhere...
Look deep inside yourself for your inner frat boy. Or spatula, one or the other.
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There seems to be this underlying expectation that the players are largely a bunch of simple-minded, morally righteous but extremely violent thugs who are willing to believe just about anything put in front of them and never question whether a fight was necessary or avoidable or what it says about them that they chose to kill everyone hostile yet again once things got a bit tense.