It is striking how the smallest impediments can act as barriers. I play the piano less because I have to switch it on, so twiddling as I go past involves an extra step, and that's a lot less inconvenient than swapping cables.
I did wonder whether this would hit your "people are being deceptive and manipulative" thing and decided no, because it's like a detective novel. Everyone is being MASSIVELY deceptive and manipulative, but the audience knows that and so of course do the characters. They don't know what their enemies have got on them, but they certainly know that they have enemies and that they are being enthusiastically schemed against.
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Date: 2020-05-11 10:24 am (UTC)I did wonder whether this would hit your "people are being deceptive and manipulative" thing and decided no, because it's like a detective novel. Everyone is being MASSIVELY deceptive and manipulative, but the audience knows that and so of course do the characters. They don't know what their enemies have got on them, but they certainly know that they have enemies and that they are being enthusiastically schemed against.