The pleasure of filling out an alignment chart is similar to that of playing a simple brainteaser, or completing an elementary-school worksheet: You’re making judgment calls, sorting, putting objects into little boxes-and you end up with something neat and composed. Here’s a suit alignment chart /nQ44D5NugM - Emilia Petrarca March 5, 2019 They spread easily because they clash with other people’s instincts: I get viscerally angry looking at an absolutely wrong alignment chart of Gilmore Girls characters, which might prompt me to make my own. Alignment charts are easy to customize, and they have a crisp legibility. It is now used by people who have never sat around a table pretending to be druids and clerics, or possibly even heard of the game. The grid comes from the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, but has been long divorced from that context. The same goes for how they get rid of earwax, and how they respond to a meeting invitation. A moral significance apparently can be gleaned from the way people sit in a chair or cut an apple or drink their coffee or position their bed relative to their bedroom walls. Signifying one’s acknowledgment or acceptance with okay is neutral good, while writing ok then is neutral evil. Avril Lavigne’s white tank top is chaotic neutral. Alignment charts have covered face-washing techniques, middle-aged working actors, New York City transit options. Truly, it is hard to find a category that the internet hasn't aligned. They pop up on Pinterest, in the Alignment Charts subreddit, and in lifestyle publications.Ĭhaotic good and chaotic evil /QQM5RGYB4u - m February 9, 2020 They’re tossed around every major social platform, and have become a common cultural reference point. Alignment charts have been used to sort politicians, versions of Windows, and seemingly everything else. How is dog-earing a page more “evil” than marking it with random garbage? How can reading an ebook be considered a “neutral” choice? And that’s just bookmarks. This chart went viral mainly because it prompted debate and defensiveness. Using a normal bookmark is “true neutral,” while leaving the book open and upside down is “neutral evil.”

Using a book ribbon as a bookmark, the chart tells you, is “lawful good.” Scrap paper and receipts are still good, but also chaotic. The axes of the nine-square grid-lawful, neutral, chaotic across the top good, neutral, evil down the side-assign expansive significance to each choice. At least, that’s according to a chart that was widely circulated on Twitter last month (and originally shared on Tumblr). The answer tells you everything you need to know about the moral lens through which you view the world. How do you keep track of what page you’re on in a book?

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