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Re:Perfect Motherfucking Website by bob1029 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @12:50PM (#26741028)
There is always a balance with these things. I try to be careful to use profanity as a tool rather than a literary crutch.

If you only use a phrase like "fucking bullshit" once across an entire blog post or book, you will find it has far greater impact on the reader. They will think "wow out of 400 pages of polite discourse, this is the one thing the author would really like to highlight as adverse".

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Re:Perfect Motherfucking Website by SamuelAdams on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:15PM (#26741321)
Agreed, this is what I liked about the book “The Martian”. The protagonist only curses a couple times in the book and they really carry weight given the circumstances.
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