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by Mz 3170 days ago
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They join program committees for conferences, but they have a maniacal distaste for the peer reviewing system. There have been too many missed opportunities at the hands of ill-justified criticisms. They care so little for the process that they will actively try to sabotage it. They roll a d6 for each review and assign it the corresponding score. I was lucky this time, but many others haven't been.

Usually, they take great pleasure in writing an incomprehensible review with no relation to the text they've read. But today is different, they only have one review to write. They rolled an accept, now the dungeon master exposes their bidding.

You would not ordinarily expect a chaotic neutral in academia. Academia is very bureaucratic, which fits with a Lawful alignment. A chaotic neutral character isn't even going to pretend to care about the rules. It makes you wonder how the hell they have remained in the system this long when they are so obviously phoning it in with no effort and no pretense at making at effort. It is such an obvious fuck you and your damn rules attitude, it is incomprehensible how they have failed to get fired.