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Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.
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PhD, Texas A&M, 2015. Software worker. Data nerd. My views are my own and never represent any employer.

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    1. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

      Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain. Retweeted Nivenus

      Reading the article charitably - which I'm not inclined to do, but will indulge for a moment - I think the author is trying to say that all games should be didactic resistance narratives about fighting fascism, and worries anything less obscured the moral clarity of this momenthttps://twitter.com/nivenus/status/1291154656782098432 …

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      Nivenus @nivenus
      The other definition (which I *think* is usually the one meant but now I'm not sure) is that some actions are always either A) good or B) bad, *regardless* of who does them. You could call this black and white virtue ethics I guess.
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    2. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

      I think that's a very wrong position but it's definitely consistent with what OP calls black and white factionalism and it's TRUE for the extent to which stories are about fighting realistic or even caricatured fascism

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    3. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

      The problem is that the author has, no longer being charitable, the vibe of one of my students back when I taught who wrote an essay hung over the night before while also angry (I've done this too, not free of sin)w

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      Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

      Which is how they manage to be making an argument which is most coherently a case for more games like Wolfenstein and somehow praise Undertale, a game which does not in fact have either kind of black and white morality and is downright anti-factionalist

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        2. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

          My biggest take out of all this is that it illustrates that the common interpretation of The Last of Us Part II as being a game about trying to guilt the player and emphasize everyone's humanity puts TLOU2 & Undertale perhaps closer to one another than either are to anything else

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        3. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

          The piece's author themselves somehow, and again I literally cannot think of how other than whatever explains C- composition assignments in classes, makes the conflation themselves between the morality they think they want, and what I call the uwu aesthetic

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        4. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

          Because that's literally the only way you can argue "we have too much ambiguity in game narratives about who is good or bad, and whether it's okay to kill bad guys, which it is, that's why Undertale is the best game"

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        5. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

          As others have pointed out it's not coherent to condemn the statements of characters in Bioshock Infinite (statements which are racist and suck btw) about the rebels being as bad as the oppressors bc they use violence, and then holding up a game which is entirely against violence

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        6. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

          The article isn't even doing what a bunch of frustrating games discourse does and arguing for the logically consistent position that we should move away from games violence and show nonviolence as a contrast. Like, "why don't the Bioshock rebels prove they're Better Than This"

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        7. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

          I honestly don't see how the article can be read as anything other than a caricature or parody of the sort of position I feel I've had to argue with for the last month, a sort of nebulous "because of current politics, all non-uwu art is hereby condemned"

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        8. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

          I don't actually WANT to interpret it that way, because I don't want to believe anyone actually thinks that (as opposed to accidentally reinforcing trends towards it).

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        9. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

          But it's actually kind of astounding because it really does seem to be calling for Inglorious Basterds but also Steven Universe, which isn't even *comprehensible*

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        10. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

          Again, the position "with all the real life Nazi problems we're having, it sure would be nice to pick up a controller and kill some fictional Nazis without guilt" is not one I am going to fault anyone for having. Neither is "putting stupid both sides plots in is dumb"

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        11. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

          But Undertale IS a BothSides plot! It says that the hero is on the edge between hero and genocidal monster! So is everyone else in the story! A natural playthrough without a guide would in fact look a lot like an 8 bit non gory TLOU2 where the hero fights and kills and then stops

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        12. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

          There's no "Nazis" in Undertale but many/most enemies are portrayed as having done horrid things and yet having their own stories - which the article explicitly condemned

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        13. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 5 Aug 2020

          Disclaimer: I haven't played Undertale, bc of accessibility concerns I've brought up. The author of the piece I'm discussing has played a negative amount of Undertale. They understand Undertale to the level I feel they must have reverse-played it. Unplayed it. -289 hrs on Steam

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