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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Jun 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li

      Alan Moore famously said the whole reason Watchmen was supposedly "revolutionary" for a comic book was that it was just a normal story He wrote it like a regular novel - beginning, middle and end, self-contained with none of the "superhero comic book universe" continuity shithttps://twitter.com/perdricof/status/1272914077619294210 …

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      Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @perdricof
      Replying to @perdricof @BootlegGirl
      i think TLOU/2 consciously rejects that idea. they're explicitly performing a more traditional narrative style: these are distinct, specific characters, and you get to hear a story about them and what they did
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Jun 2020

      All the stuff that comic book fans thought was such a big damn deal about Watchmen - the sense of "narrative inevitability" inexorably propelling the characters toward an apocalyptic end - is normal It's as old as Aristotle's Poetics It's how a normal book is written

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Jun 2020

      Which is why he was so snarky about the fact that Watchmen won all these awards and then everyone just wanted to turn it into a regular stupid DC comic Extend the Watchmen "universe" and show the different characters fighting each other in an ongoing continuity

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    4. LightningLouie Interface 2037 Ready For Inquiry‏ @Elpico72 16 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      This obsession w/universes and worldbuilding reminds me of all the fantasists who become utterly obsessed w/their fictional settings and lose all interest in the stories they were supposed to be telling -- see Jordan, Martin, Rothfuss. Inertia becomes a strategy, so it never ends

      1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
    5. LightningLouie Interface 2037 Ready For Inquiry‏ @Elpico72 16 Jun 2020
      Replying to @Elpico72 @arthur_affect

      Reminds me of M. John Harrison's statement about worldbuilding as "the great clomping foot of nerdism"

      1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Jun 2020
      Replying to @Elpico72

      It's like the people whose take on Bioshock Infinite was like "Wow this world is so intricate and beautiful I'd love to just spend more time exploring it instead of shooting it to pieces" and one guy just EXPLODED on them

      3 replies 1 retweet 17 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72

      "THIS WORLD EXISTS TO BE SHOT TO PIECES IT IS A MORAL ATROCITY NOT TO SHOOT IT TO PIECES IT'S A FALSE UTOPIA BASED ON CLOYING AMERICANA BUILT ON RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY YOU STUPID VACUOUS FUCKS"

      1 reply 2 retweets 24 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72

      Like I'm not really gonna go to bat for the Bioshocks, which are deeply flawed But they both have the villain try to call you out on the whole violent video game murder simulator thing You're an agent of apocalypse, you can only interact with the world via gun

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72

          You only destroy, never create You can't talk to people or negotiate or propose any implement reforms All you can do is burn and smash and kill Doesn't that make you the real bad guy

          2 replies 2 retweets 14 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72

          And the answer is no This world needed burning and these people needed killing Sometimes a whole damn society is irredeemable and needs to be drowned in rivers of blood

          2 replies 2 retweets 23 likes
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        1. Jacob Wisner‏ @JacobWisner1 16 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72

          I do appreciate how Dishonored made that point/argument a game mechanic rather than *just* speachifying it.

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        2. a bear but w/ ROBOT ARMS‏ @Trothael 16 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72

          This is the issue of degrees of separation between the character and the player. Bioshock is very arguably not an RPG, it's a railroaded story. How do you make the player feel anything about a character's actions when their agency is entirely limited to pre-defined mechanics.

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        3. Matthew Vilter‏ @MatthewVilter 16 Jun 2020
          Replying to @Trothael @arthur_affect @Elpico72

          Bioshock is not a role playing game in the sense of you making choices for the character. It has "RPG mechanics" but that doesn't mean the player is going to be a co-author to the story.

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        2. Not Drunk Enough‏ @NotSomeFanboy 16 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72

          Isn't that the whole point of Booker DeWitt? A protagonist whose only tool in the toolbox is violence so all he does is bring it over and over and over again? Like, don't get me wrong the games are an ideological mishmash and B:I has some truly reprehensible both sides-ing...

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        3. Not Drunk Enough‏ @NotSomeFanboy 16 Jun 2020
          Replying to @NotSomeFanboy @arthur_affect @Elpico72

          ...but I thought the violence in Bioshock: Infinite was equally a commentary on violence external and internal to the meta-text.

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