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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 21 Jun 2020

      I still think Chris Avellone is responsible for what I think is the biggest creative breakthrough/insight in his field - "Games are inherently a 'meta' medium and a smart game must be a meta game" Ironically, that's exactly why I can't separate his games from him being a creep

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Jun 2020

      His most iconic "Make you feel bad for playing the game in the first place" games are about the narcissism of narrative To turn the real world into a story is to give it a protagonist, because of how stories work To be a writer or a player is to reduce other people to NPCs

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Jun 2020

      That's the ugliness about how games work, the power fantasy of it, the cheap simulation of self-actualization, paying forty bucks for an imaginary world where you're automatically the most important person, the person it was created for

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Jun 2020

      *Any kind of game*, and this subtle ugliness of how games work is much more insidious in a cutesy dating sim than a violent war game about blowing up buildings Which Avellone was self-aware about, and why he was skeeved out by Bioware companion romances

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Jun 2020

      But hey, it turned out he knew whereof he spoke Because that's how he treated his whole career and the women in it A game of Rock Star Game Dev Simulator where you can try to bed every woman you meet as a sidequest for XP

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Jun 2020

      And the game might be this gloomy thing about being a self loathing tortured alcoholic but you're still the main character and so no matter how many times this ends in disaster you might as well shoot your shot each time because hey there might be content behind that skill gate

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Jun 2020

      Just like the Nameless One, being this apparently unstoppable endlessly respawning menace blundering thoughtlessly through countless people's lives leaving a trail of carnage in your wake Treating them all as learning experiences you somehow never learn from

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Jun 2020

      Fucking disgusting

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Jun 2020

      The design doc for Torment was this ridiculous fratboy leering sexist thing ("Blonde babes, undead babes, demon babes, Asian babes") And I always thought the character of Deionarra was him transcending this toxic game bro culture he was coming from, indicting and condemning it

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Jun 2020

      Turns out that was more of a confession

      12:41 PM - 21 Jun 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Jun 2020

          Lolsob and the whole core mechanic of Torment with the amnesia and the past lives and the alternate personae is really just this complicated fantasy metaphor for "Wow I must've been drunk again"

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Jun 2020

          (So much of this fantasy and horror stuff is just a metaphor for booze Like the magic potion in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is just alcohol You can translate the whole story into just "He became an alcoholic")

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        1. PossibleCabbage‏ @PossibleCabbage 21 Jun 2020
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          Write what you know, I guess. I wonder how much of the more puerile stuff in Fallout 2 can be pinned on him.

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        1. doc holiday's disappointed med school professor‏ @TylerMoody 21 Jun 2020
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          i mean a lot of them do that; louis ck's entire act was a confession

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