Not "I think there's artistic value in making the violence visceral so it will be unpleasant" but "I find the visceral violence pleasant" "If the enemies don't truly suffer when you kill them then what's the point of doing so"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I guess in our post-Columbine world we're all trying to distance ourselves from the era of Postal and the like
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I am thinking back to old CRPGs and how Bioware's idea of Renegade Shepard is supposed to be more nuanced than old school Evil characters but there was a certain integrity in having Evil just be straight up Evil
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
my hot take is that the Renegade notion undergoes serious transformation from 1 to 2. in ME1 the renegade options really are sorta bad and mean-spirited. in ME2 they've sanded off the rough edges, and now it's just shepard not having any patience for bullshit.
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
There's a certain basic problem in that ultimately classic Evil is just kind of petty and uninteresting, more than it being "unrealistic." Trump is pretty much classic hardcore Evil as fuck. He's also, you know, monstrously boring and intolerable to have in your world.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
lol, like in BG2 it's just so dumb, the "evil!" options are like "i fuck these people over for pocket change" and the "Good" options are "i give these people something that costs me nothing in exchange for 20k quest experience" "evil" in that context just means "short-sighted"
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
Like that's really the problem we run into as storytellers. Unrepentantly Evil people are, to many of us, just fundamentally not interesting; they're shallow, intolerable people who we often don't particularly enjoy writing compared to people with SOME level of nuance.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
i'm trying to think about what to say but it's hard because inside my head there's a little picture of aristotle screaming THERE IS NO SUMMUM MALUMpic.twitter.com/bXZaA1XTyf
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Replying to @perdricof @loudpenitent and
But there IS, Doctor; his name is DARKSEIDpic.twitter.com/YDbpPcrQli
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Replying to @TellerGrim @loudpenitent and
i believe this is called a "category mistake" the summum malum, of course, is the Anti-Life Equation
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I thought the Pope said the summum malum was basically transition
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