There was no frisson of moral transgression when people started playing Deathmatch in Doom for the first time and had Space Marines shooting each other instead of demons We all knew that story didn't mean anything in the first place
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Much like no one actually gets mad about fucking playing Bowserhttps://clickhole.com/the-ability-to-play-as-bowser-has-made-our-society-more-1825123963/ …
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It's the same shit with Undertale Undertale only works because it is, at least on some level, fundamentally not serious It's meta, we all understand you are not actually trapped underground or at risk of death from monsters attacking you
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Its sense of good and evil is *aesthetic* Violence is ugly and crude and reconciliation is beautiful and elegant That's the moral sense that informs the game, to an absurd degree (does any of the fanbase care that Alphys is the Dr. Mengele of Asgore's regime?)
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But people bought into that shit and drank so deeply of it they went ahead and sent the game to the Pope and called it a great work of art about pacifism and empathy and shit
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This author says that Undertale's "moral absolutism" lets you experience *real* good and evil in a game in a way that your Bioshocks and your Lasts of Us could never match Which is so utterly headass I'm like actually seriously pissed off
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I would personally say part of the trap of Undertale seems to have been the fandom. The fact that you *can* spare the monsters and get their point of view through great effort & sacrifice isn't the issue, the weird bit came in from the fandom arguing it is like a moral necessity?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Undertale as I understand it isn't about the weight of killing so much as "you have literally godlike power, you have the potential to go the extra mile to ensure everyone lives. Do you do so?" Which is an entirely artificial conceit with no resemblance to reality!
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But *is* a so-called "disordered pattern of thinking" that is particularly common among victims of abuse, so-called "hyperscrupulosity"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Believing everything is your fault, you are responsible for everyone else's happiness, and ruminating over past actions seeking to connect everything negative in your world today to some mistake you made ("If only I could reload my save, if only I could replay my life PERFECTLY")
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It is so on-the-nose about this, in fact -- and the opening with Toriel such an on-the-nose portrait of certain forms of manipulative emotional abuse -- that it's actively very upsetting to me how uncritically people just accept this narrative that "Undertale teaches empathy"
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