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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. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 4 Aug 2020
      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!

      2 replies 4 retweets 14 likes
    2. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

      Like that doesn't work if you envision the player character as a terrified child. It's as much a conversation with the player as the arbiter of their world. Compare to the true ending of Nier Automata, where the characters effectively *directly appeal to you* for deliverance.

      1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
    3. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

      And if you say yes, you step in, *literally fight the credits*, and help the praying characters save the beloved cast members from the tragic, pitiable fate their own actions produced. Because you care. But that's only possible for the *player*. The very "humans" the cast worship

      1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
    4. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

      And this is an interesting conversation, but it's also implicitly a metaconversation. It's breaking the laws of the fictional reality - the players have never before been explicitly acknowledged as forces - for the sake of emotional catharsis and hope.

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    5. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

      Which is a great beat! N:A does it beautifully! But it has nothing to do with black and white morality or this weird moral sense the author is talking about. Taro, May his name be feared, even said he didn't feel this like...erased all the blood on the characters' hands.

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    6. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

      He permits 9S and 2B a happy ending because they have suffered enough, and the players have the power to give them what they wish for - but he also says all that anguish was a natural result out what they *did* to each other and others.

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    7. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

      Like this is very much a relationship to fiction you see in two places. Fan works and games, in one case due to parasocial investment and in one agency. But games give you an absurd amount of agency, compared to real life. It's certainly not a more comprehensive morality.

      2 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
    8. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

      I think the author is mistaking the sense of *power* and *joy* they receive from works like Undertale where there is an answer that leads to vicarious happiness with a sense of moral clarity. Moral heroism often *doesn't* feel good in the moment, even if it does in the end.

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @segfaultvicta @chrysopoetics

      Yeah I've been talking a lot about Orwell the past few days and he wrote an essay about the "tragic sense of life" that I think a lot about (it's ostensibly his deep dive into why Tolstoy hated Shakespeare so much and particularly King Lear)

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      It sounds silly to accuse smart educated adult people of this But it is very common in all of us, I think, to have that kneejerk response that "Hey if you the author made this happen, that means you *wanted* it to happen You made these people suffer, and that makes you evil"

      2 replies 2 retweets 19 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      This is literally Tolstoy and Shakespeare Tolstoy, for whatever reason, specifically fixated on how much he hated King Lear And he thought the play made Shakespeare a *bad person*, that only someone with a "degraded moral sense" would set it up so Cordelia dies at the end

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        2. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta @chrysopoetics

          I get it. I also think Discourse kind of encourages it, as does our own sense of hyperempathy. But it's a trap, right?

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        3. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

          Like how often has it been a plaintive wail of "why can't we be happy? Why must people like us in stories suffer and die? Isn't the real world hard enough?" And it's a totally fair cop, but it can also be a trap.

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

          And, like, it's a fair cop Tragedy isn't always good art, and a tragedy is always trying to say something about what the author sees as the rules of the world we live in, and you're allowed to hate that statement

          1 reply 2 retweets 23 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

          But if you just flat-out reject the tragic sense of life completely, you're in denial about something You're running away from truth, you're refusing to confront what is the fundamental basis, the definition, of *having a moral sense at all* to begin with

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