And it's not like there's no place for that But if you live in that escapist fantasy all the time, you become thoughtless and stupid, and when you become thoughtless and stupid, you become an asshole At least you should consider that, if you think fiction affects culture
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But it's the reality And the sense of "agency" games as a medium foster is *terrible* for really telling stories about tragic choices, or, having told those stories, getting people to accept them instead of throwing the controller at the screen
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Worst thing you can do is to program a King Lear game where you're Cordelia, and the point of the game is you stay true to your principles and therefore you die Gotta program in a Golden Ending where if you're EVEN MORE true to your principles you live and they bake you a cake
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And people are screaming about this right now because they feel so powerless and see a Trump triumphant and can't / don't want to accept a world where people like him can just do whatever they want to good people.
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Which is where you get this "no see you can totally write worlds where being good is simple and mighty" because they want to convince everyone that world is real and thereby make it real. It's the standard social activist dream
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Wise words. We could do with the world giving us fewer practical illustrations of it, but anyway it's important to understand.
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