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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 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      I mean in the case of Orwell's take on King Lear, the tragedy here is simple Lear wants to have his cake and eat it too He wants to magnanimously give away his power and retire He also gets mad when the people he gives his power to start using it against him

      1 reply 1 retweet 20 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      Well, don't give it away then You could've prevented this whole thing by just not doing that If you don't want people to do things to you against your will, don't give up your power That's what "power" means

      2 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      People want to be *proven right* when they do things out of principle, they engage in a certain degree of magical thinking You leave your door unlocked and some primitive part of your brain thinks that by doing so, you will inspire people to be good and not break into your house

      3 replies 3 retweets 18 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      But that's not what having principles actually means If you really have principles, you have to prepare that those principles will fail in the material world If you really decide to trust someone, you have decided to allow that person to harm you

      3 replies 3 retweets 20 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      That's the tragic sense of life, that good deeds are punished If you actually want to be sure that people don't come into your house, then you have to lock your door, and put up a fence You don't actually get to have both

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      Sometimes, you have to accept that sticking to your principles will harm you, and stick to those principles anyway and accept the harm Or decide the harm is not worth it, and abandon those principles, and be a less principled person but a safer one Either one is tragic

      4 replies 6 retweets 25 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      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

      3 replies 3 retweets 13 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      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

      1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      People have been trying, for a long time, to engage the "tragic sense of life" in gaming, to really set up a situation where "If you do the right thing, you lose the game, if you give in and do the wrong thing, you win" There's always resistance, people never like it

      1 reply 2 retweets 12 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      The author of the OP article would almost certainly call such a situation "moral grayness", even though it isn't really that at all It's not morally gray to show the world being destroyed because someone wouldn't betray their own family

      2 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      If you actually seriously believe that, if THAT IS YOUR PRINCIPLE -- "It would be better to let the world burn then to betray someone I love" -- then YOU HAVE TO SHOW THAT If you refuse to show that, YOU DON'T REALLY BELIEVE THAT, you DO NOT HAVE THAT PRINCIPLE

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

          I'm not, like, yelling at you for that It's not necessarily good to have that principle, it may be bad It may be that the right thing to do is to stab my own kin in the back for the greater good to save millions But then you have to show THAT Pick one, pick SOMETHING

          2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

          It's the need to have your cake and eat it too "I WOULD let the whole world burn to save you, honey, but luckily, the fact that I love you so much means God will reward me by making sure I never have to" Kierkegaardian leap of faith Binding of Isaac cop-out mumbo-jumbo

          1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
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        1. J. C. Cantwell‏ @segfaultvicta 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent @chrysopoetics

          it upsets me that i cannot hire you to write a video game on the spot just because of this subthread

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