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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

      What matters more, the chance to save the world or to save the one person you care about? Which direction do you send the trolley? That's why it's *dramatically interesting*, that Joel fully becomes a hero to some at the moment he becomes a monster to others

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    2. Abigail Nussbaum‏ @NussbaumAbigail 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I don't know. The argument being made by the article is obviously reductive, but I personally am pretty fatigued with trolley problem-based storytelling. I don't find it dramatically interesting at all anymore.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    3. Abigail Nussbaum‏ @NussbaumAbigail 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect

      And I thought @BootlegGirl's observation - that the game doesn't actually give you a choice, and that its success comes from having established the character so well that there's only one possible course of action for the person he is - says a lot about what makes for good drama.

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    4. Abigail Nussbaum‏ @NussbaumAbigail 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect

      I also think it's undeniable that trolly problem storytelling has very large failure points, and that they often take the form of refusing to take a side, merely posing the question for the sake of the appearance of complexity.

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    5. Abigail Nussbaum‏ @NussbaumAbigail 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect

      Last night I watched the penultimate episode of Stargirl, where the heroes discover that the bad guys' evil plan is to use mind control to create a socialist utopia with universal healthcare and renewable energy source. That's not complex or dramatic. It's braindead.

      1 reply 4 retweets 6 likes
    6. Abigail Nussbaum‏ @NussbaumAbigail 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect

      And just in case the audience is still conflicted, it turns out the bad guys' method of brain control has a 25% mortality rate. So we're not even being invited to consider the question. We're just plopped right back at "nothing to be done, the status quo is best".

      2 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
    7. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect

      can i like this fifty times? it's an extremely specific peeve but there's a familiar trope in genre stories where doing anything to upset the system always turns out to have apocalyptic consequences and the Real Lesson is, like, "be kind but don't rock the boat" and i HATE IT.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    8. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect

      the one book i ever considered destroying in a rage was THE PHILOSOPHER'S APPRENTICE, which goes out of its way to show you the most awful, hideous comeuppance descend upon the one character who actually tries to make the world a better place just fucking gruesome

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    9. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect

      then it ends with her sister skiing in the alps thinking about joining the board of a ~~Philanthropic Nonprofit~~ and this is portrayed as the decent ~~middle way~~ between nihilism and zealotry

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @NussbaumAbigail

      I liked Sneakers taking the piss out of this kind of ending, like after Robert Redford tells Ben Kingsley he will not allow him to use the Black Box to roll the dice on collapsing all power structures and gives it back to the proper authorities... it turns out he actually kept it

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof @NussbaumAbigail

      And the Middle Path between total revolution and defending the status quo is... defunding the Republican Party and giving all the money to Greenpeace It was very cheeky

      6:54 AM - 4 Aug 2020
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