My big takeaway is that the author wants to conflate "centrism" with "gray morality" and thus ends up with a wholly incoherent thesis.
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I feel like there's a case to be made, if not an ironclad one, that going to the lengths Undertale does to advocate for saving the lives of child-murderers who in fact seek death is a kind of centrism
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @tinolqa
the Golden Ending of Undertale is absolutely an OCD scrupulosity power fantasy where you can make all your friends be friends and fix everything with knowing the exact thing to say and do and can always go back and fix your mistakes
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It's a random example for me to fixate on but I do remember the creator of The Cat Lady explicitly saying the Golden Ending of that game is non-canon (it's extremely unlikely for you to get it without savescumming) and the Normal Ending is the unequivocally the True Ending
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Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta and
The version of the story where you inevitably fucked up at some point and this had consequences is the real story The Golden Ending is a fantasy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta and
It rubs it in in a way that makes this clear, too, like not only do you succeed at everything you tried to do in the game but the core motivating event of one of the characters having cancer is just undone, it spontaneously goes into remission and disappears
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
I want a golden ending of more games
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Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and
More mass effect 3 dlc where Shepard kills all the reapers and then all the reapers get reincarnated as himbo robots, and also jokers bones are fixed and also legion and thane come back
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Replying to @Cybren @BootlegGirl and
The original Roseanne had a Golden Ending and then stopped at the very last minute to berate the audience over their reaction to it and reveal what really happened Which is very indie gaming
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Whedon was a writer on that right? And he later went on to write the ending to Angel season 5 (along with Tim Minear), which is like my platonic ideal of endings
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Yes but the final season of Roseanne was Roseanne herself overriding everyone else and insisting on ending the show as a wish fulfillment fantasy for the characters
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Which the final few minutes of the very last episode suddenly turned into a bold, deep artistic choice I'd really love to see an oral history of how that happened
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