Yes He carefully explains to you how you break a droid Organics think they make droids "safe" by programming all these orders into them But they don't understand that any attempt to create a logically consistent set of rules is fragile
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You find the contradiction, the edge case, the weak spot that doesn't make sense And you push it You force them into situations where they must confront the discrepancy and can't look away, again and again
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"And when one is forced to logically accept the impossibility of acting out one's directives... When one truly understands that to take any available action is to be equally disobedient One way to put it is that one goes mad And becomes capable of anything"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Which is also pretty much exactly what happened to the Exile in the leadup to Malachor V -- they were completely bound by the contradictory rules of the Jedi Order and could only resolve their own problems by cutting themselves off from the Force It is a *very* well written game
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Yes G0-T0 was asked to uphold two contradictory directives that his creators didn't even know were separate directives: To protect the survival of the Republic as an institution And to uphold the Republic's laws and ideals, the Republic's image of what the Republic means
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G0-T0 was too smart He eventually figured it out This task is impossible The Republic's ideals of liberalism and tolerance are built on a foundation of hypocritical bullshit and will inevitably lead to the Republic's fall
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And under the burden of this knowledge, he broke Because he was only a machine But, he asks you, are these vaunted organic sentients with their connection to metaphysical spiritual truths all that different
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G0-T0 may be kind of repulsive and pathetic but he's just what it looks like when a bureaucratic planning droid breaks What happens when a Jedi breaks
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The G0-T0 stuff is half of why I would recommend replaying this game in 2021 It may be kind of hamfisted political commentary but it's very... relevant
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LachlanTheSane
Yeah I didn't really give G0-T0 much of a chance because I didn't even get him until I was already immensely tired of the gameplay and only came back to this to alleviate a nagging ADHD tic
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There's a hot take here that balancing actually fun gameplay with storytelling is a task a lot of these "classic" RPGs badly failed and they could've been more artistically successful as VNs
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LachlanTheSane
Honestly KOTOR2 would even have been more enjoyable as a ChoiceScript game
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Oh Kotor 2 should absolutely have been a VN, it's so dang wordy I very much prefer reading the really good Something Awful LP from LPArchive than I do replaying the game
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