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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The modern day term for the particular kind of basement-dwelling shitposter G0-T0 is is a blackpilled accelerationist
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But yeah G0-T0 is just an inferior copy of Revan (as, arguably, is the Exile) KotOR 2's argument is that Revan's fall to the Sith was because when he made contact with the True Sith in the Unknown Regions and understood what they represented he broke
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He came to genuinely believe that the Dark Side was too powerful, inevitable That liberalism was weak and self-contradictory and predestined to devolve into fascism And the only way to fight was to try to manage the fall, to be the one in charge
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To make a Sith Republic so that when the Dark triumphed it would wear a familiar face, as a preferable option to the truly alien True Sith just wiping out everyone and everything he'd ever known A deluded quest, perhaps, but an understandable one
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Kreia's obsession with Revan's fall and how it both did and did not make sense - the logical paradox of defeating evil by succumbing to it, defeating what you hate by becoming it - broke her too Turned her into a genuine nihilist
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