none of the moral gutpunches of TLOU2 are landing with me Every. single. one of them, pure catharsis The fact that the fashy bad guys all have names and lament each other when you leave their corpses for them? love it killing their dogs? love it fashy pregnant lady? big lol
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
It cuts both ways right "Every night I think about how much he suffered before the end... And I smile because he had it coming"
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Replying to @JerrySkold @arthur_affect
Whatever Joel had it coming for, it wasn't anything he actually did during TLOU1 He did do some highwayman shit prior to the events of that game but none of Abby's little Hitler youth would have had any idea about that
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
I think we have different views re: the last part of TloU1.
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Replying to @JerrySkold @arthur_affect
The thing where he crossed the country, including through territory that was hazardous *specifically because of the Fireflies* to deliver them a child, and they not only screwed him out of payment but planned to kill him for it?
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @JerrySkold
It is implied they would've paid him and let him go if he hadn't gotten all pissy about Marlene's decision to vivisect Ellie
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That said, Marlene pretty obviously knew that he wouldn't react that way if she told him the truth about it so her decision to come clean with him was pretty flawed from a utilitarian, tactical standpoint
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It all comes apart because even the Architects of Omelas feel the guilt and feel the need to unburden themselves from it in this nagging neurotic way
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(The real price of Omelas and the reason the city's utopia can't last isn't just that the Child exists but that everyone has to *know* about it and actively choose to accept it)
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It's the thing with the Grand Inquisitor in Brothers Karamazov "Only we, who guard the mystery, will be unhappy" The idea that by deceiving people about the oppression and suffering their world is built on you're doing them a favor
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The noble lie, Plato's Republic, etc
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