@chaosprime I just finished Player of Games and I feel sad.
@lalanl My take is that Gurgeh was sent to murder Azad because 1) Azad bad 2) as therapy. With these priorities not incomparably weighted.
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@chaosprime so now Chiark, which was boring before, now feels more like home because it's doesn't have the conflict he ended up hating? -
@lalanl Kinda? I dunno that he wound up hating conflict so much as that his drive to conquer and possess became less shiny when he had a… -
@lalanl …chance to see where it goes. So the lack of ability to express that is no longer alienating him from Chiark. -
@chaosprime so he's back to Give me the games with no stakes, I don't want the suffering and fighting that come with playing for a reason
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@lalanl Decisionmaking involved being conducted by Minds we don't much meet (except slightly the Hub of his home orbital). -
@lalanl Yay's acceptance of him at the end signifies how he's now more psychologically aligned with Culture values. -
@lalanl But yeah, the idea of having a therapist who's technically and morally capable of sending me off to destroy a brutal civilization… -
@lalanl …as a way of working through my issues isn't the least fun thing I can think of.
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