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My basic view of the Doctor as a character: I look at Lauds and Vespers, and I run screaming in the opposite direction. L&V is about the Doctor as both a PC and a fundamentally alien presence, something that puppeteers the world rather than acting within it. I focus on them as a character within the world who may have nothing to do with the player at times.

(Really, this is just “Feo hates postmodernism” on a smaller scale. I didn’t like the Who is Real event either.)

All of these people need better taste in video games.

In retrospect, the “Undertale Prime” post is dumb as hell. The idea behind the post is that pacifism in Undertale is stupid because it relies on your position as a player, while Frisk the character has every reason to fight back against people who try to kill him. But you’re not playing as Frisk! You’re explicitly playing as you, an entity beyond the Undertale universe who uses Frisk as an avatar. Sans directly asks whether you, as a godlike figure who controls the flow of time for Undertale’s characters, have a responsibility to them that Frisk doesn’t have.

To be clear, I dislike Undertale and think the meta stuff is dumb. But you need to at least engage with it if you’re going to criticize it.

David J. Prokopetz isn’t the death of art, but he is standing on the corpse and laughing.

This thought isn’t really going anywhere, but: the things I dislike about postmodernism can be divided into a much larger part and a much smaller part. The much larger part is metafiction. The much smaller part maps almost 1-to-1 with “things people quote or reference when they say Kill Six Billion Demons is awesome and everyone should read it.” Everything people want to promote about that series just rubs me the wrong way.

Arknights: does it really matter if the people in the painting are real? After all, none of the characters in this game are real.

Me:: it matters because I choose to suspend disbelief as part of the artist-audience contract and pretend your story has meaning until the curtain falls. Yes, it’s true that the characters aren’t real, but your story would be boring and pointless without the pretense your characters are ”real” during the story. If you drop kayfabe, then there’s no reason to feel emotion about all the death and suffering you clearly expect me to care about at other points in the story. You absolute tool.

(On the other hand, characters aren’t real when the curtain falls. So fans, please stop saying artists are sex offenders because of things they wrote their characters doing.)

This whole Homestuck thing about “meat or candy” reminds me of why Danganronpa pissed me off so much. There was a recurrent assumption that the reason you were playing the game was that you wanted to see young, attractive people get into sexually suggestive situations and/or get brutally murdered. Sometimes it mocked you or criticized you for this desire, other times it amped everything up in order to rub your nose in how you “wanted” this, and either way, it felt completely irrelevant to how I wanted to solve logic puzzles. Do I want meat or candy? I want to see you create according to your own interests, not try to extrapolate some version of me!