one day i'll strap a pedometer on

[sideways]

Me: I'm a fairly chill person when it comes to fandom stuff, it's fun but it's fiction and I- [sees discourse about the TLoU ending in the year 2023] [BURSTS INTO FLAME]

I don't actually think the world needs yet another essay on a video game ending that's been a source of ferocious analysis and debate for ten years now, but as I ruefully prop my aching feet up I have to concede that maybe just writing things down would be a better strategy than furiously pacing my hallway, arguing with strangers inside my head, for 45 minutes. Good grief.

(It's fine to debate the ethics of the choices made but the CONTEXT you have to couch it within the given CONTEXT.)

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[anneapocalypse]

Honestly I feel this without having played the game. 😂 Reminds me of no seriously every one of the Freelancers would have done far worse than kidnap an alien baby if it actually mean ending the war that came close to ANNIHILATING HUMANITY seriously the Covenant was WINNING do you understand how ABSOLUTELY FUCKED humans were right up until like the last year of the war

so yeah 🤣

[sideways]

ROFL aw man. Arguing ethics in RvB is even worse, though, at least TLoU has a consistent tone and consistent stakes.

...But yeah, in pretty much any situation where causing pain to one or two people may genuinely save All Of Everyone you can't cast the people trying to save All Of Everyone as no-nuance unethical bad guys just because the people they're hurting are your faves.