Dragon Age 2 - BioWare's Morally Grey Dilemma
Added 2024-12-11 22:21:23 +0000 UTC
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"With power to do anything, what you don't do says everything" . . . not as quippy as I would like, but it's the best I got.
Forgotten Walrus Entertainment
2024-12-12 23:56:11 +0000 UTCI think Knowing Better explains best why many* teachers are afraid to tell the truth: https://youtu.be/j4kI2h3iotA?si=Mmxfk_i1_LQzhUH4 *Some teachers are just genuinely conservative for tue same reasons there are conservative Trekkies: the white American (and often Apple techie) meritocracy of it all.
00m
2024-12-12 02:50:23 +0000 UTC8:53 and I thought the Incubators in Magical Girl Madoka were good at that sort of evil.
00m
2024-12-12 02:33:48 +0000 UTC7:40 minutes in and I’m glad this is the one Patreon I decided to keep after my rent made me have to unsubscribe to the rest.
00m
2024-12-12 02:31:10 +0000 UTC3:28 Blantant missed “For the Horde!” Opportunity here.
Masofuts
2024-12-12 02:09:14 +0000 UTCYeah, even as a teenager, I could tell that the 'evil' mages were individuals mostly reacting to oppression and the Templars were an organisation actively trying to construct a narrative to enforce and strengthen that oppression. *Especially* Meridith; unlike Orsino, she always has control and resources to spare, so whenever she asks for help, it always stank of trying to trick you into siding with her by only showing you the cherry-picked worst examples. Huh. I didn't realise that Hawke was meant to become the recurring Main Character, but Inquisition and Veilguard do both make a lot more sense that way. Also, Carver joins the Templars if you don't bring him to the Deep Roads, apparently his answer to insecurity is to decide with no preamble to join the organisation with a legal right to murder any mage they feel like, such as 3/4 of his immediate family!
Edranair
2024-12-11 23:58:52 +0000 UTCDragon Age's biggest failing continues to try and paint issues as morally grey that are actually morally reprehensible!
Roy Thero
2024-12-11 23:53:54 +0000 UTCThe "mass incarceration is always wrong" idea reminded me of the Exalted TTRPG setting. In it, humanity used to be oppressed by titans, beings the size of continents that each had an ecology of demons spawning from them. The titans were unimaginably cruel, so they got overthrown and imprisoned in the prison of their own flesh, along with all their demons, as an alternative to just being killed outright. Sorcerers routinely summon those demons to use as their slaves. A good deal of the fandom for that game doesn't see any of this as a moral problem, but if you do look at how the demons are portrayed, they are pretty human-like, at least the lower order ones...
ThePiachu
2024-12-11 23:49:17 +0000 UTC
