• dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 hours ago

    for those that don’t know, this isn’t real and is a play on another meme:

    and to be clear, this meme is also not true, unfortunately Scott Cawthon is a “pro-life Christian” who has a history of donating to Republicans and right-wing movements:

    https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/scott-cawthon-defends-anti-lgbt-donations-11578325/

    Scott Cawthon, the Houston-born/Austin-based creator of the hit horror game series Five Nights At Freddy’s, is a major donor to Republican politicians. Records from Open Secrets show that since 2015 he has made $42,204 in contributions, almost all of them to Republican candidates. The sole exception is former Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat, who he gave $2,500 in 2019 during the Democratic Presidential Primary. His other beneficiaries include Devin Nunes, Kevin McCarthy, John Cornyn, Ben Carson, and Donald Trump.

    apparently he retired after this controversy:

    https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/five-nights-creator-retiring-following-upset-over-political-donations

  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
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    Y’all ever notice how the goat mommy in Undertale is a child abuser? She hit a kid for trying to leave her.

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      The canonical story indicates that she’s in the wrong for obstructing the child’s liberty. She’s a good example of a villain with misguided motivations.

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        Yeah, I killed that asshole. I beat her up, then offered her mercy. She refused to stand down and let Me leave, so I killed her.

        I heard you can give her mercy by repeatedly pressing the “spare” button and dodging her attacks, but at that point, she doesn’t deserve it. Child-hitting kidnapper.

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          She actually will never finish the fight against you. You don’t have to dodge her attacks at a certain point because she curves them to intentionally miss. You’re of course welcome to interpret the game however you wish.

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            That’s not obvious when you’re a little kid who’s being attacked by someone bigger and older than you. When you’re a small child, all you know is that this woman is hitting you and it hurts.

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              You would not survive Rome.

              It’s either beat the shit out of that little shit, a little. Or someone else will beat them to death later.

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          SMH. A woman lights a child on fire one time and you call her an abuser. /s

          (Though she’s technically not actually burning a child alive. Magic targets the soul, not the body.

          Which sounds way worse, but in-universe, soul damage is a complete nothing-burger - by which I mean it’s nothing after eating a single burger. Magic damage is trivial to heal and doesn’t actually cause harm unless you hit 0 HP, which Toriel actively avoids doing to the player during that fight.)

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            Since children heal so quickly, beating them must be less unethical than beating up adults! According to that logic, anyway

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              Listen, Toriel is hundreds of years old and shouldn’t be judged by modern standards of morality. Back in the day, taking a child down into the basement and dropping an inferno on them was a perfectly acceptable method of instilling discipline!

              (Again, /s)

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              23 hours ago

              Not only is that not what they were arguing, it’s a video game, it’s not real

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              I haven’t played the game, but it really sounds like you’re taking it way too seriously. Methinks you need to chill.

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                I think Undertale taught a generation of queer kids some messed up values when it comes to abuse, and that’s part of why we have so much abuse in our community that goes unopposed.

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                  I don’t know. Earlier today I found a bug in my house and took it outside, away from the cats and presumably towards whatever it eats or wants to bang. Am I really any different from Toriel? Nothing gives me the right to tell it where to be; I’m only doing what I think is best for a creature less intelligent than myself.

                  The thing I like about Undertale vs something like Steven Universe is that the kind of pacifism being advocated isn’t one of passive forgiveness, but a stubborn unwillingness to accept what one disagrees with. And also the fact that the villains have very reasonable concerns regarding the need to defend themselves from humans rather than just actually being Nazis or abusive parents. It’s not a 1:1 analogy for real life and can’t be applied to every situation, but I think the idea of simply saying no and refusing to comply is a practical strategy in parts of life.

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      Average soulism post?

      No, the moralized passivity is the application of lib values. It’s the same mindset that promotes that firearms as a selfdefense/deterrent against violent firearm users is bad.