Krissy @BigFatFae@awoo.space

This is a good friday morning. I am absolutely brimming with positive energy

Hecked by a fox

Eeeee! @Mya did a silly and blushy thing for me!
https://awoo.space/media/wMl8bQOsg4VEBgzM8FU

@Kyna On a scale of one to ten... Fuck, there goes another scale ;3

You have no idea how much effort that took to get that to fit in 500 characters.

👨: Die, 👿, you don't belong in this 🗺!
🦇: It was not by my 🖐 that I was once again given flesh. I was brought here by 👨 who wish to pay me 💵.
👨: 💵? You steal 👨 👻, and make them your slaves!
🦇: The same could be said of all ✝.
👨: Your words are as empty as your 👻! 👨 😷 needs a 👼 such as you!
🦇: What is a 👨? (🍷 💥) A 😢 💩 of secrets! But enough talk! ⚔

@Thaminga Like... just having a warning at the beginning of the story, you know? Cause some trans women really dig that theme of humiliation as a coping mechanism. But without it, it just comes across as 'I'm a cis person fetishizing unclear gender' which >.<

Like, I absolutely get loving genderbending and I even get humiliation as a thing. But goddamn is that fucking uncomfortable for me as a trans woman. >.<

Last night when trying to go to sleep, found a kink story that looked promising. Weight gain and force feeding. Was going to be fun. Reading through, suddenly takes a trans character and outs them, referring to them from that moment on with male pronouns, having other characters refer to them as 'a sissy boy'. >.< Nope nope nope nope

Final day of waking up at 6am.

LB: Hottest damn take, goddamn, the rest of us can go home now

@Thaminga Basically, as hard as I'm being on the game, it's actually pretty good for what it is! But this is more to pump up UT than slam Spec Ops

@Thaminga I mean, it's actually pretty good overall. But it's an early entry into the self referential, and didn't have any contemporaries that had tackled this issue before. Undertale is one of the first, and it came out years after!

In UT... there are multiple creatures trying to kill you. Why? Why do you need to be pacifistic towards them?

This all comes back to the nature of DETERMINATION and the power of humans in this world. Every time they kill you, you just... aren't dead. You go back. You keep retrying. Literally, as long as you are determined to stay alive, you can not be killed. You are in ZERO danger. They try so hard because anything less dooms them to failure from the start.

In SO:TL, you are tasked with bombing targets on a screen with white phospherous, knowing full well it's horrendous, but not knowing that who you're targeting are civilians. But you can't just... run away and try not to do it. There are no other story paths, you either stop the experience, or continue. I cannot stress enough that this removes any sense of culpability from the experience. You are just along for the ride.

Did you kill Toriel? Well, maybe you haven't noticed yet, it's been pretty easy so far... Did you kill Papyrus? Maybe... you weren't paying attention. But the deeper in, the more it questions you, grills you, and tries to point towards your power. Sans, at the end, finally calls you out, explicitly pointing to how much power you have. Are you sure you WANT this? Do you CHOOSE this?

In SO:TL, you have no option but to do terrible things. Your options are either do it, or fail to progress. How can your decisions be bad if you aren't making them? It ultimately turns you into a spectator while commenting on you as if you were an actor.

Meanwhile, UT acknowledges you have power. It says "I know you can reset. You can try as many times as you like to do this." and every interaction in the story is cognizant of this.

One thing that I still really appreciate about UT was the story's explicit understanding and integration of player control. Something SO:TL and UT share is that they both make commentary on your actions as a player, and how you are complicit in the violence depicted. However, SO:TL takes a sort of... easy road. You have no other choice except not play the game. And given that it costs real world money? That's just a copout, I'm sorry.