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@coded_artist

@AryanSwastika the people who followed Jesus no longer followed Judaism. that was kind of the whole point of His teachings.

@Alex it's also a problem where the emotional narrative isn't compelling enough and it also devalues the impact of the first game's. because of that, it's a lot harder to gloss over issues in the logical narrative. your attention isn't drawn to the emotional aspect of it, or if it is then it isn't in a way that distracts you from other mistakes. it amplifies them. kind of like how if you're watching a movie and the story just isn't good, you start nitpicking things harder and not just with the story, but things like the shot continuity too.

@alyx I LIED

@arc have fun!

@Alex there is a reason that one of the most common pieces of advice for fledgling writers is "write what you know" though. i once was proofreading a friend's book and the whole premise was based upon taking a trip to russia that turned out poorly. the plane crash lands in an abandoned tundra and they have to find out how to survive. the plane ride was only 2 hours because this dude had never been on a plane and so didn't really understand how long it would take to get somewhere. then, at some point they find a village and it is thematically closer to a scandinavian village rather than a russian village. it's things like that where, sure you can suspend disbelief, but at a certain point it breaks the immersion.

@Alex it's probably a case of the last of us writers exceling in emotional narrative but not logical narrative, and so the logical narrative affects the emotional narrative in a way they didn't intend. this isn't the only example of that either, it's extremely evident in the first game too. the difference is that the first game's emotional narrative is something that a much wider audience can identify with and it was very sincere.

@tomie that's actually really funny lol maybe you're right xD

@disorder_lupus have fun :)

@Mr_Snowkell she goes faster because of the flames

@cowanon oh shit

@Tsone @kilostere @ninja8tyu counterpoint: kyoresu
Albeit extreme

I'd like to ask Grok about the moral dilemma present in the second game as well with Ellie's decision to not kill Abby at the end. I personally think the whole "revenge bad" thing is stupid because in the end Abby gets what she wanted and Ellie loses everything, despite both of them participating in revenge.

Then there's the trans dude or whatever, who I think solely exists as a way for the kind of people Naughty Dog wants playing their games to attach to Abby in order to justify her being a good person. Just like how they showed Abby's dad freeing animals from hunting traps. The whole thing just felt so fucking cheap man... but that's a different topic.