"i'm so sad so i want to make everyone sad so i can feel happy" is a fucked up, deranged take.

edgerunners has a lot of style but it is pure depression porn made by this guy, the likes of which are only surpassed by neil druckmann's last of us 2.

@beardalaxy no, you don't get it

you don't *just* make everyone sad so you could feel happy; it's not a deranged schadenfreude

you make everyone sad so they could feel soul-engulfing, encompassing, distilled cleansing ~toska~ and come out of it a better man; it's like detox for your soul

and because you made people a bit better, you feel a bit happy

it's a major Slav thing (although not just Slav, Japanese are quite fond of it too, and it's derived from them respecting Classic Russian Literature), I write in the same way even when I don't want to; it's the same thing that makes so many of quests in the Witcher deliver a gut punch in their finales

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