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It's funny, I think my dad, who made decisions about what media I was allowed to consume as a kid, went through the following two decades of game narrative discourse in like two days when my brother gave me the original X-Wing and TIE Fighter as gifts
DAD, DAY ONE: Ellie can't play either game because she'll be desensitized to killing
DAD, DAY TWO: Ellie can play X-Wing since you're the good guys in that and the war is just
DAD, DAY THREE: Ellie, you have to also play TIE Fighter so you don't dehumanize the other side
DAD, DAY TWO: Ellie can play X-Wing since you're the good guys in that and the war is just
DAD, DAY THREE: Ellie, you have to also play TIE Fighter so you don't dehumanize the other side
I'm serious, this actually happened
It of course backfired by turning me into an Empire fangirl bc TIE Fighter was just BETTER
(it was also a significant reversal from a couple of years earlier when my uncle asked me if my favorite color was red or blue, I said red without thinking, and he got me a red lightsaber as a present and my dad freaked out, worried I would become evil I guess)
I don't think he knew I didn't know the question was about lightsabers and just preferred red, abstractly, to blue
I'm not honestly sure what 9 year old me would have said to "do you want a red or blue lightsaber toy"
I'm not honestly sure what 9 year old me would have said to "do you want a red or blue lightsaber toy"
