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i think it's cool that ffxiv is a bullshit goofy fantasy video game and it has better character writing than 100% of self-important pain porn games with their gritty realism
like elidibus sputtering to a stop and having to say out loud "of course i can't stop doing this because i may not remember why i'm doing it but all i remember is saying i'd do it so if i stop doing it it's like i'm dead and all of this pain is for nothing" is the realest shit
that's how trauma works
that alienation from not just other people
but your own identity
your own ability to have an identity
is what makes trauma so terrifying and isolating
it's what makes other people so cruel to the traumatized
because it's easy to see them as inhuman
that alienation from not just other people
but your own identity
your own ability to have an identity
is what makes trauma so terrifying and isolating
it's what makes other people so cruel to the traumatized
because it's easy to see them as inhuman
you could shoot a hundred arrows through a hundred gruff dads in a hundred brown video games about who gives a shit and not get anything remotely that realistic about what it is to suffer the loss of what makes you who you are
and that's
pretty cool
and that's
pretty cool
also ffxiv's community should learn something from that
maybe
maybe
also sorry for the spoiler on The Themes but just
holy shit
holy shit
