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dandunn · 9 months ago

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There's something extremely 2024 about watching a play through of a certain game where a certain character makes a horrible, damaging but deeply HUMAN mistake, hurting someone they admired in the process.

And instead of the audience reacting with 'oh. this is a story about humans with flaws who can hurt each other without meaning to' they go:

"YEAH FUCK THAT CHARACTER HE SHOULD DIE HE SHOULD KNOW THAT HE'S DOING A BAD THING BECAUSE I KNOW HE'S DOING A BAD THING DIE NOWWW!"

This is a mistake I'm sure a lot of people have made, it's something that *I* have done, to possibly more than one person. And so seeing it all put in display as a narrative where people are calling for his head on a pike is so

#death of media literacy yadda yadda #not tagging the game bc it's hot right now but if you know you know #I said this earlier but media literacy is a whale fall and we are the crabs feasting on it #if you think you had good analysis skills I'm putting my hand on ur shoulder and saying no #No you don't #and neither do I #the creator of this fictional story got sent death threats btw

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