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pochapal · 3 months ago

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had a migraine all day then sat in the shower for almost an hour rotating life is strange thoughts in my mind and now the headache's gone and i'm also mad

#:)#forgive the lisposting even after everything but like #i watched a letsplay of episode 1 of DE and ough. bad.#i think the consensus will end up being 'great lis game if you can overlook the chloe stuff' but these people would be Wrong #not just because d9 are worms for the 'pricefield is outdated bad queer rep by 2024 standards' line #but because deck nine as a whole just embarrassingly fails to understand the magic inherent to lis #their whole thing is critiquing post-bae ending as 'unrealistic'#because in the real world under this scenario yes there's no way a couple like max and chloe could actually exist #but this is a stupid rationalizing of a magical choice. max and chloe chose to pay the price of feeding their cruel world to the storm #and received the divine reward of total and permanent escape from the violence and hurt that governed their existence #the storm wins and that brings with it a cessation of everything narratively constraining the two - both good and bad #which explicitly includes the cycle of abandonment and loss that went from max to chloe to rachel to chloe back to max again #ANYWAY pricefield survives by exiting the real world stage left as the only way #this is a world where people like them can't exist. so for them to thrive they must therefore break the world #and anyone viewing the events of ep5 as straightforward 'big storm kills town and life will never be the same' misses the point hard #and tbh the same is apparent in lis2 as an inverse of lis1 #where max gains the power to choose to break the system that tormented her and her loved ones for good #sean is confronted with the inescapable mass of a bigger more institutional system that follows him no matter how far he runs #he will never break it or even dent it. but he can slip out of its jaws at the expense of never being able to return to it #lis1 and lis2 set a precedent of a choice between the world you know and the person you love #true colors meanwhile....does NOT do this. the world is not irredeemable or even kind of unpleasant in tc #bad things happen in haven springs but the game goes out of its way to attribute this to bad people acting individually #tc's final choices do not pit alex against her known reality. it turns something that could be systemic into something interpersonal #the choices are 'forgive a bad man or not' / 'live a cozy life in a cozy town or live a fun life on the road'#insipid and tepid and infinitely more 'grounded' as a cause-effect chain #in 'reality' max and chloe wouldn't get a happily ever after. in 'reality' sean never escapes america #in 'reality' alex is totally capable of living one of two pretty decent lives #max and sean's griefs are so powerful as to convince the audience to ask what worth there is in living in a world like that?#alex's grief is. mostly managed through emotional awareness and a decent support network #gabe dies and it's a condemnation of nobody except his killers. rachel and esteban spoke to the deep rot at the heart of the world

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