psycholonials ch 7 speculation
no choice until chapter 9 Assumes that the piece is going to play some trick; that we can go back and choose in the past scenarios, or that there's a bigger thing to follow, or that by choosing, Z gets to go untouched by the narrative and it ends. it's reasonable to assume!
but if we assume that the story is self contained, has no time travel? this is the last real chance for a choice, I think. haven't the interludes all been at the start of even chapters?
psycholonials ch 7 speculation
I would hold back moral judgment if Z's enemies list only contained political/power enemies. but the kill order will apply to a lot of people who really suck and should probably be hurt but who, fundamentally, she has personal beef with, rather than actually being obstacles at this stage
psycholonials ch 7 disk horse and spoilers
i like to occasionally self harm by seeing what Twitter thinks of psycholonials. I don't actually see at much hate as I would expect! maybe the haters are spelling it psych*lonials or something tho.
but
i did see the take "Z could've just been a stable anarchist clown"
have these gentlethems ever seen a revolution?
psycholonials ch 7 speculation
Z has not released whim's touch on the phone. The button has not been sent. Quiet has just helped me confirm that most UI's don't send the message until you press the button and release it while still on the button. If she slides her finger off of the send button then releases, the message will not send.
we absolutely have a decision point coming on this exact matter.
psycholonials ch 7 speculation
I want us to have a choice: send or not send. It will be the first choice. Not send doesn't abort the mission entirely -- Z says "delay", and edits the list; removes the personal beef, limits it to political enemies. Threats to the revolution, not targets for revenge. Sends it again. Sends a single skull.
psycholonials ch 8 livetrill
this is the most factual literary analysis i have ever read ( @swampvendor if you want spoilers)
psycholonials ch 8 ide/theory
the trailer's "this does not actually happen in the game" is clearly referring to hussie meeting post malone and icp on the metal gear solid 5 oil rig and being given god powers by kojima -- but i'm wondering if it also refers to the ascension to godhood that's been promised to Z?
psycholonials post story emotional impact
Remember how I kept saying "Z is literally my ex best friend Claire"?
That is still true
And partly because I'm projecting the fact that I wanted to Abby her.
I loved her dearly. I probably still do. If she hadn't sent me away completely, I'd still be at her side.
I was too direct; told her exactly how far I'd support her. But it came off as a threat, because that's how it works, when you're fucked up like her.
I didn't do wrong by doing that, tho.
psycholonials post story lessons
I'm thinking also about the implications on revolution; how Z said that the principles are good, but that clout chasers and power hungry folk exist in every era and will always ruin it. And thinking about how that explicitly doesn't mean "don't try", because Z was still right to destroy the US government.
Thinking about how the problem isn't communism, the problem is the revolution.
psycholonials post story lessons
"communism is good but people will always ruin it" isn't a new revelation. But
a) I don't think that's quite what Z said. I don't think it's quite what the story was telling us. I think that the meaning is more complex than that.
2) Even if I'm wrong about that, this was a new story about that message. And a good story. And that wasn't the whole heart of it -- the heart was also the emotional core, the lesbians. And it also had the new Lore for ya.
psycholonials ch 9 livetrill
(also it can happen to anyone and Z is not simply Hussie's self-insert, this is an important lessont hat exists now,e tc)