Perfectly executed character, the ultimate personification of one of the game’s central themes: “correctness”
He pretty much spits facts when you ask about his motivations, he correctly identifies the true drivers of the problems you navigate through the game, his actions were, broadly, “correct.” But in a vacuum, what is his correctness worth? DE as a whole is pretty stiffly critical towards the need to be Right, especially if it comes at the expense of friendships and human relationships. After all, internalizing communism in the game makes you into a “very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth” who is still miserable.
I could go for ten more paragraphs about this, like the irony of his title of “deserter” despite him being one of the only people left who still holds on to the cause of Scientific Communism (he has deserted society instead), or how he’s part of the game’s indictment of the romantic idea of the “eternal vigil.” But I’ll restrain myself so that Kim won’t have to clear his throat at me.
I don’t mean it like “don’t be informed,” just that being correct is not inherently productive, like the game is telling you to at least try and take part in the society that you know to be tragically out of balance. (The game wants you to take Matt Christman’s grill pill)
Perfectly executed character, the ultimate personification of one of the game’s central themes: “correctness”
He pretty much spits facts when you ask about his motivations, he correctly identifies the true drivers of the problems you navigate through the game, his actions were, broadly, “correct.” But in a vacuum, what is his correctness worth? DE as a whole is pretty stiffly critical towards the need to be Right, especially if it comes at the expense of friendships and human relationships. After all, internalizing communism in the game makes you into a “very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth” who is still miserable.
I could go for ten more paragraphs about this, like the irony of his title of “deserter” despite him being one of the only people left who still holds on to the cause of Scientific Communism (he has deserted society instead), or how he’s part of the game’s indictment of the romantic idea of the “eternal vigil.” But I’ll restrain myself so that Kim won’t have to clear his throat at me.
Was he a deserter or was he deserted 💅
He called my sad song about a little church REACTIONARY okay? Not cool
I’d rather be miserable than clueless and miserable
I don’t mean it like “don’t be informed,” just that being correct is not inherently productive, like the game is telling you to at least try and take part in the society that you know to be tragically out of balance. (The game wants you to take Matt Christman’s grill pill)