Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Aldurin]

She already enslaved the salamanders, she has no need for turtles (no matter how cute they are).

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Geminex

Yyyyeah, she's really going through with her 'wreck the game' attitude, isn't she? I don't think she's evil as such, but she knows something that we don't.

She doesn't need to know too much more than we do already; it's not like a huge secret that the game itself is pretty fuckin' evil. What with "murder an entire planet" as a system requirement and all.

[Geminex]

Y'think that's it? But it creates an entire universe as well, when done right.
Doesn't that cancel out, a bit? I wouldn't have thought that the game's inherently evil. Or if it is, we don't know it yet.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Lamest possible twist: It was all just a dream.Turns out everything was just a game all along. The kids were having the times of their lives and the trolls don't even exist, because they're part of the game. I know I'm not the first one to throw that theory around, and knowing Hussie it's very unlikely, so I have no idea why I'm even saying this.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Geminex

Y'think that's it? But it creates an entire universe as well, when done right.
Doesn't that cancel out, a bit? I wouldn't have thought that the game's inherently evil. Or if it is, we don't know it yet.

I'm going to go ahead and say that whatever activity you're engaged in, if it involves brutally and casually murdering an entire planet full of people, it's evil, and pretty much no amount of balance is gonna make that not-evil.

I realize that I'm being completely unreasonable in refusing to agree to a compromise that considers other perspectives, vis a vis murdering the world.

EDIT: And man that's even before you take into account that the game creates within itself a bunch of sentient beings who exist for literally no purpose other than to murder each other, not even for any really major reason, just sort of as like, background noise.

[Geminex]

That'd be horrible. Seriously, that ending? After that buildup? That'd be to 8-bit theatre what 8-bit is to normal stories.

I think what Rose knows pertains to the origin of the game. And the consequences of losing.

Edit:

I realize that I'm being completely unreasonable in refusing to agree to a compromise that considers other perspectives, vis a vis murdering the world.

Okay, usually you seem pretty cool, but now you're just being a dick. Seriously.

Besides, if you want that argument, fine. The new universe would also be filled with life. And, y'know, the old one too, after a few centuries. Lotta death, yeah. But hell, this is a universe we're talking about. Massive spans of time. Those people would have died anyway, eventually. It's not nice, certainly. And on a human scale of measurement, horrible and unforgivable. But on a universal scale, the end result will be, greater variety, greater joy, greater life. Two universes for the price of some death. That so bad?

Edit2: Mind you, not saying that it's good. But I don't think 'good' and 'bad' apply to the game.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Geminex

Okay, usually you seem pretty cool, but now you're just being a dick. Seriously.

Nah man, you're a pretty long way from seriously.

Trust me.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Geminex

Okay, usually you seem pretty cool, but now you're just being a dick. Seriously.

No, he's not. He's actually being quite polite and reasonable. You're taking an argument over a webcomic too seriously and getting personally offended that someone doesn't automatically agree with you. Knock it off.

Anyway, my money's on the Thorns of Oglogoth driving her mad. Hearing the whispers of nameless old gods and wielding power drawn from them is pretty much never healthy under any circumstances.

[Wigmund]

Or maybe she's pissed because the Trolls pestering her now is Eridan and his incessant whining.

Also, the structure she blew up looks like a temple - maybe it's the home of LOLAR's denizen.

[Fifthfiend]

SO IT'S CLEAR my remark earlier that Gems objected to was not meant as a personal dig against Gems or his viewpoint or really anything to do with this conversation at all and I'm sorry that it came across that way.

It was meant more as a dig at like... I don't even know, someone entirely other than Gems in some entirely different conversation somewhere that I don't even remember, or maybe just the general tendency of many people to get on other people's nuts for being ~unreasonable~ or ~not willing to compromise~ about fairly strongly delineated moral issues. I was probably thinking of Muslims building mosques or something.

ANYWAY the point is I thought it was clear it wasn't directed at Gems since I don't know what I'd be directing it at him for since he's like, never actually said anything like that, but I probably could have made it clearer.