• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    If it were me, and I had that reaction to a interactive story that so many other people got so many other different experiences from, I would explore that dissonance because it reveals something.

    Not saying “go play the game again” if you don’t like it you don’t like it, but I would consider thinking about how and why a dark but quirky and sometimes bleak-toned reading experience left so many other people feeling one way, and you another. I found it hilarious but also you have the choice in the story to view the bleak world as either a tragedy or a comedy and everything in between… do you feel that kind of agency in life or are you stuck in some way?

    Not asking for an answer, just queuing rhetorical questions I would ask myself in that position.

    • Captain Poofter@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      dude. i am 36 years old. i have experienced and enjoyed tons of dark humo. johnny the homicidal maniac was my bread and butter when i was 16. please don’t assume just because a stranger doesn’t like something you do it’s because they are uncultured or have narrow horizons. it comes across incredibly pretentiously