User:RD/9k/Berdly & dialectical materialism (Q63,92)

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6392. Berdly demonstrates dialectical materialism -> this sounds funny or like I'm trolling but I'm totally serious with this. in Undertale, a simple and obvious theme of violence in console RPGs is introduced: medieval times or not, violence against other populations is horrifying. but buried in that are some subtler statements that are probably unintended. let's say you're Sans. how could you ever know if the human or if the player-god is actually going to be your friend or is going to turn around and betray you? the game is a fun little thing from the player's perspective but absolutely horrifying from the beginning if you were one of the monsters. this fact of the game world immediately becomes less obvious the second you enter the game and start playing it, thinking, oh, everything will be okay because I can just decide to stop it. for the monsters it's not okay, they have no power over your mind or "ideas". you are uncontrollable. you are a separate uncontrollable agent.
      in Deltarune, there's Berdly. and in Deltarune, there's the Weird Route. as you go through the game, Berdly can actually feel different and unrelatable, like he actually is a separate person with a separate ideology that you can't control. and this is what makes it tempting to use your powers to kill him and get him out of your way in a way that you wouldn't feel with any of the characters in Undertale. specifically by including Berdly, Deltarune is much closer to the way violence works in reality. it demonstrates the dialectical-materialist concept of people actually existing in the form of free-floating factions that have different ideologies (including but not limited to class ideologies) and which physically chunk-compete against each other and destroy each other through existing daily and existing faster and existing over the top of each other. Berdly demonstrates dialectical materialism.
      note: some propositions are violet just because violet is the color of my own philosophy and I have no idea if anybody else said them or not. if you find a quote which is saying very nearly exactly the same thing as this proposition without mentioning Undertale or Deltarune thanks to being written before 2015, you can change it to the swatch color of that quote.

Ideology codes

1. S–83 (pronounced 83. (S))[ML] [S] (pronounced (ML) (S):) 83ML / dialectical materialism1:-1:-1
2. Z–92 (pronounced 92. (Z)) [MX] [Z] (pronounced (MX) (Z):) 92MX / meta-Marxism1:-1:-1

• MX onto Fy
• ML onto Fy