Frustrated Furry on the cusp of self-awareness.
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What is this relatability bullshit that keeps popping up?
I had no problem playing games where people did not look like me, act like me, or talk like me appear in.
It's all about how to involve yourself in their lives and watch things play out in real time as you progress in the games.
You would think people who abso-fucking-lutely love putting themselves where they don't belong could appreciate that. But I guess doing exactly what they do is just too hard if you can't also change everything to suit your tastes.
Also the english translation got really fucked in this. Shame too, since it's exactly the kind of game I would enjoy.
It's the 'How would you feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?' question writ large.
As disturbing as it is to contemplate, as time has gone by, I've become more and more convinced that alot of mental capabilities I'd venture most people on here can pull off just aren't present in the population at-large.
Growing up, I had no issue reading about a protagonist radically different than myself; Fuck, I still re-read Dragonsong and Dragonsinger from Anne Macaffery because that shit is comfy as fuck, even though I am not a girl nor do I can about singing much.
It's why the NPC meme is so terrifying, and why people freaked out about it; the idea that there are degrees of consciousness, and not everyone has the same qualia basically makes society as a whole break down. It makes people demonstrably lesser in a way that can't be ignored.
The best way to get perspective is to find someone with 100IQ and realise about 1/2 the world population is at least as stupid or worse.
Because these people are mentally ill (but we all knew that already) and are completely unable to relate to anything that isn't openly about them or people exactly like them.
It's because their brains aren't fully formed, and they're often low IQ on top of having broken brains (asking if they didn't have breakfast yesterday, etc).
...and coached into narcissistic behaviour; common in circles of degeneracy as a coping mechanism for the suicide-tier shame they accumulate.
I actively dislike games that feature "relatable" me. I already relate to myself, I can "relate" to myself for free at any given moment. I want to experience the story of someone very much not myself.
And I am hardly alone there. The most popular characters in Starcraft 2 by mass community poll were Abathur, Alarak, and Alexei. A sociopathic bug, a religious zealot space-elf, and a depressed Russian zombie. The "relatable" characters couldn't even break top-8. People loved their very alien (pun intended) perspectives and worldviews, they didn't give a shit about Raynor and Kerrigan's little love story hiccups and "human" concerns. It's sci-fi, they wanted sci-fi concerns.
Problem is, these aphantasia types are loud, and insist on being part of the creation process even for things they'd never buy. "No character has a hangnail on their fourth toe of their right foot, I just can't identify with their experiences!"