#redshit woes

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A Master’s Thesis for a university no less

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Yep, I’ve seen that!

at least that people got some dedication, I nearly died when I wrote mine but it wasn’t for shitposting so maybe that made it even more tedious lol

But I’d say, how can you even write a Thesis about something as empty as Fodlan? I think the writer mentionned how Supreme Leader didn’t attack civilians but... while we don’t see her do it, Ashe mentions they’re starving, Baldo’n’Waldi must come from somewhere (the experiments started in Remire, before the War, but obviously to be used for said war in, basically, Supreme Leader’s maternal territories!) and I guess the religious people fleeing the Empire or not bothering to send letters to their friends who don’t hear about them anymore since the war started must have been busy Zumba’ing with Rhea in the 5 stars Enbarr resort.

As someone from SPE (!) mentionned, the Fodlan games take explicit care not to have anyone seriously challenge her beliefs of criticise her, or give spotlight to her main, self-perceived, nemesis who... well, is either fridged, exists off-screen or gives infodumps before dying.

Which makes any discussion about a “Just War” completely moot - Watsonian wise, especially if you take Fodlan as this entity functionning under the Crust System - same, Doylist wise, with any comparisons with real world Conventions (iirc OP mentionned that one of they juries asked if taking a dragon prisoner could be considered a war crime or something like that lol) because, hey, it’s a video game basically centered around a gameplay mechanic of depleting a red unit’s HP bar by hitting them with a weapon.

This is basically a really good shitpost which shows a lot of dedication - and that’s the kind of stuff fandom thrives for (remember zigludo chan sama senpai’s wiki page?) !

but as a serious/discourse/meta piece...

It’s basically the same redshit 10k words, with a bit more formatting and no word limit.

I mean, I used the search engine for “nabatean” and found nothing, and I think you can’t valably discuss Supreme Leader’s motives, ignoring this 

“You are a child of the goddess. You must not be allowed power over the people!“

part of her reasoning to fight against the Church.

Not wanting to give that chamber pot any credit, but if they sprout heinous arguments to support their fave, imo, it’s basically because even the members of that hellpit noticed Supreme Leader’s, uh, fondness for Nabateans as a species, and since she can’t do anything BaD or be wrong, it means the species are BaD.

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As you said just war theory isn't really relevant in current international law isn't really relevant anymore and the UN sees no war justified unless it's in self-defence (like Ukraine fighting back). If the person genuinely wanted to use just war theory you would expect them to use sources like Aristotle, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and Hugo Grotius, not contemporary sources like the Red Cross.

IIRC the "Just War" theory had a resurgence during the early 2000s, but, well...

As for the sources, that's why I don't think this essay was an academical essay but felt closer to a 10k words redshit "essay", where you cite random sources, no sources, or at times, Wikipedia (Wiki is useful to find sources, but then you should read the article sourced, not the abstract Bob wrote on the wiki article!).

I still think discussing "Just War" regarding Fodlan is as pointless as discussing sewer facilities in Magvel, because the games aren't interested in depicting those topics in detail.

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Ending the year with a bang !

:)

:')

Place your bets, after 2023 and "maybe genocide not BaD" and "nothing wrong with imperialism" what are we going to get in 2024 ?

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Redshit is shitting on Fates again, day ending in y! Why can't they make themselves useful for once and point out all the problems with Three Douses?

Sunk cost fallacy anon!

Redshit thrived for the last 5 years with Fodlan content, you can't just suddenly barge in and ask, if the game was so well written, why the fuck didn't Thales remove Nemesis from the freezer to get rid of the pointy ears and Supreme Leader!

Or why Kronya didn't put a hit on Rhea/Seteth/Flayn during the mock battles, instead of gutting Jerry!

Shitting on Fates is a stale meme, I didn't like the game and its story myself, but you won't catch me shit on its plot at regular intervals because I want to prop something in comparison.

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Now maybe I’m not one to talk since I did write a college paper on video game characters, but that essay feels so… empty? It reminds me of someone in another fandom who diagnosed a character they didn’t like with hisitrionic personality disorder.

(For the record, my paper was about character design and use of contrasting colour. Mario & Luigi we’re big ones, as was Dante & Vergil, and Superman’s brighter colour-scheme compared to Batman’s more muted one, but I also made use of the Christmas Cavs archetype)

Ooh, your paper sounds interesting, I never really thought about the contrast in colours, but now that you mentioned it, there are reasons why characters have a certain palet in a media and why, idk, "red" doesn't universaly means "enemy unit" but in some media is the color of the hero!

Back to the Supreme Essay...

Well, it's an essay about a game where the devs forgot to hire a continuity guy, and the commonly accepted reason as for why Thales didn't nuke Supreme Leader, Rhea and all of the Nabateans during the Gronder mock battle is because the Agarthans are crap cartoon vilains.

Discussing this game seriously will obviously lead to emptiness, or 60k words of projection but that's basically a fanfic at this point lol.

A redshit post or a redshit essay is still a redshit form of wank, and sometimes you just see behind the tiny veil of "I'm just a normal fan who loves this game/thing so much" that the 10k words using "big" words 75% of the readers don't understand like "feudalism" (special mention to an admirer who felt like they had to tell me, under a shitpost, that feudalism was BaD. Hope you're doing okay !) or "caste system" are just a pretense to give some sort of aura of authority to that fan.

"XYZ wrote 10k words about that topic, that means they thought a lot about it and if they managed to develop their argument that well, I don't need to read it to know they have a point."

"ABC wrote an essay about why PZM is true? Well, it's an essay, it's a serious work, so they must be right!"

I am not saying this is why the person who wrote the Supreme essay did it or anything of the sort - however, after seeing certain patters in this fandom from people who pretend to be BNF and spending a certain time on redshit, I can draw some conclusions.

Nonsensical and shiposting redshits are the most welcoming ones where you're just here to have a quick fun and maybe laugh at a meme or two.

iamverysmart and the other redshits were people take themselves very seriously and exchange in 10k words essay form are a pain to navigate, and from what I could see, the atmosphere there is either toxic, or subdued because you have BNF and their doxa (and armies of downvoters I guess?) and you can't really argue against the flow.

Now, I'm not saying you can't write 10k words essays, for fandom!, about characters, hell I made this blog to rant and nerd about my favorite characters nearly 10 years ago, and sometimes the ranting goes a bit overboard!

But Redshit isn't the place to exchange in 10k words essay form and writing in an essay form doesn't make the thesis supported or the argument or the fan who wrote it themselves "better" than the one who is receiving it/disagrees with it.

I mean, in 5 words or in 15k words, a headcanon is a headcanon lol

But in an era of discourse - especially since redshit encourages and welcomes those kinds of interactions with the karma counter - empty essays are sadly not that uncommon.

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This banner is disappointing, but hopefully we can always count on devoted fans to make everything better :

Supreme Leader devoted fan + Lizard!Billy rejection + calls M!Billy the wrong Billy lol

Beautiful !

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I saw an analysis on Rhea that claims that "CF is a dignified ending for Rhea, and an unequivocally happy ending for humanity". Thoughts?

That's so "redshit 2019 edition" anon lol

idk about you, but I don't count as "dignified" a death where your skull is broken open, and blood oozes from your head while the people who killed you - with the help of the mother you've been crying for - are hugging each other.

As for the Happy ending for humanity...

Given how Billy returns to the "dead fish" stare during the last close-up, I don't think it's supposed to be that happy, especially compared to the other endings where Billy either smiles, rescues someone or leads another someone to the ligh.

but a world without evil lizards means a world where humanity is happy, bcs supreme leader said so

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i really wonder why reddit refuses to acknowledge how the sieros in heroes isn't the serios of crimson flower ?

Because

1/redshit

2/that'd imply a certain part of the fandom actually pause to study the character without bursting after 2 seconds in "i'm not going to read anything about someone ruling a fascist theocracy"

3/acknowledging Rhea used hair dye means acknowledging the Nabatean Genocide and how she was a victim and actually, despite all of her power, afraid of humans around, shooting a bullet the size of a skyscrapper in some headcanons

4/you can't reach any other conclusion than Rhea BaD on a certain sub