something that unreasonably pisses me off is the use of “genocide” for the yandere simulator “kill everyone in the school” ending.
So… that’s not what genocide is. But what makes me upset about it is the fact it’s literally just copied from undertale without pedodev understanding what it means 🥹
genocide isn’t just “killing a lot of people”
undertale’s genocide ending is genocide because you, a human, a being with objective systematic and physical power over monsters, enters the underground, the “home” which they were trapped inside of, and begins slaughtering their race. You don’t just kill in self defense with genocide, you sit in areas for hours and hours looking for and hunting down each and every creature until every single person is ground into dust. And you do it over and over in town after town after city until every soul you can reach is found and ripped apart. Not only that, but undertale itself is a commentary on violence, as contrast to yandere sim that was originally meant to play off the violence for laughs (not that yandere sim is bad for this, just that the two games have different themes). Undertale’s genocide is a commentary on genocide. You can never go back.
it’s abundantly clear that yandev just copied the word cause he thought it sounded edgy. Especially with the numerous references to undertale within the game.
Regardless, Ayano’s violent acts are not genocide, and I would’ve preferred some other term like “annihilation” or “massacre” or something. Genocide is the act of killing or terrorizing a particular ethnic/racial group or religion; it is an act of war. What Ayano does is murder everyone in her school. What Ayano is doing is a massacre. Ayano’s killings do not have a racial or religious supremacy/discrimination as a motive. Genocide is also structural (as in, the state facilitates it) with the intention to make the victim’s lives worse overall, ie the Jewish ghettos, or in undertale’s case, the underground. And it is a product of war.
Obviously, undertale checks all the boxes, whereas yansim checks none of them. cause yandev copied it without knowing what it meant. I also think the word massacre would’ve been more unique and honestly significantly edgier tbh
