Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30937172-20181123192046/@comment-28707994-20191224052651

(Huge vent incoming! I can't bottle up my emotions any longer!)

When Undertale came out, I promised myself that I'd play Pacifist because I like helping people and being nice, even though I never got to afford the game to play myself. However, all those aforementioned fans/theorists are EVERYWHERE, demonizing Genocide players and taunting them as they said "I told you so". Those kinds of fans made me disillusioned towards the experience and make me wonder if they even understand Undertale's true message.

Undertale is a video game which is influenced by the player's own choices, and judges you depending on if you want to be altruistic and help others or just want to be the all-powerful one, only to find that the choices that led to your power have consequences and you feel bad for what you've done. But even if this big personality test will judge you, what's more important are the judges that have free will.

Those types of fans act like prejudiced religious extremists, believing that anyone who doesn't follow their philosophy is their enemy and they are the absolutely right ones. They're basically Judge Frollo from Hunchback of the Notre Dame. Or to go on-topic, they are basically just like their strawman depiction of Genocide players: they care about only themselves, they want to take absolute control of the world and ultimately prove themselves to be more of a threat than the villains they believe themselves to be fighting.

As Nietzche said: "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster." Do you see where this is going? The anti-Genocide zealots think that Genocide players are pure evil, so they oppressed and pressured them. In the lore of Undertale's world, the humans misguidedly saw the monsters as a threat so they attacked and oppressed them. Sound familiar? The zealots claim that they're on the monsters' side, but they act like the ones that sealed them away. A new player would start killing because they want to succeed and be the "hero", but they end up becoming hated and feared by the opposing side. They ultimately prove themselves to be no different to the players they're referring to, but instead of wielding spears and knives, they attack with bigotry and dehumanization. It wouldn't be as fatal as a monster being killed and turned into dust, but being constantly belittled and abused like that is already a problem. Undertale is only mean-spirited towards people who want to commit evil acts on purpose, but these guys take it even further and attack everyone they meet. Just because a few people played Genocide doesn't mean that every single person in the community is going to. And in the end, who is the villain in this situation?

Isn't the whole point of Undertale to avoid misjudgment and help others no matter how different they are? Because if this community is going to follow the exact opposite, then continue to be sad, distrustful and edgy. I seem to be taking the role of Chara here, and is it any wonder why they wanted revenge?