Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30937172-20181123192046/@comment-35315658-20181201183109

TheHumanAmbassador wrote: Alright, I have one main sentence for this entire topic.

Evil in-game≠Evil in real life.

I mean seriously, is anyone who's ever played an Evil-aligned character in D&D a bad person in reality? ..Because it's kind of like that. Is everyone who chose the evil path in Fallout a bad person?

...I didn't think so.

That one statement should probably solve this whole thing. Playing the villain does not make you a villain in REALITY.

Since I consider Frisk and the player to be one and the same, I usually just use Frisk for the player. That makes it more clear I'm calling your character, your persona canonically evil, rather than you, the person, being evil in real life.

The idea of players themselves being evil in real life, I believe came from miscommunication on Judgement Boy's side, as "Who is The True Villain of Undertale?" calls the player evil.. As separate from Frisk.. And that got misinterpreted as you being ACTUALLY evil rather than CANONICALLY evil, since, you know, you were clearly separated from Frisk in that video, and everyting downspiraled from there. Sometimes, people will actually believe a strawman version of argument that supports their side. I think that the player's preference for one route or another can really hint at the personality of the player.(I SAID CAN) But there are much more things in someones mind than just this, we can't really judge someone just by their favourite rout in UT, or if they like being the villain or the hero of the history, but it's something that can help to conclude things.

Should we guilt the player as someone bad? No, it is just a game, but can help to say somewhat the nature of that person.