Against the Chris Avellone personality cult

[Neanderthal]

What's even the point of this thread again?

Because criticism is a bloody good thing, and high expectations are underappreciated now, too many fan boys excusing devs and not enough players asking for better.

Sides if you've read any MCA interviews you'll see man's his own biggest critic, what we just skim over he probably obsesses about.

 

[Theldaran]

I only know that Durance is a well-written, interesting badass, and one of the few reasons to even consider playing PoE1.

 

[Jarmaro]

I mean, "bad" people IRL tend to do bad shit for three reasons: 1) because they think they're doing good

that's actually one of the most common tropes nowadays, which has no basis in reality. Even delusional people rarely ever state they were helping the old lady cross the street when they actually beat her into a bloody pulp. At best, they claim that something, even a higher power, ordered them to do so. Those people who try to put forth good intentions as a defence are actually those who aren't legally insane; meaning, they're in control of themselves, and we can relatively safely chalk that defence up to lying.

Wasn't "thinking that they're doing good" intelligent people trait? Average or stupid commonly shift blame on the victim, that they could steal something beceause it was unprotected and its owner's fault he didn't secure it, that they could rape beceause woman was wearing "slutty", it's always someone else's fault in their minds, not theirs.

 

[Sacred82]

I mean, "bad" people IRL tend to do bad shit for three reasons: 1) because they think they're doing good

that's actually one of the most common tropes nowadays, which has no basis in reality. Even delusional people rarely ever state they were helping the old lady cross the street when they actually beat her into a bloody pulp. At best, they claim that something, even a higher power, ordered them to do so. Those people who try to put forth good intentions as a defence are actually those who aren't legally insane; meaning, they're in control of themselves, and we can relatively safely chalk that defence up to lying.

Wasn't "thinking that they're doing good" intelligent people trait? Average or stupid commonly shift blame on the victim, that they could steal something beceause it was unprotected and its owner's fault he didn't secure it, that they could rape beceause woman was wearing "slutty", it's always someone else's fault in their minds, not theirs.

The average thief blames the victim for being so easy to steal from? U sure?

If there's such a thing as 'intelligent people crime', it would probably be something that happened from behind the cover of society, e.g. by abusing their powers of office. In that situation, yes, the reflexive defense mechanism to claim that you were actually acting in everyone's interests exists I would say. In this case, the 'fault' still lies with someone else (those who put those great heroes to society on trial), and they're painting themselves as the true victims at the same time. If that's a sign of intelligence or of even greater mental derangedness, that can be argued about, but a rather strong feeling of entitlement is obvious in there.

 

[2house2fly]

What's even the point of this thread again? SQWs with an axe to grind against Avellone because he's liberal?

The guy pretty much single-handedly gave us PS:T and 80% of everything worthwhile in the games to which he has seriously contributed. His portfolio includes some of THE most memorable characters in RPG history, and rarely strays into the territory of the cliche, hackneyed, or strained. The main is an absolute legend for a reason. You should be pissed at him because he wastes his talents doing contract writing for lesser writers with half his imagination.

I very much am