also it turns out that the idea comes from a malthusian, who would have guessed.
Been thinking about Final Fantasy X. There's something thematically interesting that the game's writing doesn't do justice with the fact that Tidus doesn't really exist but Yuna falls in love with him anyway. Like the world he comes from represents a utopian vision of the past, but a progressive rather than regressive one, where people don't worry about Sin and their technological progress allows them to spend all or nearly all of their time pursuing leisure. By comparison Yuna has spent all her life serving others and society at large, preparing for her destiny of being a human sacrifice for Godzilla.
She's been told her whole life by the church that the utopia enjoyed by pre-Sin Spira was decadent and fell because of that - but it turns out by the end of the game that all of that is completely bunk. The people of Spira didn't destroy their world with machina, they got invaded by an alien that devours life by the cityload and has the ability to turn any force capable of defeating it into the very energy it will use to regenerate itself. The church of Yevon are essentially Spira's collaborators with the invading entity, creating a society that serves the colonizing force that places themselves on top at the cost of everyone else.
Anyway I guess if I was remaking it I would really focus on this stuff instead of doing what they did and just making it a kinda generic tragic love story.
very cool.
currently driving for uber/lyft, probably gonna call it early in a couple of hours. DMV fucked me up this month but two more weekends is more than enough time to make rent so I'll be fine.
fun fact I've got a Crystal Skull bottle that I regularly refill with the cheapest stuff I can to make Cuba Libres with.