Everyone gets to choose how they play, and that trying to force people to act the way you think they should act ends in disaster.
[Javert. Daniel. Even Fabius. Those were...crimes against ma'at, weren't they? Attempts to upset the natural order, as laid out by the Fog God and whoever made this game, where each monster governs himself. It's why Atem doesn't get bent out of shape over other people's feeding habits. That's just part of the game. It's unavoidable, and everyone's doing their best to live within their own codes -- or make their codes something they can live with. It's different for everyone, and not his place to interfere.]
I won't be trying that.
But my friends are suffering. I can't leave them to that, and say "good luck!" I...wouldn't be able to face myself.
[In a game that's primed for suffering, that's designed to cause as much as possible...he's set up to fail, there. But he's refusing to realize it, or that there's a middle ground. Atem has to be doing his best, all of the time. He always gives the game everything he's got, and he refuses to see that he's going to burn himself out. Because he doesn't burn out. He's Atem.]
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I know.
I know this is a multiplayer game.
Everyone gets to choose how they play, and that trying to force people to act the way you think they should act ends in disaster.
[Javert. Daniel. Even Fabius. Those were...crimes against ma'at, weren't they? Attempts to upset the natural order, as laid out by the Fog God and whoever made this game, where each monster governs himself. It's why Atem doesn't get bent out of shape over other people's feeding habits. That's just part of the game. It's unavoidable, and everyone's doing their best to live within their own codes -- or make their codes something they can live with. It's different for everyone, and not his place to interfere.]
I won't be trying that.
But my friends are suffering. I can't leave them to that, and say "good luck!" I...wouldn't be able to face myself.
[In a game that's primed for suffering, that's designed to cause as much as possible...he's set up to fail, there. But he's refusing to realize it, or that there's a middle ground. Atem has to be doing his best, all of the time. He always gives the game everything he's got, and he refuses to see that he's going to burn himself out. Because he doesn't burn out. He's Atem.]