Let's Play Drakengard - 26 - Inuart, One Last Time

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Rants of Oz

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Published on August 24, 2021 8:00:16 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdYZrGwvAlA

Game:

Drakengard (2003)

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Let's Play

Duration: 21:10

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Let's play of the 2004 cult... classic? Drakengard! The progenitor of the Yoko Taro madness that eventually came to spawn Nier Replicant and Automata. Here we see where it all started, and can perhaps gain an appreciation for how far this series has come... If we manage to endure the experience while maintaining our sanity. Make no mistake: that is no easy task. Drakengard is not for the faint of heart, or the overly critic of gameplay mechanics. Join me in this wild ride to have our spirits crushed and our minds broken! No one stops now!

In this episode we face off against our childhood friend one last time.

I didn't realize this soon enough... but the stage-based nature of this game is not very conducive to making long winded arguments on philosophical ponderings; in the tradition of YouTube essayist, sometimes it takes me a good 30 minutes to get to a point, and most stages in this game are barely over 20 minutes long! ...so we end up with a lot of cut conversations. However, the "fact" thing I brought up in this episode deserves some further exposition:

When most people try to define a fact, they say something like, for example: "a fact is that humans have two eyes", which is not a definition, it is an example. Having two eyes makes a fact out of nothing. (There is also a distinction of factual reality and factual imaginary to consider; Cyclops definitely exist and are factual within the worlds in which they are represented, but that's another discussion. Fictional Realism, or the less contentious Modern Realism, are very deep blackholes, we don't want to go there...) So... What is it about a FACT that makes it TRUE? This is an epistemological discussion that exists basically since Socrates (read Euthyphro if you want a glimpse into this problem from the perspective of religion) and has yet to truly be answered in these exact terms (at least to my satisfaction, not that it matters what I think).

Plato implemented a method of justifiable, verifiable truth. In which a fact is that which can be universally verified as being true. So, for instance, you could check for the existence of the sun. IT'S RIGHT THERE, LOOK AT IT (or maybe don't). But... What about the less obvious things? Like, say: Is it a fact that murder is wrong? Is it a FACT that Caim is a psychopath? Our society would currently agree that, yes, both of those things. Factual. Definitely. But that is our agreed upon opinion as a societal unity.

Hegel can be noted as saying that if personal facts are authentic, the way you act MUST BE the way you think and talk about life. It is not in us to betray our essence, if you don't believe in something, you can't act like you do. But it's important to understand the order of things: The way you ACT is the way you BELIEVE. If you say you believe in justice but you perform injustice, you are being true to your actions, not your alleged believes. Lying to yourself, on the other hand, is mainly covered by Existentialism and Sartre. We will get all over that once we reach Nier Automata, don't worry!

Feel free to discuss this in the comments. I'd be delighted to talk this out with people willing to engage intellectually with the subject. Although... Drakengard Let's Play may not be the best place to go looking for epistemological debate. But who knows?! Surprise me, YouTube!


Also here is a cool video about the Geometry stuff I mentioned as it applies to flat earth debunking: https://youtu.be/ScJ4QW7gAlw


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