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Jacques Lacan, VA-11 Hall-A and headaches
| ... about fictional characters, ethics and existance; everything applying videogames.
From what I understood, "The Real" is what cannot be explained by words, the truth.
"Reality" is our explanation of "The Real"; it's not neccesarily true, but is plausible.
I tried to use VA-11 Hall-A as an example in order to understand this better, and Anna kind of works as one.
Death, and Anna's current state are "Reals". Not even Anna truly knows why she is in that state.
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Part II
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And the explanations given by the characters are the "Realities". She could be a ghost, a nanomachine cloud, or whatever explanation you consider valid.
I could be wrong, since I don't study this kind of things. If anyone has a better understanding of Lacanian Theories, you are welcome to tell me how wrong I am.
Part III
| It sounds kinda like the whole "our reality is filtered through our perception and brain" so it's not to total "real" (in Lacan terms). Among other things. I wonder if this extends to experiences of events. In the beginning of the game there was this whole incident that ended up disabling most of the White Knights' armor. Jill/MC experiences this as "something happening out there" and hears about it as rumors and stuff told by others to her. Sei's experience is different. Etc.
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| Try killer7 as well while your at it.
Its a big head scratcher that leaves more questions than answers.
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| Now I just remembered a phrase, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear, does it make a sound?"
In other words, does something exist if there is no one to perceive it?
Anna exists as long as Jill can see, hear and remember her.
| >>365855 it definitely exists. after all, regardless of whether anyone noticed or not, it happened
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| First of all, SPOILERS.
So, the other day I talked to my
graphic design teacher (sociology, antropology and semiotics) about VA-11 Hall-A; more specificly, Dorothy's solipsistic crisis and Jill explaining how we should not worry about not being real; and ended up talking about Jacques Lacan and the difference between "The Real" and "Reality".
Now here I am, scratching my head, trying to apply what I understood to something I've been writing for a couple months...
Part I