I've noticed you have a specific penchant for the Republic side. We all know Empire is seen as the cooler side besides for the cool factor and edge that appeals to people. The corruption, the 'freedom', the dark stuff that seems to happen but never to our characters. I'm not trying to single you out or make you a target but after years of reading your replies, I'm curious as to why the majority appeal of the Empire seems to strike a nerve with you. At least pub side feels more relaxing.. most times.
Me, I'm just surprised why the Empire is so much attractive. I find it merely
"darker and edgier" , and as that, ultimatively boring.
Or, not so much boring as … well. the Empire is like Rock Stars to me : Everyone wabnts to be a dark-side badass.
I just cannot chime in into that. I mean, to me, it's just a mirror of RL, everything becomes "darker and edgier" and more grim in RL as well, and to me, that's just a mirror.
Me, I've been going through "dark times" myself in RL, and because of that, I just cannot understand the fadcination of the Empire, of being "darker and edgier" anyway, and of Gangsta Rap, atoo. The most best-selling music here in Germany overal is just this . Gangsta Rap or Gangsta Hip Hop. Where everything is bad, cruel, and everyone wants to be a bad,bad,bad badass with lots, lots, lots of money. People would even want to paint their rooms black for that, I guess, :rak_05:
The older I get - and I'm over 40 now - the less I can understand that. Today I read an article on gaming in general, and that Nintendo manages to be the middle thing between casuals and hardcore gaming, and that Nintendo often manages to combine fun gaming with light colours.
Light colours. For example. Often considered to be childish and immature. If you want to be mature, you've got to weark black, with gold chains around your neck, and a strong fist. Your car has to be black, your house has to be black, your heart has to be black. and i do *not* mean skin colour, instead I mean the visual appearance. Colour as a symbol. "Men In Black". It's no wonder that the cliché of Agents often schows them absolutely colourless, and Heavy Metal is similar. Every Heavy Metal band wearing colourful clothes and having colourful album covers would get a shitstorm. Because that must not be. Defenders of the cliché would feel deeply insulted. Same with Gangsta Rap. It's no wonder why The Notorioius B.I.G. has named himself that way, dressed in these black clothes, drove in black cars, I guess, on public fotos, and has this kind of sing texts. People buy that.
I just cannot understand that everything dark is that attractive. Maybe I'm just too old for that. Mybe my heart is far too optimistic. Maybe I'm too childish.
In my case, it's just a matter of "I've sen darkness in RL and I decided that I never want to go back to that". As someone has had severe times of Depressions, I've seen my personal darkness, been there, and I never would want to go back. So, black means to me "end of life", and everything grey and dark, too.
We all know Empire is seen as the cooler side besides for the cool factor and edge that appeals to people. The corruption, the 'freedom', the dark stuff that seems to happen but never to our characters.
I've read an opinion article a few weeks ago, stating that the favouritism of darker themes is the result of an oversaturated society. Where everything is neat and comes handy. KOTFE even kind of mirrors that : The society shown there is oversaturated, too. They just do not know any violence, they just do not know anjy kinds of pain. So, what do they do ß They do turn their eyes towards violence. The Eternal Championship. They kind of love tales of violence, because they do know that they'll never have that in RL. The people on Zakuul.
In that above mentioned opinion article, the author stated that the looking for violence, looking for dark themes, looking for pain (trolling !) is a the sign that a society seeks in media what it cannot find in RL.
When everything's nice & cosy in RL, people turn into violence and drama in the Media, in games, for example.
It's like … trying to break out from societies' standards. Like throwintg the colourful and cosy pillow away, because one does not want it to be cosy and colourful anymore. It's like trying to break the chains, trying to break out from the cage.
And that's what often teenagers do.
I have never done so, because i developed differently. I went through hard Depressions as an elementary school child. Only these days, scientists are accepting that elementary school kids can have Depressions, too. That was never believed before. When I was young, no-one believed me, I had nowhere to turn to, because I was so much different than everyone else. I was the "odd man out". As an elementtary school child. I knew 50 names of dinosaurs, I was telling everyone about fossils, I was talking stuff elementary school kids aren't supposed to talk about. So, the other kids declared me to be "wrong in the head". It's now a bad cliché , even to me : "This child had a difficult childhood.". In the media, I would have become a villain because of that.
I was never normal. So, people tried to put me "he is wrong in his head" bin.
Well, that led me into writing my first poems at the age of 14, merely to have an outlet for my pain, but … well, as an artist, I kind of developed my own style.
During my darkest time, with Dpressions, literally lying in the bed for weeks (I was a student, then), and trying to imagine hundreds of ways to end my life, I once decided at one point that Darkness is not good for me. It would drive me into Depressions again.
And, as a result, I decided to become colourful on the inside. And so I am now.
So, since everything darkness is = pain to me, the only way to get away from pain is to turn to and become more colourful and more lighthearted.
Which is probably the reason why I just can't understand the fascination for the Empire. And for everything dark in general.
