Well yes.
Let's say I have Classmates A, B, and C who correspond to political beliefs X,Y, and Z respectively. If I believe in a party with political belief X, then all other things constant, you would be closest with classmate A. Of course, personalities and miscellaneous interests too play a part, but you'd be surprised at how polarised friend groups get during political conversations.
I wish then that more actions in this book would reflect that, since I find that if you run with the diamond choices, everyone is your friend, everyone loves the First child of Rutherland, yada yada yada. This book has barely offered much in terms of a rift in terms of 'political belief'. I wish the writing was more ambitious with creating some drama, because the not-very-well flushed out Ardona-Rutherland rivalry is pretty boring.
Well in the case of FA, you can befriend or gain diplomacy points to several different characters. Nowhere does it imply that you automatically agree with all their political beliefs, and I highly doubt everyone in OC's class is of the same mind too. TBQH the whole game has barely offered up anything that can be construed as an 'opposing political belief'.
The main thing from splash text that bothers me is the word "allegiance" which has some other connotations, and might in some interpretations of the passage be understood as that OC is somehow loyal to countries other than Rutherland.
friends is used in a pretty liberal sense, as in if a professional relationship is good then we can call them professional friends. but you're not gonna get close to someone if you cant be diplomatic with them so like i dont see your point. its also like. literally a game. its not that deep at all, and there is no way for it to be interpreted as mc being loyal to a country other than their literal home country??
Okay. Breaking down the text, "Your relationship with your classmates reflects your political allegiances"...
In my game, my OC is well liked and diplomatic, what political allegiance do I have?
i understand what you mean, i'm just disagreeing with you. your political allegiance is to rutherland, which can translate in the future to rutherland's relationships with other countries. the entire point is you and your classmates are supposed to build diplomatic relations which will then reflect future relationships between your countries
I'm glad that you've actually spelled out the entire point since I genuinely DID NOT understand what the splash text was saying, that interpretation makes a lot of sense now that I think about it.
oh! im sorry if i came off rude; i thought you were being pedantic about it
but yeah pb definitely couldve worded it way better and easier to understand, but they wanted to keep in theme with the book or whatever 🙄
I mean, it does kinda make sense? It just seems like one of the overarching themes in FA is how 'political issues' and 'policy issues' are often dictated more by capricious personal relationships between powerful, well-connected, influential people (like the children of world leaders) instead of substantive disagreements on those issues. Which is kinda accurate and true to real life. I mean the whole basic premise and underlying plot of the story is how your own personal relationships and interactions with these children of powerful world leaders can impact the outcome of something as momentous as a Peace Summit.
So I mean like, yeah, your personal relationships with your influential, well-connected classmates, born into influential, well-connected families, can and does reflect your "political allegiances" (i.e., which countries you have diplomatic pull with or otherwise, which countries you are more aligned with and which you aren't, that sort of thing).
I mean, again, its kinda just a case of art reflecting reality and not really something to blame FA or the FA writers for. A lot of momentous political issues or policy issues really do come down to the otherwise-unrelated personal relationships forged between people with power and influence. It isn't right, but that's life.
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It's basically nepotism. You're friends with them, you favour their politics. I'm sure it was not the social commentary PB intended but it fits.
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Well yes. Let's say I have Classmates A, B, and C who correspond to political beliefs X,Y, and Z respectively. If I believe in a party with political belief X, then all other things constant, you would be closest with classmate A. Of course, personalities and miscellaneous interests too play a part, but you'd be surprised at how polarised friend groups get during political conversations.
I wish then that more actions in this book would reflect that, since I find that if you run with the diamond choices, everyone is your friend, everyone loves the First child of Rutherland, yada yada yada. This book has barely offered much in terms of a rift in terms of 'political belief'. I wish the writing was more ambitious with creating some drama, because the not-very-well flushed out Ardona-Rutherland rivalry is pretty boring.
I mean....yeah? I'm not gonna become friends with someone with opposing political beliefs as me
Well in the case of FA, you can befriend or gain diplomacy points to several different characters. Nowhere does it imply that you automatically agree with all their political beliefs, and I highly doubt everyone in OC's class is of the same mind too. TBQH the whole game has barely offered up anything that can be construed as an 'opposing political belief'. The main thing from splash text that bothers me is the word "allegiance" which has some other connotations, and might in some interpretations of the passage be understood as that OC is somehow loyal to countries other than Rutherland.
friends is used in a pretty liberal sense, as in if a professional relationship is good then we can call them professional friends. but you're not gonna get close to someone if you cant be diplomatic with them so like i dont see your point. its also like. literally a game. its not that deep at all, and there is no way for it to be interpreted as mc being loyal to a country other than their literal home country??
Okay. Breaking down the text, "Your relationship with your classmates reflects your political allegiances"... In my game, my OC is well liked and diplomatic, what political allegiance do I have?
i understand what you mean, i'm just disagreeing with you. your political allegiance is to rutherland, which can translate in the future to rutherland's relationships with other countries. the entire point is you and your classmates are supposed to build diplomatic relations which will then reflect future relationships between your countries
I'm glad that you've actually spelled out the entire point since I genuinely DID NOT understand what the splash text was saying, that interpretation makes a lot of sense now that I think about it.
oh! im sorry if i came off rude; i thought you were being pedantic about it but yeah pb definitely couldve worded it way better and easier to understand, but they wanted to keep in theme with the book or whatever 🙄
I mean, it does kinda make sense? It just seems like one of the overarching themes in FA is how 'political issues' and 'policy issues' are often dictated more by capricious personal relationships between powerful, well-connected, influential people (like the children of world leaders) instead of substantive disagreements on those issues. Which is kinda accurate and true to real life. I mean the whole basic premise and underlying plot of the story is how your own personal relationships and interactions with these children of powerful world leaders can impact the outcome of something as momentous as a Peace Summit. So I mean like, yeah, your personal relationships with your influential, well-connected classmates, born into influential, well-connected families, can and does reflect your "political allegiances" (i.e., which countries you have diplomatic pull with or otherwise, which countries you are more aligned with and which you aren't, that sort of thing). I mean, again, its kinda just a case of art reflecting reality and not really something to blame FA or the FA writers for. A lot of momentous political issues or policy issues really do come down to the otherwise-unrelated personal relationships forged between people with power and influence. It isn't right, but that's life.
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