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Can we talk about the BrokenAesop entry? I think the second point is pretty valid, but the first entry regarding the equivalence of Omnics to marginalized citizens is pretty wonky, mostly because of the fact it seems to be basing itself on an \
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Can we talk about the BrokenAesop entry? I think the second point is pretty valid, but the first entry regarding the equivalence of Omnics to marginalized citizens is pretty wonky, mostly because of the fact it seems to be basing itself on an \\\"aesop\\\" which I don\\\'t think Blizzard is actually trying to say. Sure, omnics are \\\'\\\'coded\\\'\\\' as minorities (in that they are defined with attributes found IRL), but I don\\\'t think the writers were trying to make them into a direct \\\'\\\'allegory\\\'\\\' (that omnics and real-world minorities are completely equivalent).
The points seem to bypass the fact that all these speculative scifi elements that seemingly \\\"break\\\" the \\\"aesop\\\" are either universally applicable (possessing superweapons is something humans can do too; hell, a vast majority of the present-day supervillains in the plot are human) or fundamentally equate the existence of omnics as a direct allegory for a racial/cultural minority of some kind, not merely their own thing with just light coding of the \\\"other\\\".
Like, in order to interpret stuff like \\\"Omnics are a cautionary tale regarding slave revolt\\\" as \\\"aesop breaking\\\", that would require the idea that Blizzard was deliberately trying to frame that as the intended narrative, when everything we\\\'ve seen of it so far implies that it was ultimately much more mundane \\\"brainwashed robot uprising,\\\" with the coding of omnics as minorities developing \\\'\\\'after\\\'\\\' the war was thwarted. Even then, I don\\\'t think there\\\'s any depiction of omnics as a collective race being done as a counterpart to any distinct real-world analogue to indicate there being a parallel (and groups that do like the Shambali, coded as pseudo-Buddhist monks, are merely a faction of the race).
I don\\\'t even get it, what is the lesson/moral that\\\'s even being violated here? [[SpaceWhaleAesop That robots shouldn\\\'t be narratively equated to human-level citizens?]] It\\\'s a scifi world and the robots are \\\'\\\'far\\\'\\\' more advanced than Roombas, so why not?
The points seem to bypass the fact that all these speculative scifi elements that seemingly \\\"break\\\" the \\\"aesop\\\" are either universally applicable (possessing superweapons is something humans can do too; hell, a vast majority of the present-day supervillains in the plot are human) or fundamentally equate the existence of omnics as a direct allegory for a racial/cultural minority of some kind, not merely their own thing with just light coding of the \\\"other\\\".
Like, in order to interpret stuff like \\\"Omnics are a cautionary tale regarding slave revolt\\\" as \\\"aesop breaking\\\", that would require the idea that Blizzard was deliberately trying to frame that as the intended narrative, when everything we\\\'ve seen of it so far implies that it was ultimately much more mundane \\\"brainwashed robot uprising,\\\" with the coding of omnics as minorities developing \\\'\\\'after\\\'\\\' the war was thwarted. Even then, I don\\\'t think there\\\'s any depiction of omnics as a collective race being done as a counterpart to any distinct real-world analogue to indicate there being a parallel (and groups that do like the Shambali, coded as pseudo-Buddhist monks, are merely a faction of the race).
I don\\\'t even get it, what is the lesson/moral that\\\'s even being violated here? [[SpaceWhaleAesop That robots shouldn\\\'t be narratively equated to human-level citizens?]] It\\\'s a scifi world and the robots are \\\'\\\'far\\\'\\\' more advanced than Roombas, so why not?
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Can we talk about the BrokenAesop entry? I think the second point is pretty valid, but the first entry regarding the equivalence of Omnics to marginalized citizens is pretty wonky, mostly because of the fact it seems to be basing itself on an \
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Can we talk about the BrokenAesop entry? I think the second point is pretty valid, but the first entry regarding the equivalence of Omnics to marginalized citizens is pretty wonky, mostly because of the fact it seems to be basing itself on an \\\"aesop\\\" which I don\\\'t think Blizzard is actually trying to say. Sure, omnics are \\\'\\\'coded\\\'\\\' as minorities (in that they are defined with attributes found IRL), but I don\\\'t think the writers were trying to make them into a direct \\\'\\\'allegory\\\'\\\' (that omnics and real-world minorities are completely equivalent).
The points seem to bypass the fact that all these speculative scifi elements that seemingly \\\"break\\\" the \\\"aesop\\\" are either universally applicable (possessing superweapons is something humans can do too; hell, a vast majority of the present-day supervillains in the plot are human) or fundamentally equate the existence of omnics as a direct allegory for a racial/cultural minority of some kind, not merely their own thing with just light coding of the \\\"other\\\".
Like, in order to interpret stuff like \\\"Omnics are a cautionary tale regarding slave revolt\\\" as \\\"aesop breaking\\\", that would require the idea that Blizzard was deliberately trying to frame that as the intended narrative, when everything we\\\'ve seen of it so far implies that it was ultimately much more mundane \\\"brainwashed robot uprising,\\\" with the coding of omnics as minorities developing \\\'\\\'after\\\'\\\' the war was thwarted.
I don\\\'t even get it, what is the lesson/moral that\\\'s even being violated here? [[SpaceWhaleAesop That robots shouldn\\\'t be narratively equated to human-level citizens?]] It\\\'s a scifi world and the robots are \\\'\\\'far\\\'\\\' more advanced than Roombas, so why not?
The points seem to bypass the fact that all these speculative scifi elements that seemingly \\\"break\\\" the \\\"aesop\\\" are either universally applicable (possessing superweapons is something humans can do too; hell, a vast majority of the present-day supervillains in the plot are human) or fundamentally equate the existence of omnics as a direct allegory for a racial/cultural minority of some kind, not merely their own thing with just light coding of the \\\"other\\\".
Like, in order to interpret stuff like \\\"Omnics are a cautionary tale regarding slave revolt\\\" as \\\"aesop breaking\\\", that would require the idea that Blizzard was deliberately trying to frame that as the intended narrative, when everything we\\\'ve seen of it so far implies that it was ultimately much more mundane \\\"brainwashed robot uprising,\\\" with the coding of omnics as minorities developing \\\'\\\'after\\\'\\\' the war was thwarted.
I don\\\'t even get it, what is the lesson/moral that\\\'s even being violated here? [[SpaceWhaleAesop That robots shouldn\\\'t be narratively equated to human-level citizens?]] It\\\'s a scifi world and the robots are \\\'\\\'far\\\'\\\' more advanced than Roombas, so why not?
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Well, he\'s *also* a Wano citizen, but I\'d be fine with moving his entry. That would seem more consistent and make this page a bit less bloated.
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Well, he\\\'s \\\'\\\'also\\\'\\\' a Wano citizen, but I\\\'d be fine with moving his entry. That would seem more consistent and make this page a bit less bloated.
