>>5392929Just because you have trouble udnerstanding the words doesn't make them buzzwords. The things people said about Akule were all pretty accurate and applicable. He is openly a racist, he seems to have been involuntarily celibate (or at least unpopular with the "whore" women back home, who he resents), and he's a doomer (because he literally seems to mirror the directionless nihilism associated with people of that substrata in real life).
I do admit I don't get why people in this quest are surprised by his personality, or consider it a breaking point considering how many brutal and not-infrequently-bigoted dictators we've played as at this point.
I think some players' inability to separate emotionally in this sidequest has more to do with a lack of cool, fun distractions to help take their mind off of it, and the relative peeling-back of the sci-fi fantasticism to reveal the much more mundane root of that ideology. We aren't debating whether or not we should genocide hermaphoroditic space-weevils to build extrasolar colonies now; we're sitting inside the brain of a depressed, angry twenty-something while he throws a tizzy about how not-Blacks are STILL whining about slavery even though HE'S the REAL slave, and the players can neither vote to change his mind nor to take his mind off of it and go do other things. We can only wait for a not-South Asian to drive through town and decide how brutally we accost him.
