the suggestion is overpowering though. while its up to interpretation, its still pretty holyshitfuckyou. its more that hanekoma is abusing it on such a wide scale. besides, isn’t the point of art to start a dialog and not a diatribe?
[ so i was lurking my dash for the first time in 300 years and i noticed your convo with willow so i just wanted to say some things.
pardon for butting in, but like, i just wanted to hopefully clarify some stuff?
the game describes hanekoma’s imprinting as large-scale and powerful. but that’s the thing. his imprinting is something along the lines of "enjoy the moment more" and "gather" iirc, which people are inspired to think. they don't have to suddenly do it, by no means is anyone suddenly walking outside and having fun because they saw his work, forgetting about all their troubles the moment they look. the power level of an imprint simply seems to mean that the imprint is more pervasive, not that it has a better ability to overwrite anything. like, if you watch neku imprinting -- his imprints are fairly mediocre, at times being dismissed by his imprintees quite rapidly. a more powerful imprint seems to mean it is simply less likely to be dismissed as quickly. long story short, in his viewer’s minds, his imprints are essentially just extremely pervasive intrusive thoughts. so yes, sure, hanekoma abuses the concept of intrusive thoughts on a large scale basis but... that in and of itself cannot be called mind control, imho. like, if you poke your friend 3000 times asking them to buy you a chocolate bar... sure that might be annoying and manipulative, but at the end of the day it is your friend’s decision to make, if they buy you the chocolate bar or not. you didn’t mind control them into doing it, and they certainly don’t forget any thoughts they were having prior to your poking.
besides, the point of hanekoma’s imprinting isn’t to make anyone think anything other than their own personal idea of “good things” when they look at his art. he doesn’t tell them how to think, other than to “enjoy more”, which i wouldn’t really say an objectively negative thing, considering it isn’t even him saying “never be negative ever”. it’s is about the same as your dentist saying to brush your teeth more, but directly to your mind. having people feel good and inspired = more creative and productive activity = humans better refining their soul = happy rgers and happy higher plane. his work’s popularity isn’t because he tricks people into liking his work, people like his work because they feel so positively after seeing it -- however “positive” might transcribe for them -- and also feel inclined to come back and look at it, thus repeating the cycle ad infinitum. many npcs speak about how his art in a way that indicates them all having different individual, albeit positive opinions, so...
also, while hanekoma’s in-game exposition is unreliable af, his secret reports are the direct opposite of that; they are the most succinct and veritable things in the game. that’s where the majority of the info re: imprinting comes from comes from so i wouldn’t really doubt those.
that said all of this is moot if you feel using intrusive thoughts is the same as mind control anyway but i at least figured i would say smth on that regardless,,, wwwah. //skeedaddles. ]
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