brazenautomaton:

nuclearspaceheater:

brazenautomaton:

I think what Matpat did was a bit dumb but everyone is grotesquely overexaggerating how dumb it was in order to sneer at people who have feelings about unpopular things

Was it dumb? Undertale is arguably the most Catholic video game ever made.

That’s not why he gave the code for it, though, he gave the code for it due to (what appears to me to be) his inability to seriously ask himself if anyone has ever had the thoughts or emotions he’s having, and thus concluding everything he thinks and experiences is incredibly new and important and has to be shared. This video game says we should be nice to each other, this is new, the Pope needs to know about this!

There are video games that would be good ideas to give to the Pope as a symbolic gesture (like giving Obama the Witcher 2 made perfect sense, as it was part of a bundle of Polish cultural works that the nation of Poland was proud of). Undertale was not one of those games. Matpat’s reasoning for thinking it was was cringey and idiotic. But people shitting on him because he had any emotions about a video game, or dared to bring up a video game to an important person, or thought there was such a thing as symbolic importance that a video game might fit into, those people are just piling on to express contempt for an unpopular person.

His reason behind it was Because it’s a game that promotes peaceful alternatives, breakaways from stereotypes and acceptance. All of which pope Francis has been fighting (figuratively) for. That’s what the symbolism behind it is. The reason he even chose a game is because he was chosen to represent YouTube gaming at the event and the gift had to be reflective of the culture being represented.