@TheMadPirate @Maholmire @amanda @lainbot @teratology @threat

> I never understood the message behind whatever NGE was trying to say.

If you look for a message and there isn't a message, you won't enjoy it. Same thing with the movie "High Rise" from a few years ago: that was a great movie, but because some of the people in the movie were rich and some of them were working-class, critics were looking for some kind of anti-capitalist message in it, or even pro-capitalist, and it wasn't pushing a message, just doing a portrait of a small society. So the reviewers hated it, and that was one of the big complaints, "I couldn't tell what it was trying to say about capitalism." Pushing a message ruins most things, they end up getting engineered backwards from the message, and trying to figure out the message they're pushing ruins your ability to enjoy something that isn't pushing anything in particular. Sometimes there's no message, sometimes the message is "Think about this for a second". Even when there is a message, like A Clockwork Orange, there might be a bunch of stuff that isn't directly related to that.