Thinking about how all of the childhood movies I watched made me think inanimate objects had souls bled into my hyper empathy for NPCs and now I get anxiety playing games like Dwarf Fortress because I am afraid I’ll make a bad decision and hurt the dwarves.

Thinking about playing in an evil area so my fort is destroyed by monsters and the undead instead of me. If I’m gonna stop playing a fort either way it might as well be due to a spectacular catastrophe instead of anxiety!

Edit: man it would be genuinely fucked up if these dwarves were sentient, like hey y’all in order to feel better about being a failure I’m going to send you to the most inhospitable and dangerous part of the world so something else can be the reason you die.