Cataloguing culpability?

[Sionnan]

So I'm at the portion of the game where ARID is busy reflecting on culpability after she gets incapacitated. So far I've tried to go across the board with the options, but externally, internally, and indeterminately don't seem to be all the answer.

Can anyone give some insight? What amount of culpability belongs to each situation?

[Calsetes]

Is there a right answer at that part?

I wound up picking "internally" for every option - as ARID herself is why each of them had a massive failure - and it let me go on. Make sure you use the giant visor in the background after selecting an option for each.

[Cleril]

I don't believe there's a right answer to any of them in terms of the game looking for one. It just wants each catalogued.

[Mitch Rocks]

Yeah, just be honest with yourself and use the visor when you're done. It's more of a self-reflection than a puzzle.

[Ap2000]

Originally posted by Sado:

Yeah, just be honest with yourself and use the visor when you're done. It's more of a self-reflection than a puzzle.

Thanks, I completely missed the background visor. lol

[Mitch Rocks]

Originally posted by Ap2000:

Originally posted by Sado:

Yeah, just be honest with yourself and use the visor when you're done. It's more of a self-reflection than a puzzle.

Thanks, I completely missed the background visor. lol

Easy mistake, glad you understand now.

[[HYBRID BEING]]

Actually, the choices slightly affect dialogs with hosts down the road, most noticably during the "understanding" part. Didn't try "indeterminately", but choosing "internally" led to Arid accepting resposibility, while "externally" made Arid argue that she had no other choice (but still sorry).
Kinda not much to replay the game the third time for, so unless some kind soul could share a save around this part, i'm not gonna bother with the third option.

[Lotus_Blomster]

Originally posted by HYBRID BEING:

Actually, the choices slightly affect dialogs with hosts down the road, most noticably during the "understanding" part. Didn't try "indeterminately", but choosing "internally" led to Arid accepting resposibility, while "externally" made Arid argue that she had no other choice (but still sorry).
Kinda not much to replay the game the third time for, so unless some kind soul could share a save around this part, i'm not gonna bother with the third option.

I'm currently on my first playthrough, and I went with indeterminate culpability for all choices (as well as "Redeem Self", instead of "save others" or "stop joseph"). I currently only have partially completed the Butler, but it seems like this choice is primarily focused on Arid gaining solidarity, and comparing each host's situations with her own.

Not blaming herself wholesale, and not completely blaming the situation on the virus. It's... thought provoking. I will follow this up with an update as it becomes available.

Edit: Yes, this seems to carry through the others. To prevent your self imposed purpose from being erased, you destroy the Butler's purpose. To prevent your individuality from being erased, you destroy One's individuality. To prevent your body from being violated, you violate Companion and all those around her. It's an uncertain perspective, unknowing of where exactly culpability begins (Arid taking blame wholesale), and whether the outcome possibly could have changed (Arid blaming it on circumstance and the virus), but being sorry nonetheless.