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Friday Fun Thread for November 11, 2022

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Anyone playing the new God of war?

I've heard some conflicting things, that the dialogue writing has taken a nose dive for instance, but I'm having a hard time telling if there are genuine gripes that are getting drowned out by astroturfing/fans or if it's butt hurt culture warriors throwing a fit.

I could of course check out some streams but k would prefer not to spoil myself if I'm going to play it.

Never played any of those.

Found an interesting thread on twitter how the newest game was hit by the changing attitude to masculinity where having a unapologetically masculine killer as a protagonist isn't acceptable anymore so they mellowed him out and gave him a beer gut.

It also mentioned Last of Us, another game I never played which apparently features a post-catastrophic survival situation of an adult dude and an unrelated(!) teenage girl and they don't end up fucking which makes less sense as using polystyrene for ballast.

Nothing makes women more likely to glom onto a man than him successfully protecting her from actual danger. That they'd not end up fucking seems extremely unlikely.

Can't repost the thread it, for some reason I've got a search ban from oct 25 so..

I could of course check out some streams but k would prefer not to spoil myself if I'm going to play it.

Pirate it and buy it if it's good ?

Nothing makes women more likely to glom onto a man than him successfully protecting her from actual danger. That they'd not end up fucking seems extremely unlikely.

That girl is like a third of his age, underage, and a daughter figure to him. It would be wildly inappropriate for them to bang, and it's totally plausible that the male character would refuse even if she offered herself to him.

In a post-apocalyptic environment where you're unsure if you'll live through the month 'appropriate' takes the Sam Fried-Bankman route and flees for the Bahamas.

Not really, no. People still have morals about things even if they are in pure survival mode.

Uhh.. maybe. Sometimes. But having sex with willing teenagers you haven't brainwashed isn't particularly heinous and I have very serious doubt about 'morals' in survival mode.

I played some 'survival' games and let me tell you that shit is very much Game of Thrones level of pragmatic immorality.

Few people reject a strong ally even if they knew he was cheating, you just took care not to be in the blast radius when mods wiped them.

(Then you'd donate them resources so they could start up again and become strong once more)

Really the only thing that was unforgivable is a reputation for treachery, and there were pitiful outcast groups whom everyone wanted to murder on sight.

Apart from that you don't care if they're eating babies as long as they're not your babies.

If the choice comes between being allied to baby-eaters and extinction, people always pick the latter one because we're desecended from a long line of survivors and you can tell yourself you can settle accounts with the loathsome but useful baby-eaters later anyway. Some day.

A species can tank a few gene-defectors. And they can pass on some interesting memes that have surprising effects on cooperation. Consider, for example, that one guy who died 2 thousand years ago and is known for that.