Recent content by Domoslaf

Woah, you guys really dislike girls!

I'm 100% with Chris. I hate that show. It's not only bad, it also makes the world a worse place. People actually use it as an excuce to being assholes. Also: "I watch it because it's more like real life". My god. It's not and I don't want to have anything to do with you or your life.

Actually PS:T is Black Isle (Fallout guys), so it's kind of its own animal with a much darker tone and more ambiguity than Baldur's Gates. If you'd like to have a go at BG, I would strongly recommend skipping 1, it's pretty much forgettable if you disregard its importance for the genre (which...

Duplicate thread, please delete

I've been thinking about it a lot while playing Bioshock Infinite, especially towards the end of the game. There's an article Yahtzee wrote a while back about the role of death in video games which I remembered because I agree with him so much on that point. Especially the whole "loading the...

Jim, I feel like I'm supposed to start with "I know you don't read the comments, but", but of course you do read them. I really like your show. The actual show. The bits where you talk about important, often controversial things others don't bother to talk about, don't have courage to or...

I enjoyed The Walking Dead a lot and, for what it is, I think it's a great experience, perhaps even award worthy. But to see Jim, who has up to this point been stronly on the "gameplay" side of the "gameplay vs. story" argument, award a game that is all story and no gameplay is truly...

Maybe, but saying that it's the same as not saving a drowning person before you is insane. Even the "inhuman" law system puts a strong emphasis on intentions, but in your world everything is somehow misguidedly "logical" and "mathematical". You would probably consider a beggar asking for...

OK, let's put it that way, could you really be angry at someone for saving a person instead of your dog? Could you really walk up to them and say that their made a wrong choice and they should've saved your dog instead of that meaningless man/woman? Would you even be able to articulate that?

What I also don't get is this semi-scientific, mathematical way of looking at things humane in nature. What you say may or may not make sense in some crazy logical robot world, but do you sincerely believe that there's no difference between not giving to charity and not saving a drowning person...

And these, by contrast, are the basics your ethics - "I choose what I like more". I don't think you grasp the concept of ethics, they're here to help us make decisions that often *contradict* what we think is better for us personally. You really don't need ethics to just do whatever the hell you...

Well thank you too, it turned out a lot more civil than I expected. EDIT: Oh, and I didn't really have a problem with "but man, I love my animal so much". It was all that "but that's just some random guy to whom I owe nothing" used as an argument for not helping another person that rubbed me...

I love you for this post.

OK, as we've already said all we had to say, to put things in perspective I will point out that the very problem is constructed in a extremely melodramatic way and obviously means to cause controversy. So there's that, I don't really believe that all you "save the pet" supporters are Hitlers in...

Not wanting other people to die, yeah, those are some real eccentric ethics I have. ;)