Poll: What would you save? All of your gaming accounts/memory, or a person?
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And yet I imagine you would be among the morally outraged Escapists if a news article was posted about a kid who shot his mom because she took away his Xbox.DeathsHands said:
Also, are you really prepared to die so I can keep my 2.4 K/D ratio in CoD 4? This cuts both ways buddy
No. If a group starts preaching that "one plus one equal two" then math doesn't suddenly stem from them.Blank Kold said:
Morality comes from thinking critically about actions and consequences. It varies greatly because people have different values and inevitably come up with different answers to the same questions. For instance some people think it's okay to harm one to help many, while others think it's wrong to harm one to help many. Religion has nothing to do with it. It's reasonable to say that a person of X religion will learn ethics of that religion and think of them as correct, but that doesn't make religion intrinsic to ethics.
Anyway, it's pretty sad that anybody would choose to let a person die rather than sacrificing their save games. If you go back to a video game you'd have to start over from the beginning which isn't even a terrible inconvenience in most cases. Worst case scenario would be losing thousands of hours of progress in a game you enjoyed and having to spend time doing something you enjoy to back to your prior status.
I get a clean slate? Total freedom, AND I save a life? Of course, I'd have to just buy one Gameshark or equivalent for every console... no big deal.
It's like I get two for the price of one!
It's like I get two for the price of one!
If it's a stranger as in I don't know who it is then I would save the stranger. Maybe it's someone I know or care about.
If it's a person I haven't met, then I'd probably save my games and saves. XBLA indie titles were expensive...
If it's a person I haven't met, then I'd probably save my games and saves. XBLA indie titles were expensive...
Well since I don't know the person very well and I've spent HOURS on my gaming life (in general) I'm gonna let him or her die.
EDIT: Now if it was my girlfriend or a family member, I would give up all I have (gaming) to save them, well if giving it up could save them, I would
EDIT: Now if it was my girlfriend or a family member, I would give up all I have (gaming) to save them, well if giving it up could save them, I would
The Person obviously. If all my data gets deleted all it means is that I have to play my favourite games agian....oh no.
I assume i get to keep my games, so the person (tho, i'd still save him/her if i didn't get to keep them).
I don't care about the stranger, but i'm actually not that attached to savegames n all that.
Don't care much about this poll too. They can all die!
Don't care much about this poll too. They can all die!
Well, to start, I don't really think you need to antagonize me over my choice in a hypothetical situation (if that was not your intention, then consider this statement omitted).Brawndo said:
...no, I wouldn't be outraged. I'd just facepalm because that'd fuel a bunch of idiots to rant on about it.
Am I prepared to die? It's asking if someone else is for mine. You can't just turn it around and expect it to be equally relevant; of course someone would not like dying.
Dying kinda sucks.
I may be a selfish bastard, but I have hundreds of games and loads of accounts. I play these games with mah buddies, and I paid a metric shit-ton of money on them.
Sorry guy, guess your pretty fucked., but I will still feel bad for you...kinda.
EDIT: I also predict an impending explosion of these types of threads, now that first has proven popular, it's how The Escapist rolls.
Sorry guy, guess your pretty fucked., but I will still feel bad for you...kinda.
EDIT: I also predict an impending explosion of these types of threads, now that first has proven popular, it's how The Escapist rolls.
as long as i get to keep my games the saves and achievements and whatnot can go out the window
though i will ad mit it was a bit of a hard decision do i save some one at great personal cost for no promise of equal or greater reward or do i cost a random their life ?
though i will ad mit it was a bit of a hard decision do i save some one at great personal cost for no promise of equal or greater reward or do i cost a random their life ?
All I have to do is look at the poll, assume the absolute least-rewarding circumstances and strictest guidelines, and choose saving a person's life anyway. I'd probably receive mod intervention for sharing my honest opinion on the (at present) 91 people that would rather condemn a fellow human being to death than see their precious videogame progress wiped away, so I'll end this post by plainly stating that I'm far more invested in my sense of humanity than all those hours I pissed away by staring vacantly at a screen.
Although I am under the impression that most of humanity is a virus with shoes (me included so that I don't sound as a hypocrite) I don't have game accounts, wow subscriptions, whatever. I do have some save games on a CD somewhere but considering the times I lost it I might as well not have it.
So the person. Plus, I can always replay the game and make new saves. Which I do anyway every time I install the game. And if I don't replay it, it probably wasn't worth it for me anyway.
So the person. Plus, I can always replay the game and make new saves. Which I do anyway every time I install the game. And if I don't replay it, it probably wasn't worth it for me anyway.