Well ok, that’s fine, definitely contrary to medical ethics in pretty much the entire civilized world. But I get it, you’re Hawkeye in that episode of MASH, performing unnecessary surgery on an officer to stop him getting men killed. ( https://mash.fandom.com/wiki/Preventative_Medicine_(TV_series_episode) )

A 14 year old suffering from, at a minimum, survivor’s guilt (and probably PTSD and maybe depression) can’t ethically make that choice.

What changes could they make that would smooth things over with people who hate the game without completely changing it? They're not going to completely change it.

I think it still works though. Casual violence is basically the core of the gameplay so seeing his casual violence in the cutscenes isn’t jarring. Like the sniper scene, you’ve killed probably hundreds of people by that point, it’d seem ridiculous for Joel to offer mercy to one last mook. And of course he’s going to…

It should be injected into muscle, and I think she'd have a hard time pushing through all the muscle into his organs, so I rank it: plausible enough?

My takeaway is that it’s indicative of FEDRA’s mismanagement. They're keeping everyone walled in in the remains of the most densely populated places in the US. The worst place to be. They're running out of food, but it appears people aren't even allowed to leave of their own volition. The smart thing to do would be to…

You kill an absurd number of people in the game. In the show between the two of them they kill 5 (including David) and also one guy at the university. I honestly didn’t think to look too hard at the group scenes so this might be way off, but the whole group is maybe 30? They might have killed about half the men, and…

In the post-episode discussion they show it, it’s a fake mechanical horse on rails that launches the stunt woman. The horse you see is CG’d over the fake one but she goes a flyin

One interesting thing about the lack of infected is that it presents them as much less of a threat. Yes, they ransacked KC and are threatening Boston but it sure looks like if you’re outside a formerly heavily populated area they’re a non-factor. Every single character we’ve met outside of the QZs are doing fine. Even…

Well I haven’t played the game since 2013 so while I remember strongly having that impression, watching the scene again it’s not from that. I think I must have gotten the impression from Marlene’s Recorder 2. They asked her to ok the surgery but she says she doesn't think she actually had a choice. They also asked to…

Here, fill in the blank. “I would murder a non-consenting human to improve the life expectancy of humans by ___ days”

I think the intent is that his actions aren’t open and shut? The Fireflies are presented as a sketchy terrorist organization, and they’re about to murder him. He’d have to defend himself and escape but leave Ellie with his would-be killers. If they wanted it to be unambiguous then they’d have Joel released on good…

How are three sentences at the end of an article meant to get clicks? I think you're hyper-fixated on something. The article is about the show being more explicit in some characterization than the game. That's not a hot take.

The take that the show is more explicitly showing some character details than the game? That’s pretty apparent fact.

Only 62% of players completed the first mission so you should scale the percentages based on that, lots of people buy games on Steam they barely touch, so of the cohort that decided the game wasn’t for them immediately about a quarter finished I think.

I’m curious what abilities you think are being stifled? As is, within the constraints they have, they’re already pretty bad at dealing with facts. At least ChatGPT. I asked it what philosophers Cicero might have read to console himself after his daughter Julia’s death. Well first, I typed the wrong name (his daughter…

I didn’t see it in a quick scan of the comments so I’ll point out the name Ish here is a clear reference to the novel Earth Abides. One great thing about the novel is that it’s one of the first post-apocalyptic novels and tells its story without any of the expectations and common tropes that have built up over the…

I mean, their story is only tragic in the sense that we all die when we’re old is tragic. Realistically it’s a very happy story, they live a long life together and die on their own terms.

People complain about unskippable cutscenes in games because you're forced to rewatch them when you die.

I don't think I've heard cracker used even jokingly in a decade or more. Does Twitch allow pig fucker? That's my goto these days but it does lose its bite if the recipient has seen Baseketball.