Lurker > iCurious

Surprisingly no discussion about this on this site at all looks like. At least not on the boards I've checked where it seems...fairly relevant.

Wonder why that might be.

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"Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat."

Sharinnegan posted...

there is nowhere left for the story or the characters to go. the character arcs and the overall story arc of the last of us as a fictional universe all fully concluded there.

If you're extremely unimaginative, sure.

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"Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat."

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"Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat."

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"Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat."

A single sip of some kind of white wine the day I turned 21, at a restaurant. Don't remember what it was specifically, and I'm not even sure I knew at the time for that matter.

Wasn't impressed, haven't had anything else. I've had opportunities to try other stuff, been asked, but the negatives to drinking don't seem worthwhile to me. Maybe I'll try that red wine from my grandfather some day though. Just gets better the longer I let it sit there anyway.

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"Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat."

Had a hard time choosing between save scumming and debug mode. Redoing a bad day could still be a bad experience, where with debug mode I can just adjust reality to make sure I don't have that bad day, or if I do, undo what went wrong.

The only problem is that it's kind of like when I play a game and decide I'm going to cheat, but I don't want to cheat so hard that I have unlimited health and ammo and upgrade power. Yet if I'm going to cheat at all, what am I basing limitations on? Calculated risk of making things uninteresting?

So save scumming if I want to still have the same fundamental challenge of life, just with the ability to redo things. Honestly this would be a ton of fun for a risk averse person like myself...But debug mode if I actually want options. All the other poll options are irrelevant unless you just specifically want that one thing for some reason, and they all kind of suck.

No Clip Mode: Useful if you just want to be the ultimate bank robber, I guess? Maybe the ultimate spy/assassin or some such? Not that useful, would rather have debug mode. Doesn't even make you invisible, so you could screw yourself over pretty easily trying to make use of this. Get caught even once doing this on camera, and you're probably finished. Has minimal applications in day to day life, such as while sitting at your desk. Pass.

Infinite Lives: Some organization eventually notices that you've been around for 200 years (or you do something to expose your power far sooner like an idiot), grabs you, and locks you in a torture/experimentation facility. You eventually die, revive, and continue the process forever in endless darkness or whatever they've come up with for you. Unethical scientists would love you, but Do Not Want. Better to have debug mode to simply disable mortality/aging, plus the power to prevent or escape this scenario.

Infinite Money: Can be achieved via debug mode, save scumming, and even no-clip mode if you put the work in. Could also be achieved via Infinite Lives if you avoid the getting grabbed and tortured/dissected forever issue. Also doesn't address what happens when you get investigated for the expenditure of "infinite money" that you can't explain since you don't have debug mode to disable the IRS's awareness of your existence. Hard pass.

So yeah, only two of the poll options are even a good idea in my view. Any power you give yourself in real life needs to either be very easy to utilize without getting caught and suffering the consequences, or it needs to include the ability to easily deal with said consequences. Unless you just really like a challenge .

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"Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat."