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Author Topic: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?  (Read 3916 times)

dwarfguy2

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Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« on: October 11, 2010, 08:37:10 pm »

Now. We all know that there are enemies in games that are not absolutely REQUIRED to kill. We kill them anyway. But... What happens to their families when they receive the news?
http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=938
I watched that around five times (is "watched" the right word for a MUSICAL WEBCOMIC?), and it gets sadder every time. The latest time, I was crying HARD. As if a friend just died.

I Don't know about you, but I'm taking measures to AVOID meaninglessly killing things from now on.
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FuzzyZergling

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Re: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2010, 08:40:43 pm »

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Re: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2010, 08:40:51 pm »

That is awesome as hell.
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Re: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2010, 08:42:26 pm »

I feel no remorse.  If their lives were so important they shouldn't have gotten in my way or had things I wanted.  It's not hard.
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Re: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2010, 08:49:15 pm »

They are pixels and data that have been placed in front of me to kill.

Why should i feel sad?
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Re: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2010, 09:00:44 pm »

Look, we are here because we play Dwarf Fortress. If we don't even care about the fate of our own minions, why would we care about those of anyone else?
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Re: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2010, 09:28:03 pm »

Look, we are here because we play Dwarf Fortress. If we don't even care about the fate of our own minions, why would we care about those of anyone else?
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Re: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2010, 10:13:57 pm »

I saw this like months and months ago man, it's still good though.
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Re: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2010, 10:45:16 pm »

Kinda reminds me of a spot near the end of Max Payne where before you walk out of the elevator, you hear a couple of minions talking and one of them talks about how they're just paying the bills and keeping the family funded and such, and that he's got a family to return to or something like that. Of course, walk in and have the guy notice you, and all of a sudden hear "KILL HIM!" or any of the other stock phrases uttered.

Look, I know you gotta pay the bills and keep your family under a roof and fed, but c'mon, you NEVER sign up to be a minion. A minion under any other name still spells R-E-D-S-H-I-R-T. You know, how R-O-L-A-I-D-S always somehow spells relief.

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All things considered, at least in the Sonic games, your buddies are captured and forced to be mechanical minions. You're just breaking them out of those prisons.
« Last Edit: October 11, 2010, 10:51:11 pm by Itnetlolor »
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Re: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2010, 10:49:23 pm »

True, but being a minion is like playing the lottery with your life if the Big Bad doesn't have an established Dragon, as one of them will at some point end up surviving the Hero's rampage and taking up the role. Of course, the rest will die.
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Re: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2010, 10:50:40 pm »

Kinda reminds me of a spot near the end of Max Payne where before you walk out of the elevator, you hear a couple of minions talking and one of them talks about how they're just paying the bills and keeping the family funded and such, and that he's got a family to return to or something like that. Of course, walk in and have the guy notice you, and all of a sudden hear "KILL HIM!" or any of the other stock phrases uttered.

Look, I know you gotta pay the bills and keep your family under a roof and fed, but c'mon, you NEVER sign up to be a minion. A minion under any other name still spells R-E-D-S-H-I-R-T. You know, how R-O-L-A-I-D-S always somehow spells relief.

I remember that, I think his dad was in the hospital or something.  I shot him just the same.
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Re: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2010, 10:52:03 pm »

Kinda reminds me of a spot near the end of Max Payne where before you walk out of the elevator, you hear a couple of minions talking and one of them talks about how they're just paying the bills and keeping the family funded and such, and that he's got a family to return to or something like that. Of course, walk in and have the guy notice you, and all of a sudden hear "KILL HIM!" or any of the other stock phrases uttered.

Look, I know you gotta pay the bills and keep your family under a roof and fed, but c'mon, you NEVER sign up to be a minion. A minion under any other name still spells R-E-D-S-H-I-R-T. You know, how R-O-L-A-I-D-S always somehow spells relief.
I remember that, I think his dad was in the hospital or something.  I shot him just the same.
Actually, I just lobbed a molotov at him.

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Re: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2010, 10:53:37 pm »

I ran up and hit him with a bat.
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Re: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2010, 11:09:26 pm »

I feel no remorse.  If their lives were so important they shouldn't have gotten in my way or had things I wanted.  It's not hard.

This, so utterly this.

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Re: Up for a sudden rush of gaming perspective?
« Reply #14 on: October 11, 2010, 11:16:46 pm »

I am a tool of the Eternal Swarm, and as such have no concept of remorse, nor mercy.
Still like the song, though.
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