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Finally starting to move stuff over here looool

Better late then never
Yeah…I don’t recommend going through the thread lol. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss 😅
August 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I think that’s kinda the point about why the thread is so disheartening? Like. A lot of names mentioned in it are pioneers in their fields. Or part of a literary canon that is the foundation of majority of the work we have. From Agatha Christie, to Disney. Some even mentioned Tolkien.
August 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Unfortunately, I think with things like this, you really just have to rest. I know it's hard since this is your employment but if you can find anyway to keep of that wrist, that's really it.

sadly, the more you try to work through it, the worse it will get...
July 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
For sure! but that's just white privilege. I don't think it's necessarily wrong to point out how it won't save you here.

But you are correct. The world will always take things more seriously when it happens to a white person 🙄
July 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Definitely, sadly there's still people out there who try to excuse what's happening with "Oh those detainees were just here illegally! If they followed that law they would be fine"

I think articles like this are there to show that's not the case. It doesn't matter.
July 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I mean if you read the article. The “nobody is safe quote” comes from the Irish victim who did everything in his power to follow legal procedures and literally couldn’t leave because of a medical emergency and he was still detained for months.

He literally means “nobody is safe”
July 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I dunno I think it’s more people take action in waves. I get weeks where I’m fully tuned in and online about all that’s happening in the world and then weeks when I just can’t. It starts messing me up and I need to step back. It could be the people you’re around might be in the second stage.
July 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Right but unless I'm missing something here, Neil is condemning a specific action made by Hamas, and not Palestine or the Palestinian people.

Could he do more to condemn the Israel? Absolutely, most of us could, but I also don't think he's a Zionist.
July 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I hate this stupid article because all it is, is literally one person's interpretation of the game based on their own biases and a couple misinterpretations of quotes from Neil.

I truly don't understand why people keep using it as an example of canon when it doesn't involve any of the creators.
July 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Except people want Joel to be a hero SO BAD they actively refuse to see the other perspective even when the game, and it's creator try to hammer it in time and time again.

Joel isn't a hero, but we can understand him because we would do the same in his shoes. Doesn't make him good!
May 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It's a moral dilemma!

Neither party is "good"

One wants to sacrifice a child to cure humanity

The other goes on a murder spree and prevents the creation of a cure against the child's wishes, BUT saves the child

Neither action is good, but we can understand both perspectives.
May 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Alex, what is ignoring woman's bodily autonomy?

I'm not saying that fireflies were correct. I'm saying they WERE going to make a vaccine/cure from Ellie based on in game logic and science. Based on Ellie's on words, that's what she wanted.

Does that make what they're doing good? No.
May 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Right so you can accept that people can turn into Mushroom zombies. You can accept that one person mysteriously doesn't turn into mushroom zombie, but you can't accept that they can make a cure from that magical person for the magical mushroom zombie disease? That's the hill you want to die on?
May 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
No there weren't. That's a lie Joel told Ellie. She's only ever been the sole Immune person.

The fireflies did try making a vaccine out of other infected but never other immune people.

Don't know why this myth is still around.
May 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
In the real world? Yes It's fucked. This isn't the real world. We know Ellie waned to be the cure, and if you're going to ignore that you're no better then the Doc

Even if we went by real world logic, the minor's guardian would get final say on medical decisions, which would be Marlene. not Joel
May 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Did the doctor ignore Ellie's wishes and choose to operate on her anyway? Absolutely. He should have gotten her consent but he didn't and he died for it.

Did Joel ruin a chance at a cure and murder innocent lives? And ignore Ellie's wishes? Absolutely, and he died for that too.
May 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Right. It's an apocalypse. It's a fungus zombie apocalypse. You can't selectively apply real world science here. In this fictional zombie story, a fictional cure was going to be made from Ellie. She consented to it as an adult, and given the option, would have done so at 14.
May 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I played both games multiple times. Ellie is brash and impulsive but also way smarter then a girl her age usually is due to her situation. She also confirms, as a 19 year-old, in the second game, that she wanted to be the cure for humanity, so clearly this wasn't an impulsive decision for her.
May 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I mean we don't care that the 14 year-old kills infected monsters and other human beings...but we draw the line at her consenting to being the cure for humanity?

Yes, she should have had the say. Absolutely, but she DOES have her say. The second game is her having her say.
May 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
And both of them died for it.
May 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This was 10 years ago but I went to Sheridan in Canada.

My main takeaway was the resources + constantly drawing daily improved my drawing skills like crazy and the networking was super helpful.

My student debt was also ‘only’ 30K and I paid it off so worth it for me personally.
May 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
You’re probably already going to do this but everyone I know who’s been always recomended just going into any pubs that have live music going. Always a good time apparently.

Also I’m super jealous! I’ve been wanting to go for years.
May 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Putting my vote in to make that happen after work tonight.
April 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The entire point of a moral dilemma is there is no “good” option. It’s a dilemma.

That’s what makes the ending of the first game so heavily discussed even to this day.

What Joel did wasn’t necessarily “good” or “bad” but it WAS understandable.
April 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I mean is it an overly simplified example of a moral dilemma? Sure.

But considering how there’s still people saying things like “what Joel did is good actually because….” And then make up some excuse…maybe it wasn’t simplified enough.
April 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM