#Ethics in games

[prokopetz]

What I really appreciate about The Talos Principle 2 is that big chunks of its writing genuinely read like they were written by someone who's personally had to justify the discipline of philosophy to a STEM major. "There exists an implicit moral algorithm in the structure of the cosmos, but actually solving that algorithm to determine the correct course of action in any given circumstance a priori would require more computational power than exists in the universe. Thus, as we must when faced with any computationally intractable problem, we fall back on heuristic approaches; these heuristics are called 'ethics'." is a fascinating way of framing it, but then I ask why would you explain it like that, and every possible answer is hilarious.

#gaming #video games #the talos principle 2 #the talos principle #philosophy #ethics #computer science #stem #the talos principle 2 spoilers #the talos principle spoilers #spoilers

[slitherpunk]

going to break into the piracy discourse and argue that it isn't ethical to buy a AAA video game. you shouldn't give them your money. it's only ethical to play if you pirate it.

#best course scenario you just don't play AAA games but if you absolutely have to then you shouldn't spend your money #if only piracy actually was stealing. that would be the MOST ethical. stealing from these companies is the most ethical course of action

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

yall like to pretend that "don't split up" is the most obvious rule in any horror scenario, but what's the alternative? stick together and cooperate ? to find a solution? in a life-or-death situation??? babe surely you have been in enough group projects to guess how that shit ends

#honestly would prefer to try to strike a work-study deal with the Killer #rather than team up with your average group of horror movie characters #listen. the Killer has their shit together. they've planned this. they have clear goals. they have tools. they have a timeline. #whereas the So-Called Protagonists decided it would be 'fun' to get drunk in a cabin in the woods with no cell reception #honestly i'm siding with the Killer on this one. at some point that's fair game. ethically sourced murder victims

[nonasuch]

I’m not going anywhere with this but it’s a thought I had.

#game of thrones #tortall #an meme #i just think that in order to do ethical fantasy feudalism you might need an eldritch box that judges your fitness to wield state power

[waterdeep]

DOCTOR CASPER DARLING IN CONTROL (2019)

#controledit #control #casper darling #matthew porretta #remedyverse #gamingedit #dailyvideogames #m* #m*gaming #m*control #video games #vg: control #ch: casper darling #thelvadams #miyku #userwolfkissed #useravallachs #mistress light #ayrennaranaaldmeri #userbamf #userzahrahydris #userimogen #userfray #idk who is interested in control gifs so 🤷 #his dorky vibes / enthusiasm / sometimes ethically questionable actions #they have captivated me

[amberultramarine]

the dunmeshi gang heading down to get falin while zagreus is on his way out

#art #fan art #digital art #my art #hades game #dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #is it ethical to eat anything in the underworld?? they're all souls of real people vs just being monsters/animals #hell if they know #zagreus: huh. how was asterius & theseus? don't think they would've just let you guys down here. wait gods you didn't EAT asterius did you #laios: oh nah marcille wouldn't let us. also they were pretty nice at least we had a conversation before they tried to kill us

[yourleftpinkytoe-blog]

God I wish more fics would include Andrew’s weird ass eating habits.

#like nobody talks about how he’s borderline vegetarian #(not for moral or ethical reasons but cause he doesn’t like the texture) #like he’s so me coded #I need people to talk about his subway order #lettuce and jalapeño #he’s such a little freak #i love him #aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #andrew minyard #the foxes #neil josten #andreil

[basuralindo]

it absolutely kills me when fandom depicts bloodweave with Gale as the anxious rule abiding one that gets flustered over any crime worse than jaywalking, while Astarion is all crime and malice and not having fun unless he's breaking rules

like

have you guys heard of facades?

one of them spent his childhood obsessively hunting for ever more new and exciting ways to defy the laws of nature and his parents, became part of an exclusive circle of people who notoriously hold themselves above the rules for the sake of fucking around and finding out. proceeded to find that environment too stifling, decided to ignore their rules too, and fucked around so hard he ended up doomed for defying his own chosen god. and still didn't learn.

The other one was studying hard to make a prestigious career of upholding the law, and only turned to crime after centuries of desperation and no alternative. he's not even good at mugging.

if those two were trying to do something illegal and dangerous, Astarion would talk a big game until they actually got down to business, then watch in horror as Gale runs headlong into some life threatening bullshit with all the energy of a kid at disneyland

#remember them encountering the devil? #remember astarion having a sincere panic after? #remember gale getting all hype over it cause he wanted to beat the devil at his own game? #wizards aren't shy nerds. wizards are the embodiment of hubris with no ethics or safety precautions #that's kind of their Thing #bloodweave #bg3 #gale and astarion

[drmajalis]

If you have been thinking of modding your 3ds, DO NOT UPDATE IT.

It's likely that the homebrew team will break this new level of security in a few months, but, goddamn it really shows how much Nintendo spites their own players to mod a system they don't even support anymore to make it harder to play games AFTER shutting down the eshop.

Fuck Nintendo, pirate all of their games, don't give them a fucking cent.

#nintendo #3ds #piracy #it is always ethical to steal from nintendo #they could be making so much money if they just let people buy their games #but instead they disney vault everything #so fuck em #rob them blind

[honey-marrow]

tea ef 2

#team fortress 2 #anemoart #sollydemo #demosolly #tf2 solider #tf2 demoman #tf2 heavy #tf2 scout #though very small #tf2 pyro #pyro being ceo of a company is not talked enough about #what was their thought process thorugh it all #furthermore how??? #anyway pyro should be the president #the tf2 hype is back and tbh im ashamed i havent drawn the mercs sooner ive been so infatuated by the game again #its like eating chocolate for the first time again #ANYWAY.. demosolly is real and ethical

[hajihiko]

back off our boy!

#Yes yes you're in love with Hajime. Bitch we all are!! Play nice or ELSE #Sdr2 #Super danganronpa 2 #Danganronpa 2 #Danganronpa #danganronpa 2 goodbye despair #Hajime hinata #nagito komaeda #Sonia nevermind #Akane owari #Kazuichi Souda #Fuyuhiko kuzuryu #Their endless weird unhealthy flirting game is ended by the power of : #Friends Who Want What's Best For You (And May Be A Bit Overprotective) #Once again I feel u must clarify. I'm not like a vicious hater of the ship or anything #I think they (and chiaki) make the most sense as love interests #I just also believe they're very unhealthy for one another and need like t years of therapy before they should ethically try dating at all #Sometimes people can have feelings and be back for each other and that's a fun thing to roll around and analyze imo!

[spyramy]

Seen at local Brighton gaming bar 🕺🍸🍑

#disco elysium #brighton #loading bar #ethics of basing a cocktail on a game about a man dying of alcoholis

[bingusrapture]

Nobody:

Absolutely nobody at all:

President Snow when creating District 12: The children yearn for the mines

#they really do #trust me i am ethical child labor expert #the children yearn for the mines #hunger games #the hunger games #president snow #katniss everdeen #bingusrapture thoughts

[like-a-ruby]

came across a reddit thread in which a bunch of men discussed a video game where the player can punish or reward little nonhuman creatures in order to train them, and someone said it disturbed him to learn that some players punish the creatures more than is needed, because they (the players) just seem to enjoy it. this triggered a debate on whether it’s unethical or no big deal to hurt virtual creatures who don’t feel pain and aren’t sentient, and the consensus was that it’s wrong, because it’s not about whether the creature feels pain or minds being punished, it’s about the fact that the player enjoys doing this to them and that means something is wrong with him

what are the odds that this random sample of men on reddit are anti-prostitution activists and tell their male friends there’s something wrong with them if they watch porn? lol their thread literally sounded like a radfem post about how it doesn’t matter if a woman in porn / prostitution / bdsm consents to what’s being done to her or claims to enjoy being degraded, it’s about men’s enjoyment of practices that degrade and hurt women, and what it means. turns out men perfectly understand the concept, they just don’t think it applies to these topics because they feel more empathy towards nonsentient nonhuman video game creatures than towards women

#'men aren't clueless they don't just care' will always be my hill to die on #i don't really care about the ethics of how you act in video games it's just fascinating to see men have a whole serious discussion #about it among themselves in a way they never do about how they act irl towards women

[lucky-clover-gazette]

something something commodification of adolescent nostalgia packaging the timeless joy of self-insert fictional escapism into a soulless $60 product

#in my day we had to imagine and draw and write our unique fantasy lives at hogwarts #and for me it was a formative creative experience #there are many more glaring and ethically unacceptable things about the game but it has always conceptually bothered me #a harry potter rpg? bestie fans have been roleplaying their hogwartsonas since the books came out #their creativity is the real magic #hogwarts legacy

[fashionsfromhistory]

🔥 polyester

ugggh if you would have asked me a couple years ago I would have given a more neutral answer but now that I've started wearing more natural fibers I want to kill it with fire. Polyester has its place, but I'm begging the fashion industry to stop making summer clothes with poly because ya gal is a sweater

#CACKLING love this question #asks and such #ask game #the struggle of being plus sized and finding ethical clothes is REAL