i was playing dwarf fortress and watching some of my miners in the caverns when i get this message in bright red text:
Kol Sigunerib, Cook cancels Render Fat: Unconscious.
naturally i think “what could POSSIBLY have made this guy unconscious in the process of doing kitchen work???”
so i zoom to the unconscious cook and am met with this.
the cook is in the kitchen in the top left, which is red because it’s literally drenched in his blood. there is actual fucking blood. bar brawl???
i check the combat report that apparently came in, and find the name of the person who beat him up: it was a wrestler gal from one of my military squads. she just fucking PUNCHED THE SHIT out of this cook.
and was exhilarated over it.
i proceed to have a bit of an allcaps outburst in #dwarffortress on the roguelikes discord.
then i decide to check the “Justice” status tab and... apparently there was a Violation of Production Order crime for which that cook got pinned. and the injured party? why, it’s the mayor of course. she was the one who issued the mandate that was never fulfilled!
the cook had to be taken to the hospital, that’s how severe the beating was.
this kind of shit can literally ONLY happen in dwarf fortress. what other game has such frighteningly complex interactions between characters???
Far be it from me to say that moral panics in any way make sense, but it's still funny in hindsight how much of a moral panic there was over the Mortal Kombat fatalities, because a lot of these are really silly.
"How many ribcages does a person have Ed?" "Oh, I don't know, three, maybe four..."
Some book I read in ESO's talking about Giants and its saying something along the lines of: 'yeah they'll kill you if you harass them, but we do that too. they're definitely people even if we can't talk to them. They eat the mammoths they herd, but I've never heard of a Giant eating a Nord.'
Well idk if the author also considers Orcs to be people, but, update lol:
[ID: a picture of the game Skyrim, showing a human shaped silhouette on a spit in front of a massive bonfire. End ID.]
RIP.
At least one of the Giants cooks and eats other people, specifically Orcs since the Giant had come in and taken over a shrine to Malacath. The whole scene felt very personal, I wonder what Malacath did to warrant that kind of revenge.
It's too bad we never get to learn anything about the Giants in Skyrim. I think in ESO the new expansions dealing with Sea Giants, but I can't afford to buy it. Maybe at some point they'll give it to us for free.
I feel like folks who are disappointed that trying to escalate physical confrontations in Disco Elysium often results in Harry getting clowned regardless of how many points you put into physical skills are not fully grasping the "you are a middle-aged alcoholic with a heart condition who is currently experiencing the withdrawal symptoms of every drug" dimension of the game's premise.
Yay, I did it - Happy Halloween!🎃 I hope you enjoyed my little dark edgy story!
If they decide to sacrifice everyone, but stay together, I always imagined them to be the perfect worst corrupted couple, yet equal, manipulating in turns when the other one is not looking haha
Not quite sure of Gale is a bit too much of a hypocrite in this one but I like to put wise words into his mouth lol
Also I had to put Karlach in this one because I wanted the whole group to be there >:(
"Have you forgotten sir, we were at war? A fight with an alien race for the very survival of our species. I feel I must remind you that it is an undeniable, and may I say fundamental quality of man, that when faced with extinction, every alternative is preferable."
"When you spend every day fighting a war, you to demonize your attackers. To you, they're evil, they're subhuman. Because if they weren't, what would that make you? What I'm trying to say... is I've been afraid to see you for what you really are. You're our brothers. Our sisters. And the things we've done to one another are unforgivable."
"These guys want to use us, take us away from our families, and send us all over the dad-gum galaxy just to test if their agents are ready for the big fight? Well... guess I'm interested in showin' em exactly what a big fight is all about! So I'm not ordering you to go. I ain't even asking. You do what you gotta do, Private."
came from the same series whose standard fare is lines like:
"What in the hell are you two doing?" / "We're being executed by our own men, sir." / "Cut it out."
"I only drink the blood of my enemies, and the occasional strawberry yoohoo."
"You always said I could sleep when I’m dead, Sarge, and guess what? I am dead. This purgatory is about to become purga-snore-y, yawn!"
...and both categories manage to be a poignant statement about the nature of war and what it does to the people in it.