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originally posted in: A missing sense of fear in Destiny
6/6/2013 10:44:43 AM
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Well, we haven't really seen the game yet, much less played it so it is difficult to say. We also have to keep in mind that Bungie may not be trying to push the "horror" aspects of this game too much. I am as much a fan of PE, RE and DS as the next guy but I don't think that such a world would work here. You mention that the human species is on the brink of extinction. Well that has been true for as long as any of these people have been alive. At this point it is just a daily fact of life. Humans adapt to their situation. They desensitize themselves to that environment and make that "normal". We don't wake up in the morning and hide indoors, avoiding human contact as much as possible for fear of the black plague. That isn't a part of our normal world, go back a few hundred years and it would have been different. When I was spending time with a Bedouin tribe I noticed a distinct lack of them worrying about things such as social media, what movies were coming out to theaters, games on the horizon, what some guys were doing in some office a thousand miles away. Sure they had mobile phones and access to all of that if they wanted to venture into a town or city but it just never seemed to occur to them to worry about it. They knew about it, intellectually they had no problem understanding any of it. Hell some of them had Facebook with quite a friends-list. It just wasn't a part of their "world", or something that was important to their daily lives. In my 3 years in Iraq I saw people going on about their daily lives as if the world had always been this way. Once again they knew it hadn't and that it would change more over time. Most that I talked to had hope for the future regardless of how bad things were at the time. Seems to be a part of the human condition that, hope for the future. Everywhere I have ever gone people generally have that in some form or another. Anyway, put us in any environment long enough and we adjust to that environment. Do that over a few generations and the way things were becomes a distant memory. We have today, this is how it is, maybe we can make it a better tomorrow. Anywho, people wouldn't "worry" as much about extinction because they never knew a world where the population of humans was say 7 billion. To them the population has probably been fairly stable, or even growing. As to the combat with monsters thing. Once again you would become desensitized. You spend long enough getting almost dead, or having things try to make you that way you start to separate out the things based on level of danger. With my unit in Iraq we sort of went- AK fire = not so bad, RPK = bad, Dragunov = worse, mortars = worse yet, RPGs = very bad, directed explosives/IED = chance that the whole day had gone to hell. Given that we were wearing body armor and that most people firing small arms in our general direction were pretty much untrained, it wasn't as big a threat as long as you didn't start dancing out in the open. Explosives on the other hand, well those are different and they care a lot less about the armor you have on. You can get relatively used to that sort of life though. It becomes "the way things are". Hell for the first two months after My wife and I came back to the US she had to do the driving, and she had never driven here before. I had a lot of bad habits, but I got them in what was "the normal world" for me and it took time for this life to become normal again. Actually all of that kind of stuff along with learning about cultures is what got me interested in Psychology and Anthropology. These days that is what I do. Errr, I suddenly feel the need to apologize a bit, I rambled on there for a while. Not even sure it had much to do with the topic. I thought I was cutting myself off a bit more than I was. As on of my favorite authors has said "It can take me three pages just to clear my throat", though I try to keep that to a minimum on forums. Sorry again folks.
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