Conversation Between Karifean and Wolf Kanno

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  1. I've played maybe twenty minutes of it, and put it aside because the hype was still a bit too strong for my taste. I have it one Steam, and need to get around to it, but it just hasn't been a priority for me at the moment as I have older games to play, and a general aversion to gaming on my PC.
  2. Haha yeah, been there myself. Btw on topic of games where people say they live up to the hype, you've yet to play Undertale, right?
  3. Lol, I guess it is amusing to hear me be causal about it. You should have listened to me back when I first played it.
  4. "Pretty good" yeah lol
  5. Yeah, it's a pretty good game and the pedigree of it still shows.
  6. Cool video ^^ thanks. Yeah Chrono Trigger is just that one gem of old times where people consistently seem to be perfectly in sync saying it's not nostalgia value, it just really is that good and does still hold up today so well. Me being one of those ^^
  7. True, but as I said, you need both. Without emotion to drive an idea, nothing would change.

    I feel the real issue with people and their inability to make the best choices sometimes stems from how their lives can be. Its hard to care about bigger topics when the mundane bulltrout of your own life saps the will to really consider it. Even a person of low intelligence and schooling could become a philosopher or political thinker if they had the time to think about it instead of worrying about bills, work, and family drama. I feel the real issue is that people in more technological advanced and driven societies are simply overloaded with information and problems that it becomes easier for them to align with a charismatic or emotional plea rather than take the time to consider all the possibilities of a complex idea/solution.

    Most politicians know they simply need to say they have a plan to solve a problem. They don't need to explain the logistics of it to the public, just say they have one and convey it as simple as possible. It's how you get demagogues like Trump and Boris Johnson. They just scapegoat the issues as solutions instead of tackling the real root of the problems because there is no easy solution.
  8. Yeah that is exceedingly frustrating. People are primarily emotionally driven in the end and largely do not acknowledge it. It's become hard for me to view most arguments as anything more than a clash of egos, and sadly I don't think that's inaccurate at all. The degree to which people can be biased while pretending to themselves and others that they're acting rationally is legitimately frightening at times. I suppose that one codec call from MGS2 goes into this a bit, on how much people actually avoid having their ideas be truly questioned and rather remain in a safe space where they won't have to deal with it.

    I suppose this is where the whole thing of "people should be different" not being something I believe in being tenable as a position comes into play, as I think it's more realistic and efficient to have people face and accept that this is who they are and accept that this also means they shouldn't get to have an opinion with the same weight as someone who can consider things more rationally, instead of trying to nurture everyone into being actually rational with mixed success at best.
  9. I agree that intelligence can be an aptitude. Though I often feel my real issue stems from people being unable to dislodge their feelings from their ideas. While passion is very important in order to drive an idea to the forefront of discussion and implementation; I feel its a double-edged sword in regards to making a person able to step back and compromise on a situation. I feel a lot of political conflicts within governments could be resolved better if people could remove their "all or nothing" attitude from situations because they are too emotionally invested in the outcome.
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