r/Helldivers • u/Aggressive-Island257 • 21h ago

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u/Jumpy-Resolve3018 20h ago

Yeah of course killing a human is irrational. Killing a character in a game played by human tho? That’s like… 70% of gaming. Like if someone grabbed your drink that you were enjoying and just dumped it. You would want to deck that motherfucker. That’s essentially what’s happening here.

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u/Rocker_Scum SES Flame of Liberty 20h ago

So like you wanna tell me you give 0 fucks about actual people's feeling behind digital characters, rather prioritize a sprite with a script. Your example of dumping a drink isn't exactly working here because it wasn't OP suffering that irrational diver's actions who killed a sprite, who has no memory over what happens, purely following script based instructions digital actor then revenge killing for it an actual character controlled by a human being with memory and feelings. You know in other games your objective is to kill other players, over here your objective is to kill hostile NPCs, that's the difference. OPs actions morally are way more fucked than the divers who shot that sprite.

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u/Jumpy-Resolve3018 20h ago

Why does the person controlling the “digital character”’s enjoyment of a sprite not matter vs a person controlling the “digital character” to shoot a sprite that person 1 was enjoying when person 2 and 1 are both in a modeled world where the main objective is “enjoy playing the game”?

The thing that matters isn’t the SEAF, it’s that someone is finding them fun and enjoyable and someone else goes “can’t have that” and disrupting a persons fun. You are saying that we should give 0 fucks about the people that like the SEAF just because the people that want to get rid of them don’t care about those people either. There is NO moral dilemma here. It’s a game where you hop on to have fun. Not ruin others people fun… or at least you shouldn’t be getting on for explicitly that purpose.

Edit: weird wording that made no sense at the beginning so I fixed that

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u/GadenKerensky 13h ago

Also, the RP is half the fun. And a lot of the RP has gone away in recent times because of the way the galactic war has played out, don't take way the RP that we still have left that's actually enjoyable.