Asklemmy

43837 readers

679 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

So ya'll been playing the game (life) so far, what did you do to make your character (you) unique? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by red_pigeon@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

38 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What is it then?

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's just a story, enjoy it while it lasts and don't be a villain in anyone else's story.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Don't you enjoy games while they last and in most games try to be "not a villain" as well? :D

Games also most often tell a story through their gameplay.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I would say that there is a difference in strongly narrative games where you're playing mostly for the story (i.e. things like Baldur's Gate) and games where the story helps build an engaging world (i.e. good MMOs)... Life is an almost entirely narrative experience, it's good to avoid poverty and the like but there is no scoring system at the end that matters... Money, Power, Accolades, (meaningless) Children - they mean nothing. At the end of your life the only persistent value you should care about is how your life impacted others.

Did you ruin the days or lives of others? Did you help others live good lives and write positive stories of their own? That's fucking it.

When playing a board game with my friends I, personally, love to be a villain because it makes a fun story to get lost in for an afternoon... But I would never choose to purposefully put another person through unnecessary strife.

Ed: I revised "Children" to "(meaningless) Children" because some people treat reproduction like a goal and parent dozens of neglected children and that's what I wanted to call out. If you decide to become a parent and help your child to have a wonderful life that's obviously a fucking awesome thing - but you can have relationships like that even without physically reproducing.