I'm saying the manufacture of a cure is nowhere NEAR the most pressing issue facing society, but it fills a vast *symbolic* role in their world by promising them a return to the Good Old Days.
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Replying to @rootlessmrgimm @loudpenitent and
Yeah the idea that we can wait for a vaccine until civilization is rebuilt is kind of insane The lack of a vaccine is one of the single biggest obstacles to rebuilding civilization All the resources you need to do any of that shit are covered with spores
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Strong disagree. And in any case, any vaccine? Will literally take *generations* to distribute. If the Fireflies do it at all. Instead of, oh, I don't know, using their immunity to rise to political dominance.
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Having some class of people who is immune greatly increases the possibility there will be human beings at all within a few generations, whether or not they become a tyrannical ruling class
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Like I don't know why you're arguing so hard for an optimism the game very clearly tries to squash The Fireflies are the only hope that this won't be the last generation of humanity People who don't believe in the Fireflies are people who accept humanity's extinction
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
That's what the title of the game refers to, that's why it's called The Last Of Us
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
We can argue about the specifics of whether this apocalypse makes sense but a ton of what this kind of setting is about is the idea that high-tech civilization is really fucking fragile Everything depends on systems layered on systems layered on systems
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
So, yes, the Fireflies really are running out of time The world is filled with machines that are breaking down and can't be fixed once they do, resources that will get used up and can't be renewed If there's no vaccine now there probably will never be one
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If an army of vaccinated soldiers can't be raised within a generation to clear the Infected hives from the cities, there probably won't ever be one A generation from now it'll be the Clickers clearing out the survivors instead
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I mean this is a bit of ludonarrative consonance, this is reflected in the gameplay This is why all your weapons have extremely limited ammo or they break after a few uses, and you constantly have to scrounge for supplies to make more
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You just set the damn cities on fire, Arthur.
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