And obviously she can't get infected with the regular strain, we've seen her get bit more than once So it makes sense that humans just have to become a human/inert cordyceps symbiosis now
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @muddlewait
What's not clear to me is how Ellie knows she's not transmitting it (and whether Jerry considered this). She knows her girlfriends haven't become Runners; I don't see how she could know they're not infected with her strain
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @muddlewait
Which means that if it's sexually transmitted (honestly unlikely with cordyceps, it infects bone and the game acknowledged this) she might have infected Dina and JJ might have been born immune. Also, Abby could definitely have it, and with her it's more likely
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @muddlewait
I dunno, it initially infected people by them eating it Although there's some implication I guess that this only happened because they'd been unwittingly consuming it for a long time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait
Sure, but bites are also 100% infectious in lore, so Ellie biting Abby would presumably possibly make her infected unless Ellie's strain isn't transmissible (which if so is weird)
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If you mean re: the STI thing, I mean, we see people breathing some spores in visible spore-clouded air and it's not a definite infection; I feel like sex juices, bluntly, probably contain very few spores
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Also, you eat food with your teeth, which are bone, so that could be how it started. Not in the blood, but the bone
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @muddlewait
You could take a significant sample of bone from someone without killing them Even losing an arm is better than death
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I mean none of these examples satisfy me that they go together with the ending of TLoU 1 If you don't actually have to get the fungus out of the brain for the cure to be possible at all then Jerry is just an idiot as well as a monster
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It's a bit of a problem only because the ending of TLOU 1 is strained and doesn't really support leaning on its mechanics so much. I mean, there's technically no reason they couldn't have waited for Ellie to die of natural causes and harvest the fungus *then*.
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...Because that could take like 60 years?
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I mean, yeah, but a as a chain of events the fact that it is possible makes not asking for Ellie's consent weirder. And that's before they decided to tell Joel before they did it. It's just hard to build a whole franchise on that one poorly designed event.
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I mean is it really so hard to believe that, especially given the dialogue from the audio logs in 1 and in the flashbacks in 2, that the Fireflies were tired of violence for a noble goal and just wanted to do one more atrocity and be finished?
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