RagnarokOnline

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What was a profound moment that a video game caused you to experience, and why? (reddthat.com)
 

The moment that inspired this question:

A long time ago I was playing an MMO called Voyage of the Century Online. A major part of the game was sailing around on a galleon ship and having naval battles in the 1600s.

The game basically allowed you to sail around all of the oceans of the 1600s world and explore. The game was populated with a lot of NPC ships that you could raid and pick up its cargo for loot.

One time, I was sailing around the western coast of Africa and I came across some slavers. This was shocking to me at the time, and I was like “oh, I’m gonna fuck these racist slavers up!”

I proceed to engage the slave ship in battle and win. As I approach the wreckage, I’m bummed out because there wasn’t any loot. Like every ship up until this point had at least some spare cannon balls or treasure, but this one had nothing.

… then it hit me. A slave ship’s cargo would be… people. I sunk this ship and the reason there wasn’t any loot was because I killed the cargo. I felt so bad.

I just sat there for a little while and felt guilty, but I always appreciated that the developers included that detail so I could be humbled in my own self-righteousness. Not all issues can be solved with force.

Germany begins dismantling wind farm for coal in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

I think this headline is misleading.

A better headline might read: “Coal found beneath wind farm. Turbines dismantled to make room for mining operation.”

Ocean heat around Florida is ‘unprecedented,’ and scientists are warning of major impacts in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I’m not denying climate change. I was recently in Florida and it is, indeed, hot af.

The article is saying that there’s evidence that the heat is causing coral to die. They really don’t know the extent of the impact.

Vague article titles are just a pet peeve of mine. This whole article could have been summed up in less than 3 sentences.

Quote:

That would mean “significant and severe” bleaching will start in the next week and the coral could start to die altogether within a month, he said.

“It still remains to be seen if this event is going to be more or less severe than previous events,” Manzello said. “However, all of the evidence right now is pointing to the fact that it’s going to be one of the more severe events we’ve seen.”