Westenev
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Got to love Dachshunds.
I know it probably sounds bad, but they've always looked funny to me. Their body proportions are... bizarre.
I hate those things.
On a slightly different note, is it just me, or is there a re-emergence of anti-violence and anti-gore in video games? For example, the trailer for The Last of Us part 2 was criticized for being too gory and thus senseless. I will admit I never cared about those kinds of games, I am not interested in them, and I don’t consider The Last of Us a masterpiece, but a rather boring thing I won’t ever bother playing. I did not watch everything, but the trailer for part 2 looked pretty cool, and the graphics are superb.
But, compared to historical accounts I’ve read, especially from the Middle Ages, The Last of Us 2 is quite civil. Oh look, a guy gets hung and gutted, did you know that people were tied to a ladder, partly skinned alive, then had most of their internal organs cut out then put in a fire, while they were still alive? Or that people were sometimes tied upside-down into an X-shape then sawed in half starting from the groin? Or, that there was a German criminal who cut pregnant women’s foetuses out and ate them? Or one commander who fought alongside Joan of Arc killed several hundred children by disembowelment and hung their organs around his house? Or Vlad Dracul had entire families vertically impaled, including women and children? Or that there were female executioners? Or that 'tormentor' is a historical occupation (a torturer and executioner)?
Honestly, I think I am figuring out why people tend to dislike history, or aren’t interested in it: they are traumatized by it. Far easier to criticize video games, because they’re fake. I wonder how such critics would fare reading history. I bet they'd shit themselves. Ha!
Got to love Dachshunds.
I know it probably sounds bad, but they've always looked funny to me. Their body proportions are... bizarre.
I hate those things.
On a slightly different note, is it just me, or is there a re-emergence of anti-violence and anti-gore in video games? For example, the trailer for The Last of Us part 2 was criticized for being too gory and thus senseless. I will admit I never cared about those kinds of games, I am not interested in them, and I don’t consider The Last of Us a masterpiece, but a rather boring thing I won’t ever bother playing. I did not watch everything, but the trailer for part 2 looked pretty cool, and the graphics are superb.
But, compared to historical accounts I’ve read, especially from the Middle Ages, The Last of Us 2 is quite civil. Oh look, a guy gets hung and gutted, did you know that people were tied to a ladder, partly skinned alive, then had most of their internal organs cut out then put in a fire, while they were still alive? Or that people were sometimes tied upside-down into an X-shape then sawed in half starting from the groin? Or, that there was a German criminal who cut pregnant women’s foetuses out and ate them? Or one commander who fought alongside Joan of Arc killed several hundred children by disembowelment and hung their organs around his house? Or Vlad Dracul had entire families vertically impaled, including women and children? Or that there were female executioners? Or that 'tormentor' is a historical occupation (a torturer and executioner)?
Honestly, I think I am figuring out why people tend to dislike history, or aren’t interested in it: they are traumatized by it. Far easier to criticize video games, because they’re fake. I wonder how such critics would fare reading history. I bet they'd shit themselves. Ha!
17-Jul-2018 08:51:25 - Last edited on 17-Jul-2018 08:52:54 by Azi Demonica
