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.

  •  Scary le Poo   ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 
    6•8 months ago

    Stray. Honestly the entire game.

    I am a cat dad to 3 cats and I rescue anywhere from 1 - 5 alley cats every year. I take them in, clean them up, get them spay/neuter and their vaccines and find them homes.

    That game captures cats so incredibly well. The entire game was a pleasure, but there are a few moments that stick out to me.

    Spoilers

    At the beginning when he falls and is separated from his friends.

    The way that the guardians react to him.

    The desperation of being so incredibly close to freeing them and so nearly being thwarted.

    But most of all, when his friend dies and when the ceiling opens.

    And last but not least, at the very end he sniffs the air and smells his friends.

    So some god amongst men on YouTube did the painstaking work of figuring out where stray fell, and where he exited and found that stray exited only a 20 second walk from where his home was, and towards his home is the direction he took at the end (but the game doesn’t tell you this).

    That game was the most wonderful and amazing experience I have had in a game since I can remember. I cannot recommend it enough.