I can still get frustrated, but I don't get frustrated at the game or at other people so much as I get frustrated at myself for my own failures. I don't mind loosing, but loosing over and over and over makes me start to feel inadequate and personally insulted, and my response is to get frustrated at my own incompetence. I have largely learned to shut off my connection of self worth with my successes or failures, but it has taken awhile.
Kudos on the show. I think that humans will try, as the good Oxford Dr said, to push in the direction of full body-manchine-mind interfaces. I shudder to think what will happen if a terrorist assassin is augmented. Imagine a "suicide" bomber that can be repaired and used again, this time with more experience. In many cases the augmentation research will succeed, so instead of despairing over what once was or fighting to stop the change, I think that people need to instead focus on adapting the culture and treating augmented people as humanly as possible. Perhaps we can avoid destroying ourselves completely, but perhaps not. It is worth trying.
The best part of the video was the background. There is that one dude to the left and behind the bushes who is there the entire time, then there are the people with the "Kneel Before Zod!" and "Galactus is Nigh!" signs.
But if the moon was blown up, we would never know the answer to that mysterious question, "If the moon were made of barbeque spare ribs, and you were starving, would you eat it?" Also, one of my issues with creating a fantasy world is that humanity has spent a long time trying to make itself better, with variable results depending on the subject matter. One common theme in fantasy games is that the world isn't exactly peachy, and monster try to eat you, maim you, destroy your hometown and loved ones, and other humanoids may beat you half to death and either leave you to die or take you as a slave. If we happened to be the most powerful two-legged being on the planet, things would be better, but then it becomes your responsibility to kill all the bad guys. It would be difficult to live knowing that your hand had put to death hundreds, or thousands, of other humans, even if they deserved it. I think that the real world as fantasy is best left in the what-if machine, because most of it sounds like the stone-bronze ages to me. I would rather be a water bender. So much cooler, if you catch my drift.
I think wealthy and technologically advanced countries will pursue robots in an attempt to save their own people from the realities of war, but a downside is that war becomes impersonal. It doesn't happen all at once, but very gradually. Will robots ever fully replace humans on the battlefield? I don't think so, but I also don't think that humanity, as a whole, will be able to help everyone overcome their hatred of others and their thirst for revenge, destruction, and war, robots or no robots. I think these war games explore some important concepts, but it is also important to consider WHY people go to war in the first place and decide that certain other humans are better off dead.
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