Those who have suffered and decided that others must suffer too because “they turned out OK” or to “toughen them up” were broken by their suffering and that’s just deeply sad.
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Simon is definitely ‘out of his depth’, and while the player is generally smarter than he is there are a couple ways I rationalized his reactions. Spoilers below contain all major plot points and I strongly recommend anyone reading this play the game.
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Simon repeatedly demonstrates he has no idea how he ‘came to be’ on PATHOS-II; he doesn’t understand the mechanisms involved in his arrival.
When/if the player discovers the recordings in Catherine’s lab, it’s up to the player to realize that Simon 1.0 lived on after his brain scan; If my memory serves correctly Simon does not comment on the events that happen after his scan. Just that there’s a recording of him.
Even all the transcripts about ‘continuity’ showed that the real people in PATHOS-II had trouble understanding the process; the person who sits in the chair is never the one that carries over. Admittedly this is the core debate of the story; people who look at it mechanically vs people who believe in a higher consciousness. I’m a mechanical guy.
In regards to his emotional outbursts on the lift; All of WAU’s creations seem to have problem regulating emotion. Speculated to be due to physical limitations of the hardware they’re trapped in. Even though Simon is the most stable, it’s still reasonable to think that there are either logical processing limitations due to his “flat scan”, or processing limitations of the cortex chip when presented with something as complicated as a human intelligence.
Even if we’re going to presume he is as Catherine described; “a sound mind in a sound body”, this could just be his breaking point. The underwater facility. WAU’s creations. The physical trauma of the train crash. The terror of being hunted by the psychotic helper robots. Maybe that’s just his limit.
That’s all in defense of Simon 3.0’s reaction about the events surrounding the powersuit.
I have no defense for his reaction at the end. From a narrative experience it makes sense that we wouldn’t immediately wake up on the ark; but he’s been through this before. Limitations aside, he’s got no excuse.
Though, this actually leads me to a side-theory about Catherine’s ultimate fate; that she seemed ‘uniquely suited’ to being trapped in an omnitool because of her lack of strong emotion - but what if she recognized the limitations of her environment? The one time she becomes truely emotional is when the omnitool dies.
1·12 days agoDidn’t the disbarring of Jack Thompson teach them anything?
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5·14 days agoI recommend BTRFS for the CON bonus.
Earlier this week I was solidly behind the workers and thought that they should hold out as long as they have to.
Now I’m waiting for a package and I demand the government immediately give in to all their demands.
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7·20 days agoReally?
The tornadoes get you before the depression does
The chamber of understanding is also pretty good.
Progressive Americans share too many values with Conservative Canadians. Sorry.
Keep in mind that they listed Canada as having non-flouride water, presumably based on the sole criteria that it’s not a national requirement. The split between communities with and without flouride in their water varies wildly by province.
10·30 days agoI honestly don’t think we would, our politicians love talk and hate action. I also can’t think of a reason why he’d visit Canada, which is probably what they’re relying on.
They don’t really care. They just want you to care. When it’s you caring it means their accusation might get rid of your candidate, when it’s you caring about their candidates record it means you’re triggered about their candidate. It’s just their way to try to control you.
I bet it’s lack of nukes.
hey now I use my yubikey all the time!
Always Remember: Democrats moving to Canada would certainly vote Conservative once eligible to do so.
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