Thursday 30 August, 2018

Play session 3: I'm getting better at this game i feel like. Taking a lot less damage and hitting perfect dodges more and more and flowing attacks in after and finishers. Maybe its easy cause its the beginning of the game? Maybe not. Who knows. There is an android resistance camp on earth that we went down to help. They are not the same kind of combat model androids that 2B and S9 are. They are more like civilian androids. We went to help the camp and upgrade some gear and such and we got a quest from the leader to go out into the desert to kill some machines. Some of the machines are docile and not moving so should i feel bad killing them if they pose no threat to me? Other machines are aggressive and attack androids. But we came across one machine that was scared of us. It ran away saying, "run, scared, androids, help" and we followed it leaving destruction in our wake, mindless killing of the aggressive and docile machines, and the machine lead us to a pit filled with other machines like it. One was saying, "Child, child, child.." and rocking a crib back and forth, others were mimicking humans having sex, is what it looked like to me. Then one that was doing neither of these things set them off and we killed more and more of them. It's just mindless, do they have feelings? I'm not quite sure how to feel about what i stumbled across. Until, they banded together and "gave birth" and created a humanoid kind of machine/figure. I don't really know what to call it. But it was smart and and was learning from the combat and progressing and countering the attacks until we killed it. And then out of its corpse it gave birth to another humanoid thing just like it. Why? What is it? It can almost be compared to society and how our technology is quickly advancing and maybe someday like in Nier, will technology take over us? Theres more examples than just Nier. Theres all sorts of movies like The Terminator, Wall-E, or games like Detroit: Become Human where there is the possibility of Androids taking over Humanity.

Good work Brennan! You have some good ethical questions here mostly revolving around what level of attachment the player and/or player character has to the machines they fight and how this affects the ethics of how the player interacts with these machines. This is a good start for constructing your OPA.