Since a meaningful decision, whatever that may look like, is not possible, I feel that the designers should have taken the opportunity to educate the players with the quest. Or just leave it out entirely.

I do not think that the WoW quest designers actively wanted to tell us that “torture is good”, they just carelessly threw something together.

Players, by and large, do not feel dirty after torturing the NPC - the discussion on the quest issue has shown this. You may want to check on the Milgram experiment to see why. It is quite frightening.

shrug I dunno. Maybe they’re pro-torture people who are trying to convey the glory of the act. but it doesn’t really sound like it… it sounds like they have spawned a discussion that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

oh. and yes. I’m rather naive :)

Had you actually bothered to READ that posting, you would have understood that I was merely pointing to someone else’s work.

Good luck with your project - you will need it.

I liked the art on the top of the website very much. What was the theme ?

Someone was randomly googling my name and sent me over this link, so I thought I would drop a line.

Good to know that people all this time later still enjoy the sets I used to do on EVE Radio.

I am currently in the studio working on some original tracks and am still DJing here in Los Angeles.

Hopefully I will get some time to DJ online again soon. ;)

Anyhow, just wanted to drop a line and say thank you for the kind words on my old ER sets, and am glad that people are still getting enjoyment out of them.

Keep in touch!

DJ RiSC

Perdro, this is a pulp-style swords & planet setting. Of course there will be “black and white” good guys and bad guys, but give me a bit more credit - naturally I will blur the lines here and there. Makes for better stories, and besides, how can you have meaningful betrayal without moral ambiguity?

I think you just wrote my post on the subject.

Only I didn’t need sugar.

The pressure valves for the exhaust of the generator are an excellent point though. As written in my story, the shelter would not only have to serve as a fallout shelter but also as a blast shelter, and that would require such precautions. I am wondering how susceptible the generator itself would be to damage from pressure differences. It might be feasible to simply keep it outside the “secured” part of the bunker.

With that said, to have a diesel powered engine to create power could lead to a breach in the envelope. I agree that it is far better to have a generator for electricity, but it must be so planned with an overpressure valve on the exhaust portal so that the negative pressure after a NBC event would not suction out all of the oxygen; killing the inhabitants.

keep up the good work!

Besides I can’t really add that little stats thing to my blog.