Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.
Like he will not be happy at all.
For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.
This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others).
Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status.
And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.
I will always reblog this.
I just wanna say that the Lord of the Flies was explicitly written about high-class private school boys to make this exact point. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies partially to refute an earlier novel about this same subject: The Coral Island by
R.M. Ballantyne. Golding thought it was absolutely absurd that a bunch of privileged little shits would set up some sort of utopia, so his book shows them NOT doing that.
This is also generally true about most psychological experiments.
There’s an experiment called “The Ultimatum Game”. It goes something like this.
Subject A is given an amount of money (Say, $100).
Subject A must offer Subject B some percentage of that money.
If Subject B accepts Subject A’s offer, both get the agreed upon amount of money. If Subject B refuses, no one gets any money.
The most common result was believed to be that people favored 50/50 splits. Anything too low was rejected; people wanted fairness. This was believed to be universal.
And then a researcher went to Peru to do the experiment with members of the indigenous Machiguenga population, and was baffled to find that the results were totally different.
Because, to the Machiguenga, refusing any amount of free money (even an unfair amount) was considered crazy.
So the researcher took his work on the road (to 14 other ‘small scale’ societies and tribes) , and to his shock found the results varied wildly depending on where the test was done.
In fact, the “universal” result? Was an outlier.
And that’s the problem. 96% percent of test subjects for psychological research come from 12% of the population. Stuff that we consider to be universal facts of human nature… even things like optical illusions, just… aren’t.
You can read an article about it here. But the crux of it is that psychology is plagued with confirmation bias, and people are shaped more by their environment than we realize.
“I will admit one bit of trickery I did was, because we had a limited number of voice lines, we started doing things like making some of the main characters mute. So they’d only do like, hand gestures and symbols and non-spoken text. We were only able to get away with that for so long.” – Chris Avellone, src
damn bethesda really did all they could to fuck over obsidian on new vegas
and it didn’t even work considering none of these characters fuckin suck nearly as much as anyone in fo4
Bethesda probably thinks that 10000 lines for everything is enough for an rpg they make which would explain a hell of a lot
like how the fucking butler robot is programmed with more swear words as names for your protagonist than some npcs have lines
Obsidian was handed this restriction, on top of the existing restrictions of the engine, and made them work.
ED-E communicates more through beeping than pretty much any so-called ‘character’ in FO3. His lovability was still so strong that the final confrontation of the final DLC of the whole game hinges on ED-E and his wellbeing.
The Think Tank had to have whole conversations with you while you ‘faced’ a single character and 5 talked, and one of them can only make static noises – a damaged ‘voice module’. He participates in conversations nonetheless, and Obsidian chose to make this an opportunity for skill checks, meaning if you develop your character in a certain way you are able to understand him and you get more options in dialogue.
Christine is mute for the majority of Dead Money and talks to you through narrated hand gestures. The reason for her muteness – forced vocal surgery – is the DLC’s major plot point, and the trauma over this informs much of her character, PLUS her interactions are engaging and immersive in a pure ‘show don’t tell’ kind of way. You have to read the description, imagine a person making those gestures, and ask yourself what they want to communicate. It gets you to think, empathise, and consider what type of reaction the character you’re playing will have. Doing this through a narrated dialogue box hits it home in an old-school RPG way that trying to watch a clunky animation communicate the same never would.
Christine was so powerful as a character that fans still, to this day, discuss their disappointment over her not being reunited with your other companion who she loved and was forced away from. (Which was for technical reasons rather than narrative ones)
This is why it’s so meaningless for companies to proclaim their game contains over 50 million lines of dialogue – quantity quite simply does not matter. Fallout 4 had actors perform record amounts of dialogue and yet it managed to say comparitively little and about half of it was “my dead wife”. Obsidian were for some reason given a hard limit on recorded lines and they didn’t slim down their cast to allow for a load of padding. They turned to other means of communication, while still portraying personality and charm and made every single line count.
do u think that angels having sex with humans was seen as like beastiality in angel-world
do you think that when you reach the gates of heaven they’ll show you this post
bold of you to presume I can die
Pretty sure they actually answer this in the bible and the answer is yes. The whole ‘Lucifer and the lesser angels want have free will’ part has the ‘angels also wanting to be gendered so they can be with humans’ part in it.
god was kinkshaming satan
God got a virgin pregnant without consent, he can mind his business
She did consent tho, like, that’s a whole thing, I’ve been in masses where the main focus was Mary’s Yes. It didn’t happen without warning, an angel was literally like “hey my pal up there is thinking u should birth his humansona” and she was like “that’d be an honor”
I didn’t claw my way out of hell just to be sent back there by reading the word Humansona,
Battle Secretary is getting a limited Japanese-language release on Pixiv. I had a friend help translate a few pages of the first chapter for me, but any suggestions and critique to help improve the quality of the translation is always appreciated. Go check it out if your power levels are high enough to understand the moonrunes!
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