Mary Sue Leigh
Erudite
Well I don't know what it is with the somewhat simple ghost stuff but seeing how phasmophobia was mentioned ; I tried that too and similar games and the amount of women playing those seemed quite significant. And those are games with no story and just spooks for the sake of being spooky. I haven't checked but I'd assume you'll find a majority of female streamers for this "genre". I didn't like the game that much myself because it's still way too broken and the concept of multiplayer actually seems more detrimental to the experience, but it isn't balanced to play alone, and not really exciting that way either..
Buuut hey, maybe Frictional was really on to something here with the pregnancy theme..
As for Soma, I mostly couldn't feel for the characters because it's my belief machines cannot ever be truly sentient, only act as if they were, which would of course happen if they were programmed to act upon memories of a real person and simulate being them. AI chatbots are pretty good these days but I don't think they are really sentient even if some are programmed to say so. It's just like how I believe if you would "transplant your consciousness" into a machine, you would actually die, and create a machine that acts as if it were you, but without the ability to change from that point on (like a read-only backup copy) which I think is ultimately what happens in the game. But as initially said, my understanding of this matter is very limited.
I actually think true sentience requires something that cannot be artificially created, like a soul, if you will. And for that I will be rightfully mocked :D
Buuut hey, maybe Frictional was really on to something here with the pregnancy theme..
As for Soma, I mostly couldn't feel for the characters because it's my belief machines cannot ever be truly sentient, only act as if they were, which would of course happen if they were programmed to act upon memories of a real person and simulate being them. AI chatbots are pretty good these days but I don't think they are really sentient even if some are programmed to say so. It's just like how I believe if you would "transplant your consciousness" into a machine, you would actually die, and create a machine that acts as if it were you, but without the ability to change from that point on (like a read-only backup copy) which I think is ultimately what happens in the game. But as initially said, my understanding of this matter is very limited.
I actually think true sentience requires something that cannot be artificially created, like a soul, if you will. And for that I will be rightfully mocked :D
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