The main character starts the game literally giving himself a traumatic brain injury by drowning himself in alcohol. It’s not really the kind of RPG where you can play a self-insert, the player character is an actual character with his own backstory. Not being able to make good choices because of the player character’s personal trauma and limitations is part of the story that the game is telling.

I’ve never really enjoyed his style of humor, but his dramatic writing is great. The Orville is at its best in its more serious moments and I usually feel like I have to tolerate the comedic elements to get to the good parts.

I haven’t heard of anyone who isn’t famous suffering from long covid to this extreme.

Gee, I wonder why you might be more likely to hear about a famous person with a rare condition than a random stranger with a rare condition. It’s a real enigma!

yeah, yeah, genocide is terrible and all but won’t someone please think of the minor property damage! This doesn’t help your cause.

signed, someone who can barely be bothered to give a shit about the cause.

Is this you?

But bad systems create the incentives. Chalking it up to “bad people doing bad things” is a shallow analysis that does nothing to address the underlying problem. If you replaced all the “bad people” with “good people” you would see the same problems re-emerge due to the perverse incentives created by the profit motive.