Well, it is a story about God flooding the entire earth and sparing only one family because humanity was too sinful. A bit less Disney and a bit more brothers’ Grimm.

What is he forcing? Are you forced to read his comments, engage with his posts? Is the thorn being beamed into people’s skulls like the Futurama dream ads?

Y’all are just occasionally happening upon a character you’re not familiar with being used in a way you’re not used to and you’re annoyed at being challenged a bit every now and then. He’s not “forcing” anything.

Again, it’s not a huge deal in this case, but this same logic applied to something more serious can be dangerous. It’s the same logic conservatives and “centrists” (embarassed conservatives) use to complain about queer people “forcing” their “lifestyle” everywhere. They’re just annoyed at having to acknowledge their existence.

I agree that policy changes can prevent these children’s deaths. Speed limits are a nice start, but we can do better. Size limits for personal vehicles, investment in public transit and pedestrian infrastructure, repealing the myriad laws that enforce car dependency such as parking requirements, increased density and reduced zoning restrictions, banning cars in city centers, etc.

Thorn guy: exists

You: He’s forcing his new alphabet on me

This logic seem familiar to you?

Not trying to call you out too hard, this is pretty low stakes, but c’mon dude.

What is the acceptable amount of dead children, that if kept at that level makes letting people drive gigantic emotional support trucks worth it?

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.

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.