Goonhub
12-21-2020, 03:45 PM
There's a clash in tone. Violence and gore in Space Station 13 have always had a cartoonish quality to them, something I think we should preserve.
Incremental lobotomy (and cannibalism) is uncharacteristically dark and veers too far into body horror territory for my liking. Brain removal in its current state serves as the vital intermediary step in borging/monkey-cloning players in addition to being an efficient killing method. Compare this to the proposed brain scooping, which is inherently nefarious and is essentially a mechanic used to inflict torture on other players.
This is a concern that has come up previously with the strychnine chem; Players injected with the poison would receive messages that were overly descriptive and gratuitous to the point of making people uncomfortable.
Incremental lobotomy (and cannibalism) is uncharacteristically dark and veers too far into body horror territory for my liking. Brain removal in its current state serves as the vital intermediary step in borging/monkey-cloning players in addition to being an efficient killing method. Compare this to the proposed brain scooping, which is inherently nefarious and is essentially a mechanic used to inflict torture on other players.
This is a concern that has come up previously with the strychnine chem; Players injected with the poison would receive messages that were overly descriptive and gratuitous to the point of making people uncomfortable.