Video games with disturbing implications you might not have noticed

[CrazyCracka420]

http://www.cracked.com/article_20673_5-video-games-with-disturbing-implications-you-didnt-notice.html

The first one on the list is great.  Talking TeS IV: Oblivion and the tournament structure

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To get to Grand champion you have to kill 22 people.  But everyone of those people had to have killed at least the same amount of people as you when you fight them.

In the arena, the more you win (i.e., kill), the higher you rise in rank. The game sets it up so that opponents of equal rank compete, so when you start out as a "pit dog," you can only fight other pit dogs. After you've killed three dogs, you're promoted to brawler and must kill three fellow brawlers to rise another rank. Sounds simple, right? Well, each of your opponents has three kills of his own; if he didn't, he wouldn't be a brawler. Between you four, there have been 15 deaths in all. Perhaps you see where this is going.

The next rank is bloodletter, and each of your three opponents traveled his own 15-death path to reach that rank. We're now up to 63 total deaths. This goes on and on, with the death toll rising higher and higher, until you reach the championship rank, when all of your opponents are there due to a river of blood left in their wake -- by this point, you and your opponents have contributed to an astounding 16,383 deaths. The grand champion, whom you challenge and kill next, is responsible for at least that many deaths himself, since he fought to become grand champion the same way you did.


These numbers, however, assume that each of your opponents has only the minimum number of kills necessary for the title. In practice, many will have more; a first-time pit dog could fight a pit dog who already has two kills, for instance. So, if we assume your opponents always have the same kill count as you, using the humble formula of 2^n - 1 to determine the total number of deaths after each match, we find that your 22-match rise to grand champion results in ...

... 4,194,303 deaths.

[Kafein]

The arena thing just points out how unrealistic fighting to the death for 50 gold is, because the huge majority of those victims are pit dogs afterall.

Behold, in TES games I always thought there were more guards than anything else, but it may in fact be tournament losers.

[Zaalback]

... 4,194,303 deaths.

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[Swaggart]

The only disturbing implication is that someone actually wasted the time to do the math.

[Grumpy_Nic]

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[Taser]

So no wonder the empire didn't have enough people to fight off the dominion. They killed them all in the arena.

Its the small details that get you.