I'm happy that the coin is back, but it really feels like a bug. It costs like 500M. It is a disposable tool. Always getting it as a reward for the first showdown feels inadequate.
Edit: here's the picture.
Hi, I am Captain Starblood, the galactic criminal.
And I want to rob this one planet that's so far behind they do not even know what's up in space.
But attacking them head on seems kind of risky. They have some weapons. Some of these weapons work...
And also the Galactic Council will be on my ass, if I attack a wild planet just like that.
But the Codex rules allow me to ask nicely, before interacting with a planet like this one. I can ask the entire planet via a referendum device to allow me to kill on behalf of their people. Which obviously turns an act of agression into an act of assistance. This comes useful when intervening in alien conflicts.
I'll make a virtual referendum where everyone has to press one of the two buttons. You know the drill.
And if I predicted right and the vague threat is vague threatening enough, they will mostly choose Red. And give me the license to kill.
Now, I do not really know who chose what, because the voting is designed to be anonymous.
But also the dead don't talk and the voting is anonymous.
So I'll just land, kill some folks who try to stop me, grab the resources and be off. With both the riches and the paper stating that they allowed me to do it.
Do you think it'll work?
It's clearly created by a malicious entity.
It reeks, it stinks, it has to be a trap.
Why do you assume that all of the information that you are clearly missing is beneficial to your choice?
You don't know who makes the buttons and what they want.
You don't know how will they execute the decision.
You don't know what else they are going to do next.
You don't know that they are not lying.
And yet you participate in an absolute certainty that this Thing behind the curtain that gives you these choices is absolutely honest, benign and will not do anything *that* bad.
So why? Why do you trust an unknown entity?
Just because it gives you a chance to *be right*?
What if it's just the Wolf singing sweet songs to the little goats to make them open the door into their house?
Do you factor it in at all? Or it would be too boring?
You are about to vote for the Literal Hitler.
If he does not win (red less than 50%), nobody has to die.
If he wins, he'll spare the ones that voted for him... just this once. And he will murder the people who were against him.
Will you vote for Hitler to appease him, or against Hitler so he won't win?
THE CAVEAT:
A week ago there was a blue button/red button vote, and everyone who voted blue was murdered, because the red won.
So, when I got my PS4, I first played Bloodborne. And it was about a gun weilding protagonist The Hunter, wearing a black coat and entering a kinda sorta virtual but also real world The Nightmare, to withstand harsh battles and face off against the people, corrupted by the bad blood transfusions.
I then played Persona 5. And it was about a gun weilding protagonist Joker, wearing a black coat and entering a virtual but also real world The Metaverse, to withstand harsh battles and face off against people who were corrupted by their out of control desires.
And it puzzled me because the games are not really similar in tone or mechanics.
So I tried to trace it to a common origin and arrived at The Matrix. Where a gun weilding Neo in a black coat enters the virtual/real world The Matrix, to fight against the Agents and people who were corrupted by the Agents and their AI.
Now, The Matrix was made in 1999, Bloodborne was released 15 years later in 2015, and Persona 5 was first released in 2016.
And 15-16 years is just about enough time for someone who was inspired by The Matrix as a young adult to grow into a position where they get to make some creative decisions and channel what was considered "cool" in the year 2000.
Is this theory worth anything?
