Although, I have to mention that the maker of the video should have distinguished the ability to think (reason) from the ability to feel (sentience). Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively.
@joluv: In the UK most of the people I come into connect are very sensitive to any issues regarding gender, ethnicity, religion etc. and that clip is pure gender stereotyping.
Well, technically its closer to 'default' than stereotype when it comes to gaming until extremely recently (with some exceptions). Anyway, it's not politically incorrect. Politically incorrect version IMHO would be calling the gamer dudebro 'Harvey Everyman', IE arguing that every single gamer is like that. Not all of them are, but a significant plurality certainly are.
However, actually discussing this is probably pointless. The video is funny.
@bengoshi, I dunno, I think the video game character demonstrated the ability to have subjective feelings about things, as demonstrated by her having opinions about her appearance (especially considering those opinions are presumably not hard-coded in, although we may get into some trouble if we set this as a requirement for sentience). Now, granted, there's a certain philosophical sense in which sentience becomes either tricky to measure or just plain nonexistent, but I'd at least say the video game character demonstrated as much sentience as the player did.
Of course, why that would result from raising intelligence is beyond me. But hey, it's a humor video, and it's funny.
Very funny stuff. As a powergamer who almost always plays female mages, I can't help but wonder how many sentient goddesses I've created.
I do object to one thing in that video: the notion that female characters with lesbian relationships in-game indicate the player is trying to enact lesbian fantasies. The fact that I played a female Dark Elf who married Brelyna Marion in Skyrim doesn't say anything about my personal life.
And just because my last playthrough of BG2 was a majority female party with a harem of nymphs following around my Charname, and just because I brought Pai'Na into the party for the explicitly stated purpose of serving as the party dominatrix because Snowy Tae was too big of a softy to keep the other party members in line, doesn't mean I have a bunch of lesbian fantasies. It is a coincidence.
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Although, I have to mention that the maker of the video should have distinguished the ability to think (reason) from the ability to feel (sentience). Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively.
So, it should have been:
//max intelligence;
//reason achieved
However, actually discussing this is probably pointless. The video is funny.
Of course, why that would result from raising intelligence is beyond me. But hey, it's a humor video, and it's funny.
...oh no!
I do object to one thing in that video: the notion that female characters with lesbian relationships in-game indicate the player is trying to enact lesbian fantasies. The fact that I played a female Dark Elf who married Brelyna Marion in Skyrim doesn't say anything about my personal life.
And just because my last playthrough of BG2 was a majority female party with a harem of nymphs following around my Charname, and just because I brought Pai'Na into the party for the explicitly stated purpose of serving as the party dominatrix because Snowy Tae was too big of a softy to keep the other party members in line, doesn't mean I have a bunch of lesbian fantasies. It is a coincidence.
Pure happenstance!