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thorne1435 · 1 year ago

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The thought occurred to me yesterday that video game gore always feel gratuitous, and never feels authentic.

I've seen pictures of shark attacks, I've seen roadkill picked apart and split open by scavengers (and realistically more cars), I've seen halves of creatures presented on my door step by my evilest cat, as well as sometimes just their internal organs (not sure what happened there), I've seen pictures of stab wounds, I've gotten a stab wound myself at one point, and I gotta say...

real gore...isn't as wet?

I mean, it can be. But most of what I've seen is just a gut-wrenching lack of flesh in an area and then a ton of, like, ominous red staining? Of course when something is freshly bleeding it's different. But like, blood effects in media are just so over the top. It's fucking insane how bloody people seem to think things are. And the way they just think it stays? Bloody? Forever?? Like, a pool of blood has an expiration date, y'know, it doesn't just stay that way. In fact, blood doesn't even stay red! The longer it's on a surface the browner it gets. This is the case for several bodily fluids, and if you've ever bled on a t-shirt you would know this!

I don't know what I want from video games. I don't even know if I'm fully correct. Just feels like media gore isn't real enough to shock me.

#cw: gore #this thought was brought about by a scene in RDR2's epilogue where you find a man's head split apart gruesomely presumably by a bear.#and i tried really hard to focus on that image and tried to picture what it would feel like to see it in real life and how i would feel...#but i couldn't! it looked campy to me. too foreign from my real life experience to be properly visualized.#and that made me realize that i cant empathize with the characters in that moment because seeing that gore doesnt trigger a response in me.#i cannot process the fragility of the human form when i see it on display in the most ethical and safe way possible #and like...do i *need* to process that?#no. that would probably be horrible for my anxiety.#but still...i can't help but feel like they could've done better y'know?

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