2010-07-16, 13:11 | Link #2141 |
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Perhaps, but no disease has a 100% mortality rate. Even something like Ebola can be survived with sufficient care and luck. Thus, what about the people who don't even get infected, but who happen to be in the quarantine area?
When it was around, smallpox was commonly not fatal. You're right that it'd likely be worse now, since we lack the immunity, but it still wouldn't kill 100% of cases. |
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you're right, but those few people are very few and spread out, the glitch in the statistic if you will.
As such, a humane way to alleviate their pain would be to jack them up on morpha or kill them. That said, practical choices are better than idealogical ones built on falacies.
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2010-07-16, 13:23 | Link #2143 |
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Actually, the more lethal version of smallpox only had a mortality rate of 30% or so. And that was (presumably) without modern medicine.
But, really, your idea of a 'practical' choice seems to be "kill everyone who might be a danger", which in the Nasuverse at least is shown time and time again to be a very bad path for a human to follow, regardless of logic (see: Kiritsugu, Archer, MoS Shirou). Anyway, this is a pointless argument, because what matters, really, is how Shirou would act in that scenario, and to me he's not remotely OOC. He wants to save everyone. And, before you say "but that's idealistic bullshit", Shirou is an idealist. In Fate he gets away with it, mostly, but in HF he sees what it truly means. |
2010-07-16, 13:53 | Link #2145 |
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What dynamic?
HF Shirou is merely a logical progression from Shirou in the other two routes. The three routes work well as individual routes, but they also tell as story when put together. The story of Shirou's ideal and how it is fatally flawed. |
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2010-07-16, 15:48 | Link #2148 |
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I'm pretty sure she survived, actually, in all three routes (she only gets raped in UBW, although she gets attacked in Fate). And, it's kind of implied that Rider was the one doing the raping (and Rider has to drain her of energy). After all, Shinji can't let her see him unless he then kills her, and I think Shinji wanted to humilate her but leave her alive.
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Well, I've never read through the Epic of Gilgamesh, but I'm pretty sure there was no mention of a Reality-breaking Drill Sword either... |
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2010-07-16, 17:01 | Link #2152 |
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Actually, and I'm not 100% sure on this, but I believe the official explanation for any of Gil's assorted 'oddities'... the armor, the unearthly sword, the weird coloration... is that Ancient Uruk was visited by aliens, and had alien technology.
No, seriously. EDIT: And just for the record? My absolute favorite of his appearances is that ridiculous furred pimpcoat he wore in Fate. I figure, if you're gonna make a character a giant ham, you might as well go all-out, right? |
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And didn't Rider dream rape Shirou in the beginning? In his sex dream with Rin in HF, she had Rider's eyes at the end.
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And yeah, Rider totally dream-raped Shirou. |
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I've only played through Fate and UBW, but yes, Servants can use sex to get energy. Saber did it during the Fate route with Shirou, and in UBW Caster had sex with Kuzuki to regain the energy she had lost and make him her Master.
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2010-07-17, 09:53 | Link #2159 |
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It's definitely the easiest way as far as I know, or at least, it was in Fate since they had no other way of saving Saber. But I think overall it's the easiest way in general to get mana from the Master, since it takes less time and care, assuming that they aren't already getting mana from the connection they share with their Master.
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However, sex is certainly not the only way to get prana. Other than using spells (like Caster does) to draw prana from people in the town or using Rider's boundary field to melt people, a servant can also gain prana by eating people's souls (or, seemingly, also by sucking blood, judging by what Rider does to the people she finds). It's implied that that's what Rider does under Shinji's control (and, indeed, that's probably what she did to Ayako, although Ayako survived). However, when she's under Sakura's control, eating people isn't an option (unless she does it secretly, and even then if Sakura found out she'd be very angry), so in order to reduce Sakura's burden she has sex with Shirou. |
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