Quote Originally Posted by LolitaBansheeMeru View Post
Yes I would because it's a game and they should get over themselves on digital games. Also, many things smoked in pipes have no smell and no issues what so ever...
Honestly, if I knew someone was scared of a spider I would put a spider on them, same goes with snake so they get over that pathetic fear. Next Again, its a game... its not like your nose is in the game. I mean, that's basically like a vegan complaining about in game food being meat lol

This is why games today suck and people make horrible movies/tv shows this days because everyone doesn't know the difference in fantasy and reality obviousely. Real life Morality real life issues with stuff shouldn't prevent any shows ever made. So many snowflakes in this world use well I hate this because real life, or so many bad things from X in real life I dont want it in the game. Its a fantasy ....
Whoa, dude! I can agree with your post except for that because that is a HUGE dick move. Phobias are legitimate psychiatric conditions people can’t help, but it’s done of your darn business to try “curing” them. This ain’t how exposure therapy works anyway and I am frankly dismayed by your callous attitude and hope no one with a phobia or any sort of trauma goes near you. Not like a fear of snakes or spiders is “pathetic” anyway considering there are various venomous species that can kill you (and you can still get hurt by harmless species anyway if you’re unlucky); such phobias are old primal survival mechanisms that kept our ancestors alive before the modern era. And if whoever has such phobias isn’t going to work with snakes and spiders, there’s no need to “cure” them unless they want to get over it. And I’m speaking as a big spider and snake lover.

But otherwise, yes, I agree many people seem incapable of separating fantasy from reality and are convinced that somehow a stupid video game will make people actually do things. And yet here’s my generation who grew up with Pokemon, but afaik, at least 99.9% of us are are pretty anti-dogfighting (which was what a lot of people think Pokemon involves, but I’m not going to explain established lore and mechanics here).

No one’s going to actually breathe in the smoke in-game, especially not if they re-use the existing pipe animations. Pipes have also been fantasy staples anyway, but you don’t see most fantasy fans smoking because some random protag smoked.