“Only with careful performance will the victim yield maximum effect.”
The most ghoulish of Amnesia’s many ghoulish ideas is “vitae”.
But whatisvitae, exactly?
Vitae is a psychosomatic substance extracted from the bodies of tortured beings, and especially, human beings.
“Only with careful performance will the victim yield maximum effect.”
“Careful performance” may involve appeals to the imagination.
Simply presenting the instruments of torture can be as effective as using them.
Also, apply the pain in doses, if possible with breaks to let the body settle."
“There’s always the boring explanation about where it started out.
It’s interesting just how prominent a certain amount of suffering is to the human experiment.”
“The way most animals kill other animals is not kind,” Grip goes on.
Fatally wounding is okay, as long as I don’t lose track of it.
It takes two hours to die - I can wait, that’s no problem.
So you’re optimising.
And for humans that comes in at the society level, with factories and so on.
Is this deliberate self-commentary, I ask Grip?
“It is quite interesting how close torture and making good horror ‘entertainment’ are.
It’s especially unpleasant to reflect that these calculated reprieves might include each game’s opportunities for empathy.
Every videogame can be defined as a data-harvesting unit.
