Brasas: Thanks Walter, I'm redeeming as we speak.
Thanks in particular for the well thought responses to my questions earlier. Truly appreciated.
To add on what you said (quoting above), a favorite book of mine has a dialogue about honor and reputation.
Honor is how you measure yourself, reputation is how others measure you. Usually tension happens when your reputation is lower than you know deserved. However the opposite when your reputation is elevated higher than you know deserved can be much worse.
It's actually interesting to consider how in our zeitgeist of subjectivity, honor is so hard to find.
You're welcome, enjoy the game!
Your definition of honor might be more positive than mine.
Imho, honor is an unwise romantic euphemism for fatalistic ego and is likely to get you killed by others, get you killed by yourself or others killed by you.
Same as religion, honor is an arbitrary man-made list of stuff you’re supposed to do and stuff you aren’t supposed to do, too often based on anything -but- reason and enforced with violence. A vague vessel that can and does get filled with all manner of tragic nonsense such as the notion that when a family’s daughter falls in love with someone her family doesn’t approve of, she needs to be killed to restore honor to the family.
Codes of honor might entail constructive things but they so often don’t that it’s arguably a better idea to generally do away with honor in favour of pragmatism.
TheBigLLS: Thanks a lot for the gift. Really appreciate it.
As for the topic... I don't believe I will change. But I can't be sure because I still not a parent (Have a little more than a year of freedom left!).
What kind of army service you did?
I did mine in as a "Warrior" (One of an israeli terms we use to specify 3 different types of services). In my service (Served on a mini-boat that watched over a border with 10 other guys), I had to dig a little into the "commanding" spectrom because you kinda have to if you are above-average soldier. Can totally relate to you though... Commanding other people is not something I like and probably never will.
Thanks again btw :D
You're welcome, I hope you like the game - it looks like a run-of-the-mill adventure but believe me, it isn't.
Regarding army service, my primary "character class" was that of IT/communications specialist which entailed setting up all the communication and encryption devices and radio/phones etc as well as radiated beam dishes and so on and once everything ran properly, it was all about trying to not fall asleep while beating your own high score at Windows Pinball and occasionally having to unplug and replug all the cables when an error in the communications occurred - which was the fastest way to find a error.
We weren't allowed to install any games on the army laptop (ran on WIN NT)that coordinates and monitors all the other equipment plus I didn't have a private laptop or a Game Boy or anything. PSP or NDS didn't exist. When other people were around who had their private laptops with them, we mostly played Half-Life multiplayer.
My secondary function was that of cook so I learned how to cook spaghetti for 20 people which is a semi-useful skill. When you cook for 20 people, you better do things right or else 20 people would try to kill you. Or maybe not, because if they'd mess with you they know you can totally fudge up their next meal. Cook is a powerful position! We didn't get around to our secondary functions too much though. I forgot practically everything about the communications stuff because it's different stuff than one uses in civilian life - so I can't betray any secrets even if I wanted to :) Either way, I'm retired from service now.