![]() There is no reason to expect diminished intelligence, because there are high returns to intelligence in HG cultures, especially those in more difficult conditions. They would either perish or roughly replicate past human hunter gatherer cultures. Let’s also imagine that this group is on an island with little way to get out of this forest.Įvolution here may lead to less intelligence. In fact it would be evolutionarily advantageous to invest less energy in the brain, as even 0.5 units of energy towards the brain would be enough to find these resources just as well, whereas more energy directed to the muscles instead would also improve fitness. It costs 1 (big) unit of energy to maintain the human intellect, but the diet in this forest is only barely providing enough to stay alive. None of the original group knew how to make fire the old way and so the knowledge was just forgotten when they died.īut there’s an evolutionary dilemma. This group takes to eating fruit and certain plants that allows them to survive just well enough. Say a horrific disease or some other disaster kills 99.9% of humans, and leaves one group alive in the rainforest. People have lost the knowledge about fire before. It isn't an easy thing to do but it is valuable. If we all choose to make this a duty we will contribute to a great filter that will remove a lot of hostility in the world and increase communication and as such foster understanding. Suck it up, if you are rubbed the wrong way by what someone says use that as an opportunity to develop a thicker skin, be generous with your understanding and eat the pain caused by the imperfections of communication. We do a disservice to knowledge if we deliberately sidestep the intended meaning in order to nitpick some triviality that has no meaningful impact on the intended message. Can we please agree to give everyone the benefit of the doubt and look to understand before getting indignant and calling others out for not being understanding? It is simply exhausting having to tip toe around perceptions of intent and assumptions of malice when 99% of the time people just want to share a message and of that 99% 99% of people will do so clumsily. I then tried to be diplomatic by not directly calling out /u/allthejokesareblue on their seeming misunderstanding and relayed it back to OP being the one lacking said knowledge, which OP very much was, so as not to directly call out someone who was trying to do something kind but not doing a great job at it.Ĭan we try to be grownups and come to terms that words, especially on a global platform peopled with nearly every cultural group on the plant, are imperfect. Don't you think I am entitled to be a bit harsher with someone attempting to answer a question when perhaps they themselves are not clear on the topic. If people answering OP are also ignorant of the subject and giving false or at least misleading information it won't help OP learn or understand what they are curious about. I wanted to do my best to ensure that this incorrect analysis didn't prevail. An ending with meaning.But I wasn't answering OP when I said that, I was commenting on another answer by /u/allthejokesareblue who seemed to lean in to the "evolution has a direction" with his "You can't go back comment". An ending that will give closure to some and infuriate others. That is what this ending is: the final revelation to the players of the ORIGINAL Secret of Monkey Island. An ending that we finally have an explanation for: the ending of Monkey Island 2 was actually Guybrush's children reliving one of Guybrush's adventures. An ending that is still being discussed and debated today. An ending that was discussed and debated for years. ![]() Instead, we got an ending that WAS meaningful. We never find out what Big Whoop is, and if we found out, it might not hold any meaning for us as players. Think about the ending of Monkey Island 2. It's very possible that the "true" secret is something like that for Guybrush. Something that leads to an understanding. People want the Secret to be something meaningful. ![]() But what the secret is to the characters in the game isn't what ultimately matters, I think. Within the narrative of the game itself, it makes no sense and is probably just something silly made up as part of the framing story. Maybe they changed their minds about including it. It wasn't included there for some reason. I mean that the theme park is what the Secret was intended to be in the original game.
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