DogMeat (DayZ)

Not at all, I didn't even notice your avatar because I haven't see the movie yet. Fiction not being welcome? I love fiction and of course it's relevant. To be more specific I'm referring to when people say things such as "This is definitively how people would act in a post apocalyptic world, read "Insert Post Apocalyptic Book or Movie Here". And yes, "The Road" is often filling that space. That said, I find it humorous not because I disagree. But because there is such ample historical/factual material to confirm this that it shouldn't even be necessary to cull from fiction. Many books and movies cover these scenarios in that fashion correctly assuming this to be a very plausible way people would handle such events. Here's an example from this forum that brought this to mind: It's much worse in places like reddit...Hope this clears things up as the last thing in my mind was attacking you and the chosen example was purely coincidence.

The context in which he brought this up was expanding on the idea first brought by an old french economist that (typically) "where goods cross frontiers, armies do not". The premise being that trade is by far one of the best ways of maintaining peace among groups. You're less likely to kill someone who provides you something of value. This wouldn't be applicable in DayZ as the players don't really create things or have anything to trade that requires specific skills as everything grows in the vine so to speak. Sophisticated trade is not much of a possibility in DayZ. What gets me is when people use works of fiction like "The Road" as the "in real life" examples. Always get a laugh out of those.

Fixed it bro

This whole shoot on sight issue reminded me of a quote from Jared Diamond (the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel) in a Michael Shermer book The Mind of the Market: Seems pretty spot on, especially considering how playing DayZ is essentially a hunter gatherer experience.