I mean, speak for yourself, but I spent most of my time in Daggerfall (my first TES game) just screwing around with the game mechanics and learning all sorts of fun and interesting ways to make use of the tools they gave you. And while most of the world was iterative, there were actually cool secrets you could find randomly by exploring, like a witch's coven which gathers on one specific day of the year, or such things. Probably the biggest thing that I love about the games is when you figure out a particularly good style and become a walking god, because the devs didn't try to stamp out that sort of emergent gameplay back then.
It's totally fine if it's not your thing, but these games are widely loved for a reason.
With 100 people you could probably just dogpile the thing and render it immobile, if nothing else. You're imagining this animal like some high level video game monster, but that's not anything like how the real world actually works.
Arena was an interesting idea ... for about 1 hour.
It was bloody revolutionary for it's time. Perhaps the modern scene makes people forget, but the idea of a large open world in games used to be a pretty rare thing. The whole reason TES is so popular is because they aggressively pushed the envelope for the scale of their worlds, sacrificing polish in favour of quantity. Unlike other games where the only thing to do is chase the victory screen, TES sought to simply provide players with a world to do whatever they wanted in (oh and there's a main quest also, but only if you want).
Your post reads heavily like video game logic tbh. There's actually been a case where one single man killed a grizzly bare handed by shoving his arm down the grizzly's throat and grabbing the tongue, then holding on til it choked to death. Animals are not calm and collected machines making optimal decisions when threatened. Just need one guy to gouge the gorilla's eyes and it gets radically easier. In the real world, unlike in video games, there is no good defence against violence other than simply not getting involved with it yourself.
People who rail against anonymity, like those who rail against porn, are missing the bigger picture. Sure, those things do indeed correlate strongly with visible problems right now, but they're both being enormously exacerbated by the simple fact that society has been almost entirely upturned by the radical demands modernism is expecting. We have altered how just about every person's daily life unfolds, and when things start to go wrong shallow thinkers look for the first answer they can find which places the entire blame and responsibility on someone else.
And seriously, there's no way the CIA is going to abandon the greatest honey pot that has ever been built just to satisfy some simpleton who thinks the point of life is to get along. /s
But seriously, that's the real problem. The Internet was built by those 4%
Yea, it really feels like OP doesn't know a lot about TES if he finds this immersion breaking. The world actually has quite a bit of history which explains clearly the how and the why for each of the races being there. This is really a text book study on how to do it properly.
The problem is that empires are really bad if they do become corrupt. All of the interwoven systems designed to maintain the people's daily lives become weapons in the hands of those who seek to abuse them for profit.
Good assessment of how we got to here, but as for where this goes now...
It's going to be biblical.
Seriously though. Not just fist pumping and flag waving, but rather the whole world will change right here and now. There is a very clear reason why this gospel of absolute equality has arisen, and how the very same ideology has played out in the past is well known. What's new this time, however, is that mass travel/communication have the potential to significantly upend the established script where society is supposed to explode with anger.
There's no point in arguing with disingenuous idiots like you who think money is the only reason anyone should ever disagree with something. I only replied in the first place to point that fact out to others who didn't read your wall of text.
I think it's going to be a really fascinating field of study, just as soon as we gain some humility for how little we actually know, and we can approach the problems without insisting that we definitely already know how it all works, as modern science does.
wtf is in their genes
Supposedly soy promotes estrogen, so I'd suggest that a high soy diet makes Asian men small and effeminate, while their women are exceptionally feminine. Comparatively the frozen north with staples like red meat and dairy, produce real life giants of men, while also creating women like Helga, who can bench press a cow while milking it.
Look, I care as much as the next person about the victimization of children facilitated by our increasingly automated society, but that doesn't mean I'm completely sold yet on training AI kill bots to hunt down predators. Unless we can somehow ensure that the bots won't mistakenly harm any children themselves in the execution of their directive, the tech just isn't there yet.
For whatever it's worth saying it online, I've actually spent a solid half of my life training in some form of the martial arts, culminating in MMA. My 'imagination' is built upon actually knowing the dynamics of hand to hand combat extremely well. This question is so wildly imbalanced in favour of the 100, it's basically serving as an IQ test. That gorilla wouldn't stand a ghost of a chance, and it's not at all debatable in any realistic way. You're trying to math things out here when you don't even know what it's like to be in a fight.