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In fact, probably the most famous fictional example of a character with something close to Killjoy in recent fiction would be the villain of one of the more recent Bond movies (this century, at least). Who explicitly could not feel pleasure or pain, but who was motivated to carry out what seemed very much like retributive acts nevertheless.
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03-09-2019, 12:03 PM | #14 | |
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I wonder how many people have played enough THS that they've got thoroughly used to the setting and wanted to experiment with really alien AIs? I suspect the number may be small.
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Victor Zokas, aka Renard, from The World Is Not Enough could not feel pain, but I don't see anything about inability to feel pleasure. He would have High Pain Threshold and Numb in GURPS terms.
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He made a pretty huge deal about his inability to feel, to experience the act of love or even remembering the sensation of pleasure. In essence, he was prepared to give his life to take vengeance on behalf of another, because his life was not worth living without the ability to feel alive.
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Yes. Rather shocking. All these Bond movies start to blur together in my mind.
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I'd like to mention anhedonia, a psychiatric symptom. Anhedonia produces reduced wanting as well as reduced enjoyment, reduced learning, flat affect, reduced range of affect, emotional numbing, social withdrawal, cessation of activities usually pleaasureable, psychomotor retardation, and inactivity.
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