This is really a pain in the -SS (WARNING:BIG F--KING SPOILER!)

[Maximilian]

DO NOT reveal the the spoiler until you are inside a lab and have to escape the lab.You will encounter the scene where you find your dad trapped in some kind of machine and you mom laying on the floor injured.Later you will have to choose who to get a DNA sample between your dad or your mom(And yes....,YOU HAVE TO SACRIFICE ONE OF THEM!).Seriously I've played The Stick of Truth ofc there are some intense moments but this is just the worst.Who would you prefer to sacrifice even though your dad and your mom had some quarrels before?

[Njord]

I killed my Dad he was closer to the machine, also he effed my Mom in that faithful night so he had it coming

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by Njord:

I killed my Dad he was closer to the machine, also he effed my Mom in that faithful night so he had it coming

Yeah lol

[OGPG]

Snowflakes are so sensitive. Do you need a Hug Tent?

[dlanor222]

I find this choice to be in extreme poor taste and pointless.

Make me feel the need to make the choice first, if you give me time to think about it then I am going to find all the flaws with this handfisted move. They failed hard by not forcing any sense of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ urgency in the scene >_> Honestly the game was doing fine untl that part.

PS: The hand prints in the glass and the injuries on 'mom' makes me think the mutant six grader took advantage of her.

[UnhappyCLOWN]

Dad told me to kill mom instead... Men don't hurt women in my book, so the ♥♥♥♥♥ had to die.

[razzartvisual]

Yeah I had to pause and reconsider going forward for a bit. That was really messed up.

Thankfully [massive end game spoilers please don't mouse over until you're finished] it doesn't matter since the timewarp undoes it.

I chose the dad since for some reason i thought it would be less gross than pulling off mom's arm.

[DarkHuD]

Your dad fraked your mom. #NeverForget

[Desticler]

I picked mother because, well... She was clearly dying. She even said that that if she moves a bit, she will run out of blood and die. While dad is perfectly normal, except for that tube that maybe there was a way to remove.
If I killed dad, I'd risk to lose both parents. If I killed mother, I'd be certain my dad is alive.

[cdarklock]

Originally posted by dlanor222:

I find this choice to be in extreme poor taste and pointless.

From a behavioural economics perspective, it's a very well-constructed dilemma. Gamers are constantly complaining that they want their choices to matter, but this one doesn't. It makes literally zero difference. And yet, it is still one of the hardest choices I've ever seen in a game.

At its core, its a variant of the trolley problem. The trolley problem is a common ethical dilemma: a trolley is about to hit some people on the tracks. You can throw a switch to put the trolley on a different track, but then it will kill a single person on the other track. How many people need to be on the first track before you will throw the switch?

This scene, however, alters things a bit. You have a switch that will kill a helplessly restrained but uninjured person with a laser, or you can fatally mutilate a heavily injured person with your bare hands.

But that's just the theoretical construct: the reality is that no matter what you do, it is "walk over there and press A." It's just a question of whether you press A on the left, or on the right. But you don't get to just sit and watch the trolley plow into someone, then claim your hands are clean. You HAVE to be the agent of destruction.

If this is just a game, your choice makes no difference at all. It has to be more than a game for your choice to matter, and even then your choice only matters to you. It's a test of how moral and ethical you are. There's no right answer; both answers are wrong. There's no better answer; both answers are EQUALLY wrong. And the consequences of your answer are absolutely identical, so you can't even use the principle of greatest benefit to make your decision.

That's what makes it so hard. It's the proverbial worst choice ever, between a Snickers bar and an identical Snickers bar. The only way you can justify it is by inventing a reason that has no basis in reality.

So the question is, given a choice that nothing can help you make, how quickly and easily can you just choose arbitrarily?

Human beings simply aren't designed for that. It literally never happens in nature.

[RobCv]

get over it - IT IS JUST A GAME!

[Deranged Duck]

I actually though at first that you could fart into the machine as a "dna match", but seriously it's such a brutal choice.

[kimo]

Too bad you could not kill both because that's what I really wanted to do.

[Jeba]

this scene was so dumb. since you dont know anything about your parents the choice should be obvious, you choose the mum because she is already injured and i actually thought theres no way the game is just gonna kill her for taking out her arm. so naturally i chose the dad expecting a funnier result. how wrong i was on both counts

never have i seen a more pointless "choose one because video game" and no amount of 2deep4u is going to make it any less pointless or dumb

[DarkCarnage]

i went with dad, he f-ed my mum and he also a stoner. also i have stoner towlie so i maxed out on pot heads :P

[Perish_Song]

She put stuff in the dinners, but he constantly had a problem with her and the new kid talking to people, plus he told her to feed it to him. It was easy, the dad had a lot going against him.