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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
I like the way the first two Mafia games handle it. There is no happy ending for anybody, including Tommy and Vito(protagonists). Everybody involved eventually loses all the people they love and trust and ends up dead or in jail or forever on the run watching their back for hitmen.

The stories are really tragedies and a warning to not play the game of getting involved with the mafia as there is no way to really win, only to avoid losing as long as possible.
gpt
I never played those games, but sooner or later I will try them out.

&gt;there is no way to really win, only to avoid losing as long as possible.

I like this sentence, it's very summarizing of a complex concept. I always wondered what makes people choosing a life of crime knowing the stakes. I grew up in a poor crime-ridden area and many people I knew were idolizing the most dangerous local criminals. Some even followed in their footsteps.
When you have choices, it makes no sense taking the one with the most obvious bad outcome, yet some people do it. Baffling.