GameRager: First off, I get you are hurting from personal experience but that is no reason to slam a good thread just because of such.
No one is mocking anyone who died/was hurt or affected by such, and all are just talking about the tv series, which btw seems to be decently respectful of those who suffered or died as well.
Before getting upset or calling people/threads stupid or mallicious you should first see if anyone is acting in such a way first?
djoxyk: why it belongs to GAMING forums? this is biggest catastrophe in the history that involved radiation and happened (relatively) recently. this is not TV, this is real, you're talking about REAL thing that affected/ruined lives of millions of people in Eastern Europe and Baltics. you see only TV screen and actors (whom you discuss like it ever matters) and this is TV show for you while it is REAL for me and millions of other people. now I ask you again, why you have to discuss biggest catastrophe with most casualties on gaming forums where people supposed to have fun?
This is a general forum......everything non gaming related is allowed here and this is where such threads and posts are supposed to go. And as for why it's here(on gog)....well why not? People can avoid the topic if they want as it's clearly labelled.
Also MANY many bad things have happened in history.....should we never talk about them anywhere EVER because they might have negatively affected someone or a large group of people at some point? It's not like people are saying things like "russians or ukrainians suck& deserve what happened".....most here are just talking about the show and how good/bad it portrayed the events that happened.
DarthJDG: While I understand your pain, if merely seeing the word Chernobyl triggers this strong a reaction, you should find a way to address that issue. Venting here will probably not help.
djoxyk: there's no way to address this issue in efficient manner considering the way this event was dealt with (lies, denial and sacrificing people to death) and same state of responsibility from world leaders to their nations nowadays. Governments still don't mind getting own people killed or poisoned, they're still careless and aim for political/financial benefits instead of protecting own people. Nothing have changed since Chornobyl and no lessons learned. New Chornobyl can be just around the corner and that's definitely not something one can address by just saying "bah, whatever". One more such "incident" in Europe and you can write it off the world map in 50-100 years due to rapid decline in native population.
This is not just about the past, the story is still going because Chornobyl is just the first chapter for Europe. Russians try to hack into our power plants and disrupt its work (electricity and other infrastructure is also under attack). Since 2014 we've added additional military patrols to every dangerous object to prevent physical damage but one mistake from our cyber police or one traitor among military patrol and then you'll see part 2 of this TV show. It won't be pretty.
Maybe not, but one has to move on eventually for the good of themselves(mental health and etc) and society.
As for the second bit: Could you please not post anecdotes without evidence? Some of that is against board rules(accusing people/groups of things that are bad without proof) and a bit unwarranted imo.
