Sal’s got this Marvel superheroes game where you need to solve puzzles and when you complete them, a bad guy goes to jail.
One of the games is a contest where they have a villian that is masked by fog and they slowly unmask him. In the multi-player version, the person that identifies the villian first wins. Solo mode, if you ID the guy before he’s completely revealed, you get the credit.
But, since this is a “shout it out loud” type of game, they rely on the honor code.
Catherine was telling me that the other day, they were playing and they didn’t ID the bad guy fast enough. But when the game prompted them with the yes/no question of “did you ID the villian?” Sal wanted to just say that they did.
His reasoning was that if they said “yes” a bad guy would goto jail.
Makes sense. Jack Bauer wouldn’t blink about misleading a program in order to put a bad dude away. He tortures them, pretends to kill close friends, threatens to harm Secret Service agent’s babies (but the agent was dirty). If you gotta bend a few rules to bust the bad guys, so be it. The bad guys aren’t playing by any rules.
But, Sal wasn’t playing this game with me or Jack Bauer.
So they said “no”.
The road just forked.