/vr/ - Retro Games

Jesus, you guys talk about life and death as if it was the invention of the century in narrative themes. Like, this is probably the most prominent theme in literature since literally 3000+ years ago. And the same goes for not glorifying death btw

“But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’

I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.” - Homer, the Odyssey