Coltan Scrivner

I think it was a game, actually.

When I was a kid, probably too young to be playing it, but I remember finding...

A copy of Resident Evil, the original old school Resident Evil 1 and playing that on PlayStation 1 when I was five or six or seven.

No, no, no.

Resident Evil is the zombie game.

It's like the apocalypse.

In this case, they were at like a mansion, zombie apocalypse, third person, but fixed camera so you can't turn around.

Back in the day, you couldn't just save a game whenever you wanted.

You had to like go to a safe room to save it.

That's like extra scary, right?

You had to find the safe room to be safe.

That was my gateway into it.

It was a terrifying game for me, but it was like, if I can find the safe room, I can plan and collect myself and continue on.

Probably around the first year or second year of my PhD.

And like any good, curious PhD student, I was just interested in everything.

Okay, I have to kind of specialize in something.

And so I got kind of interested in these paradoxes about human behavior.

So one of those is that humans are interested in violence, but they find it morally bad, right?

So in almost every case, we punish violence and push it away.

But there are some cases where it's not only okay, but it's actually entertaining, right?