Would You Rather #13
by DaebakGrits
In dramaland, leading ladies often find themselves torn between the love of two equally attractive men — a choice none of us would want to make! But what if you did have to pick between the frustrating lawyer and the adorkable police officer? In this weekly feature, we ask you to make the difficult decisions — and we aren’t limiting our options to dreamy oppas.
Vote via the poll and feel free to use the comments to explain exactly how you were able to choose! So, Beanies:
WOULD YOU RATHER #12: RESULTS
Well, well, well. After several weeks with landslide wins, it was fun to see the results come out a bit closer. Even so, there was still a clear winner: the underground bunker in Taxi Driver. So what features did the underground bunker have that tipped the scale in its favor? Well, first and foremost, if it comes occupied, apparently people wanted Lee Je-hoon — and his motley crew — as a “roommate” (though @elinor put up a good defense for Jung Il-woo). More Beanies were also pretty keen on all the fun gagets found in the bunker, and @mysterious is even courageous enough to join the Taxi Driver vigilante team! Plus, as @diana-hansen pointed out, you will never have trouble finding a taxi, which will make commuting to work a breeze.
On the other hand, if your lair connects directly to your office, like in Good Job, does hailing a taxi really matter? Certainly not to the many Beanies who were quick to point out the convenience of having your hideout connect to both work and a bakery, which was a massive selling point on its own for @luckywargoddess. The Good Job lair also came with a lot of swanky amenities (a gym, a comfy sectional sofa, high ceilings, showers, etc.) that, according to @amfalulawatching, make it “a great place to have a party.” I guess it’s easy to tell which secret hideout was built by the ridiculously rich (and handsome) CEO.
So if the Good Job lair has all the luxuries, why did the Taxi Driver bunker come out on top? Hmmm… Well, I honestly think @lordcobol was on to something when he pointed out that the Taxi Driver bunker has better music. It is one of my top OSTs of all time, and if your underground hidey hole is going to have theme music, you can’t do much better than the Taxi Driver soundtrack.
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1 welh
April 12, 2023 at 6:16 AM
I voted for manwha because living in a comic world gives more open-ended possibilities than the finite structure of computer coded game play.
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2 Kurama
April 12, 2023 at 6:36 AM
I mean just how you write it change a lot : live or be trapped.
I don't want to be dead and the VR game is clearly not for me.
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3 Gikata
April 12, 2023 at 6:53 AM
Being trapped in a game means that I wasn't there initially and thus, in theory, can get out someday, while manhwa characters have very little chances of ever leaving the world they were born into. Plus in a game player characters have some agency, even if it's limited by storyline, stats and other mechanics, while in manhwa they are fully controlled by plot. So despite my endless love for books/comics and VERY complicated relationship with games, my vote is for the latter. It'll probably suck anyway, but at least I won't be 100% powerless marionette.
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Lord Cobol (Kdramas, like water, flow downhill)
April 12, 2023 at 10:08 AM
It might be fun to be the character in a computer game who answers questions and gives hints about where the treasure is -- as long as you have enough independence to not necessarily answer correctly.
Also, in a modern game the eye candy might be more realistic.
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Gikata
April 12, 2023 at 11:22 AM
Well, I didn't count NPCs at all because they are as agency-lacking as manhwa characters. Plus I don't find your suggestion very fun, my interest in others' business is THAT low to get any real pleasure from messing with people)))
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4 amfalulawatching
April 12, 2023 at 6:54 AM
Well, I say we combine the Good Job lair amenities with the music from the Bunker in Taxi Driver to create a fabulous party space. We will need that nice space to go after finding our perfect date while browsing the shelves for the perfect manwha. Print is always reliable even as it gets dogged eared and yellowed while VR seems so ephemeral. This assumes, of course, that the manwha doesn't only exist in digital form. I'd rather a real party over a digital party. My vote goes to the manwah.
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5 bbstl 🧹
April 12, 2023 at 7:19 AM
If VR game means being with Hyun Bin, it deserves several extra thoughts … but manhwa sounds safer for risk-averse me.
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6 Miky
April 12, 2023 at 10:09 AM
I'll take the VR game,tehre is a chance i win the game sooner than later and get out while in the manhwa set up i'm controlled by the story and writer...
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7 Lord Cobol (Kdramas, like water, flow downhill)
April 12, 2023 at 10:13 AM
Would you rather...
1: Have to binge Kokdo 3 times without fast-forward?
2: Drink the fish eggs from Our Blooming Youth?
3: Both, but only if you can choose which to do first?
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Britney
April 12, 2023 at 11:19 AM
Binge the entire series 3 times or certain episodes?
Well, I could still probably choose kokdu because I could tune out at some point and it would just be noise in the background.
I imagine more people would choose the fish eggs though haha
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Gikata
April 12, 2023 at 11:25 AM
I'd prefer to force-feed fish eggs to Kkokdu's writer, but that script felt like they already got a taste so...
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redfox
April 13, 2023 at 7:28 AM
fish eggs unless I have to pay for them bc beluga is 22 000 euros a kg
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8 lillamy
April 12, 2023 at 11:06 AM
I'd love to be a side character in a manhwa. Oh, the fun to be had on the sidelines. I suppose I wouldn't know that I was a character in a manhwa as most characters don't, but I guess I'd have my fair share of hot guys anyway you see it.
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9 Britney
April 12, 2023 at 11:13 AM
I don't know anything about the vr game world and I don't even know what show this choice is referencing. I just imagine violence & destruction (because I think that's what happens in the Free Guy movie. Don't know cause I haven't seen that either)
I chose manhwa because it seems simple enough. You play your part when the moment calls for it and then afterwards, you have time and choices for yourself without having to worry about money or survival. The downside is when your role is to be mistreated over & over again. That would be frustrating to say the least but then there's a chance of being in different genres & settings once a given story wraps up.
And I'm already a background character in my own life so...
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Isa is always time travelling
April 12, 2023 at 11:24 AM
The drama about VR is Memories of Alhambra (2018), starred by Hyun Bin and Park Shin Hye.
A really entertaining show, in spite of the ending and some plot holes.
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10 💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
April 12, 2023 at 12:49 PM
Aiyooo, looks like I'll be saving a lot of you from Jeffrey... as I stay safely over here picking neither. 😂😂😂
But also, it just says "trapped in" and "live in"... It doesn't imply for either that that's the only world or final option.
To live in a manhwa is not necessarily the same as being fundamentally a manhwa character...
And anyway, then it depends: whether the Creator of either is Benevolent, whether either world is a Clockwork Universe or not...
or whether the game you're trapped in literally becomes sentient and tries to murder you for no reason...
Also it was technically an AR game, not a VR game, in MOA... 🤭😂
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Britney
April 12, 2023 at 2:18 PM
You're back!
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💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
April 12, 2023 at 2:24 PM
Helloooo~ yes, I is ☺️
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11 Jezz
April 12, 2023 at 4:38 PM
I voted for manhwa because there were a lot of adaptations within South Korea or any remakes from other countries whether for film or for TV series. Manhwa deserved to be one of the most recognized Korean pop culture items.
So, why I'm not trapped in VR game when I don't vote to be trapping in VR game? Because there's "game over" after I attempted to save lives but unfortunately no more lives for me. Game over. Period.
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12 lapislazulii
April 12, 2023 at 5:21 PM
Basing this on the webtoons I've read, I think I'll take living in a manwha over a video game, purely because the latter is going to likely be full of high-octane action, horror and what not and if I'm entering the world as me I'd stand no chance of making it past level one. At least in a manwha everyone is comic book gorgeous and I won't have to make any choices per say, if the writer is kind enough and I'm lucky enough to be The Main Lead then my life will be basically set right 😂
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13 redfox
April 13, 2023 at 7:25 AM
honestly, I have yet to see a VR that is realistic enough. a cut-out cartoon can be more plausible than most iof them.
depends which manhwa. im too old for school.
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14 Anne18
April 13, 2023 at 7:46 AM
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15 darwi
April 14, 2023 at 12:28 AM
I love that music was an choice argument this time also.
Here there's music in the VR game but not in the manhwa, however I'm not sure I would like to be pixelated.
And fundamentally I am a paper creature. Reading is my life. So this week's dilemna is not a question: manhwa all the way.
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16 FormAnOrderlyQueue
April 14, 2023 at 6:23 AM
No thanks to ending up as a pile of sand: manhwa for me!
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