Gourmet Gaming - Vol. 1 Ch. 34 - Hyemin

[immortalartisan]

*spits out electronic tea*
What? My circuits hurt

 

[SupremeCommander]

She must have looked/acted too much like an npc
Is the blacksmith guy not an npc too?
But why was he taking care of hyemin?

 

[gabie]

Thank you for translating !

 

[IrregularPerson]

I'm actually crying. if one day the tech to actually stimulate taste, smell excreta... it be amazing

 

[Dreadful]

Fuck this is wholesome, looks like the child may be able to start to eat in real life too if the therapy keeps working. >.<

 

[SowloktK]

The feels, damn.

 

[nevity]

@permisan I'm sure her body is getting the required supplements and all that through tubing. What's important is that she gets through this hardship psychologically so she can slowly recover in reality. The impact food has to a person's body that's
suffering from ed is directly linked to their mind. If they truly can't bear the thought of food, their body will reject it. Forcing it will even cause more damage.


also ps to whoever needs it: Obviously ed isn't easy to recover from, unlike what this manhwa shows. Recovery is never linear and that's ok. It takes time.

 

[sonyaism]

Omg. I am not crying. YOU"RE CRYING. T_T

 

[Juslin]

I feel like I should have got the hint when they said "guild" but I totally thought she was an NPC

 

[Huapollon]

On a side note, at this rate, I'm starting to think that the hospital is taking bribes from the MMORPG company... There's something weird going on that they recommend MMORPG to every one of their psych patient.

 

[SweatyBrie]

@Huapollon it’s the future, man. Repercussions are minimized, and risks are lower. The patient can be alone too.

But, on a serious note, it is a trope. You see these patterns: evil chaotic guilds and npc touched at heart.

 

[Ell_In_A_Box]

eugH my eYES

 

[Shdill]

OH DEAR. Everything's blurry all of the sudden 😭
It's such a simple but meaningful joy, to eat food.

 

[GraniteNinja]

OH NO THE ONION NINJAS ARE BACK

 

[imfromkissmangabutitsgone]

Onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon onyon

 

[FredCross047]

I came here to some delicious food chapters... Now my meal has more onions and taste saltier than usual...

 

[Degernase]

Don't call her hymen if you want me to take this seriously.

 

[Dreadful]

@Huapollon I think they only recommend this type of therapy to those who have severe problems with eating too little or a lot, like the Mc and this girl who is probably on chemo treatment. The main scenario I see going on here is that this MMORPG game was released along with the very advanced VR setup as a market sales pitch to get people interested in it, because of the sense of smell and taste imbedded into the game. And the hospital/s taken note that it could be used as a therapy of some sort, like how VRT is being used for some patients nowadays for the treatment and diagnosing conditions of psychological trauma.

 

[Huapollon]

@Dreadful That's all valid points, and the hospital in question is free to use advanced VR with smell and taste, but it wouldn't be in a commercially developed MMORPG unless something really sketchy is going on between the hospital and the MMORPG company. Like, how many VRT sessions actually make their patients play CoD or BF? It is always in a bare-skin environment with minimal confounding factors to avoid the risk of aggravating their trauma.

 

[Dreadful]

@Huapollon Yeah I could see that being sketchy af, but I think this "solution" to their trauma or therapy is just a byproduct of games advance beyond the point of our current reality. You see it in sci-fi/fantasy novels/mangas/movies of such exploring the idea to live in a world outside of your current one, these types of fantasy settings is further enforced by being able to have the sense you normally would irl, like the smell, texture and sense of life excluding the mediocrity and uncertainties that you might associate within the real world. This type of escapism is what attracts peoples attention, so including all the motions and emotions you would have when you go outside be felt inside a game is a driving force for companies and people to strive towards. Maybe thinking that the game in this manhwa is the result of that advancement being made, and not just some scheme for the game company to make a deal and entice the hospitals for profits. Maybe they do but this example can be made with Notch or Mojang when they first started developing Minecraft as a game and is now used in some schools to stimulate creativity, art and ingenuity.


p.s This topic is really interesting to talk about so thanks for replying! ^_^