Is Religion a Flawed Play Style for Humans? (feat. TierZoo)

Is religion an advantageous play style spec'd into with evolution points? Is it a bug in the game? Could it be both?
Here, we discuss the questions surrounding the evolution of religion: How did religion evolve? Did religion evolve? Are animals religious? With some help from TierZoo, as well as academics like Jonathan Haidt, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, I dive into competing hypotheses about the evolution of human religion. Primarily, I focus on Emile Durkheim's Adaptationism championed by Haidt, as well as Richard Dawkin's Memetics upheld by Dennett and Susan Blackmore. Where did religion come from? Hopefully this video will get you closer to the answer.

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[GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic]

Thanks for the support, everyone! The sponsorship money is going right back into the channel so more of my videos can look and sound more like this one (or better)

[parleymcrae]

"Religion is both a bug, and a feature."
So Bethesda made it then.

[daboz]

Me: [crying]
Tier Zoo: Look at that human player, using social abilities.

[helplesscrimson]

Having max intelligence actually gives you the existential crisis debuff

[KarmasAB]

"Are these players trying to revive fallen allies?"

Elephant necromancer class?

[johann-sebastianflachland]

Okay but summing up the belief in the afterlife as “hidden post-game content” is pure genius XD

[leonproske]

The crossover none of us expected, but all of us appreciate

[krystencabbage]

I really love TierZoo’s strategy of talking about life like a game, it helps me not take shit so seriously because it makes me think of it casually, the way I think about games

[itzolie]

I was under the impression that burying the dead wasn’t a religion/faith skill but a stealth/defense skill instead. A dead body will create a beacon effect that attracts other players to the area. Specifically high tier mammal builds and bacteria builds that can devastate a whole party of human players.

[NoDerpingAllowed]

I showed this to my guildmate who's a hamster main, and he didn't really care for either playstyle. He mostly just grinds xp raiding his server's hamster wheel.

[arxteliwinx]

i heard that the dev’s son was given access to admin commands and had the ability to respawn within 3 days

[Ice-psyo]

A Ghost is just a dude in spectator mode
A Zombie is just someone who watched an ad for an extra life
A Monster is just someone who got banned for hacking

[Liboo]

“are they developing an intelligence level that’s high enough to allow then to commune with the devs?”

Poetry

[mythicdawnist]

"Commune with the devs" is my favorite new term for prayer

[glentaylor]

"Okay, I'm dressed to head to the weekly guild meeting."
"Um... don't you mean to go to church?"
"Duh, that's what I said..."

[ireneqq]

I think this play style is kind of a cheatcode to pass more easilly the "define morals" and "find meaning" puzzle games that some non-equiped players sometimes spend way too much time in.

[Cool-Vest_Leo]

Of all places to see a Tierzoo collab, I wasn't expecting this. But then again, he shows up wherever and whenever he wants.

[theunwittingj]

What really happens after you end your playthrough: "You can now play as Luigi"

[Max.pina]

I speedruned all the 7 deadly achievements

[vaiohelsworth]

You forgot the TierZoo vocal enthusiasm in this one