That was only a side remark to make sure we are on the same page that none of that is really realistic, just some is less and some is more.
Just as an example of something you might or might not have noticed, isn't it very very weird that you need to cook murky water so you can make glue out of it? Does it mean that simple bacteria somehow prevent glue making?
Ah well, if you make an effort you can try to explain everything in a fake kind of way. So lets say that lake water is so dirty/toxic/whatever that you can't use it for glue and for drinking. Since even murky water is not good enough for glue (something we all have accepted without much protest) it sounds logical that even more contaminated water does not produce glue reliably as well. And your character in the game seems to know no way to make lake water into clean water, not with just cooking it for a while. So your character does not use lake water for anything, he knows it makes only problems. Sounds faintly logical so far? Now the only exception is, that he actually will drink water from the lake in life-or-death situations, before he is to die of thirst. Luckily he seems to only get dysentery instead of something serious.
Hey, don't blame me for trying
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I once watched the movie "Mission Impossible 2". I liked MI1 and also had no problem with MI2 until that scene at the end in the tunnel where they had a flying helicopter tied to a train in a train tunnel and the helicopter did not crash!! I could not accept that. It soured the whole movie and the series for me and it took a long time for me to forget and have fun watching later parts of the series.
Now I told this to friends and it seems nobody else had that same reaction. For them this part was not exceptionally "impossible" but on par with the rest of the movies exaggerated action. Maybe the lake water in 72D2 is *your* helicopter moment. For me it is just on par with all the other stretches of believability I accept to have a fun experience.
I did notice that, and from what I recall other people have too but didn't make a big fuss out of it. It kind of fell to the wayside among bigger issues like, "Where are my goddamn jars?", "Aarghh, dew collectors!", "I'm dying of thirst, water, I need water!", and, of course, most important of all, "Why can't I gather water from a body of water?"
I like your "explanation" though. It really stretches basically everything, but if you want it to it does make sense. I can completely relate. If I like something and there are plotholes - in the widest sense - I have no problem filling them with whatever I deem fits.
But as much as I like your explanation - and I know it's not meant to be taken seriously - it doesn't work for me. Which is my problem. Nothing works for me here. It's just too much. It demands too much.
As far as I'm concerned, one of the best assets of 7DTD is how natural it feels. The - occasionally - nonsensical roads aside. cities, towns, the rural areas, they all feel like it's something you're familiar with. I think this is one of 7DTD*s greatest draws. The whole voxel thing where you can create and destroy basically everything, the horde night which necessitates figuring out a good base, the game stage concept, etc. etc., all of that, I believe wouldn't be as fun to engage with if it weren't for this attempted realism of the world. That's how I see it, in any case.
And the thing is, with this whole no-gathering-water-from-bodies-of-water, they're taking away from that. Which for me, in consequence, takes away from the whole game.
In any case, I remember that scene from Mission Impossible 2. Just my thoughts: Scenes like that is why I believe that we see superhero movie after superhero movie in the movies these days. Because they can do completely nonsensical, over-the-top, eye-candy bull@%$# scenes like that and people will accept it. Because "superhero movie", who gives a @%$#.
They can do these scenes - which they know rakes in the money - and no one will bat an eye.
So yes, you're probably right, the lake water issue in 7DTD is my "helicopter moment", I'm just saddened to see that TFP chose to go down that route. Just like in Hollywood movies, apparently, sooner or later you just want to rake in the money.
