Robussy is confirmed
this game is uncomfortably, inappropriately horny, and I'm saying that as a very normal cishet dude. Like, Nora is funny as a bit for a little while, but it just keeps going, and going, and going
There's a lesser confirm of sexbots very early in the game too, detailing how 'realistic skin textures' and more is just on the horizon for robotics. A gynoid with comically red lips tells you...
:shrug-outta-hecks: :spray-bottle:
Oh my god the Nora scenes make me soooo uncomfortable. It goes on so fucking long.
Nora is like a sexual harassment at the workplace simulator for men in a way
I've got to save the soviet union, Nora, please stop begging me to input my throbbing materials into your lubed up slots, just let me upgrade my shotgun in peace, I don't have time for this, please be professional about this for one minute, jesus christ get your tentacles out of my pants
Oh my god that’s such a good description. And honestly I could actually see that working in a different game. If the point is that to do even the basic tasks of your job you have to put up with the harassment I could see that working.
But in Atomic Heart it feels so out of place and I’m just like why the hell are we doing this please shut up
FO:NV did something similar in one of the DLCs with a hydroponics AI that hits on you everytime you ask it to process plant matter.
I think it gets a bit closer to that sort of point but IMHO still manages to fall short of it.
Yeah, but for the most part those games are pretty open and comfortable with being porn.
Look, all I'm saying is that it isn't "oversexualized portrayals" of women in games that are so much the problem, but that men are undersexualized.
:joker-gaming:
Oh yeah definitely, seeing sexualization constantly blasted into my face in a lot of media makes so much entertainment unwatchable or unplayable.
At one point the developer confirmed he made hours of porn cut scenes but he didn't add them to the game
"Why yes, I did spend a third of the animation budget on porn that doesn't make it into the game" :gigachad:
Make an onlyfans for the sex scenes, make more money than the game did
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What If these girls just want to :grill: , but horny gamers won't leave them alone?
this is horrible and the soviet union would not stand for it. unironically. :ussr-cry:
they took great fucking pride in the fact every citizen got to experience and have the ability to participate in the fine arts. even debates about robot sentience or moralism aside (which they definitely would be having), turning robotic ballerinas into prostitutes would be such a conscious replication of the way capitalist countries treat artists, it's unimaginable anyone would approve. accusations of sexual promiscuity amongst the communists are the oldest anticommunist tropes in print when the reality is we're as likely to have a heated debate at the orgy as an orgy at the party meeting
In capitalist countries, about 100 years ago the artistic community decided it had had enough of the filthy commoners and decided to exclude them from art. Permanently. Today, it's not getting better, it's getting worse.
Art simply isn't a part of anyone's lives any more. Unless you're well-off and have pretty much run out of things to buy. Then you fill that hole in your life with art buying and people kissing your ass because you're a "patron of the arts".
It is pretty clear that despite his accomplishments the Politburo fucking hates Sechenev and thinks he's a disgusting amoral monster and dangerous lunatic. Molotov in particular is thoroughly sick of his shit by the beginning of the game.
I mean in terms of the timeline: you get a glimpse of Molotov chewing him out after you get back to the surface and it's clear it's been going on for a while by that point. I think there are other indications the Politburo had been fed up with the creepy mad scientist shit going on in the facility for a long time later too, including the revelation that
plot spoiler
Petrov was whistleblowing the shit going on in the facility to the Politburo, which is why Sechenev framed him for treason in the first place.
I'm not sure where it's going from there, since I haven't had a chance to keep playing after starting the drill mode and the long cutscenes that followed, but that's the state of it in the early game at least.
:blob-no-thoughts: oh i'll never play the game & dont know any of the context lol. i dont like first-person exclusive games
Oh the people making the prostitute bots are painted as absolute pieces of shit (and antithetical to Soviet ideals) in in-game texts.
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And they were prostituting the human ballerinas before the robots were a thing too
:volcel-judge: atomic heart is encouraging counterrevolutionary behaviour.
From each to their ability but my ability is having powerful robot haunches and and a shiny metal ass.
Is it weird that the Soviet murder sexbots are low-key kinda goals?
It's weird isn't it?
Lol is there a way to turn on the Russian voice? Don’t think I want to go through the whole game hearing Generic American Man #382858 and British Robot #838728 again
you can play the game with russian voices with english subtitles.
:joker-gaming: If you say every pew pew time is a skeet skeet time no body bats an eye.
But if you say that not every pew pew time needs to be a skeet skeet time everyone loses their minds.
