where an impoverished young woman is trying to sell herself into slavery and the game presents the most ethical outcome as helping her negotiate a better contract for her indentured servitude?

Looking back those games were Fukuyama'd as shit, jfc

  • DanicaTheRebel [comrade/them,she/her]
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    1 year ago

    The Mass Effect Earth codex literally states that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. It also says "Less fortunate regions have not progressed beyond 20th century technology, and are often smog-choked, overpopulated slums" implying that the global south is still brutally exploited by the West.

    I love ME, but it sucks how they basically just teleported the present neoliberal system 200 years into the future instead of doing something hopeful like Star Trek.

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Would've been fine if the storyline was becoming a spectre and then immediately using your authority to start a third worldist revolution on Earth.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      It is easier to imagine the Reapers wiping out interstellar civilization than it is to imagine the end of capitalism :zizek-fuck: