• Infamousblt [any]
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    3 months ago

    How...how do you play BioShock and think "yes this is the world I want to live in"

  • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    Never read a book before, check

    Zero media literacy, check

    Never had a job before and live a comfortable life, check

    Its ancaptain time

  • Pastaguini [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    There are times where people walk away from a piece of media with a weird interpretation and are accused of “no media literacy” and it’s a bit harsh because the piece of media might be more subtle in its politics or message or whatever, but bioshock literally opens by delivering a libertarian screed and then IMMEDIATELY showing you the havoc and ruin that resulted. There’s not more than two dots to connect. It’s so on the nose. How could you walk away with a different interpretation?

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    • Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      How could you walk away with a different interpretation?

      With a great deal of obstinance and a determination to reach the conclusion you intended to reach going in. Monolectical Idealism™.

  • Goblin [any]
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    3 months ago

    A libertarian read two books two years ago, did you?

  • puff [comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    So they completely missed the part where Rapture's anarchism led to a civilization ruined by warring factions of organized crime

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    • buh [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      it was ruined because andrew ryan became authoritarian and started forcing people to do things by saying "would you kindly" galaxy-brain

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  • peeonyou [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    bahaha.. i imagine there's a long winding path to escape the mind-rut they just put themselves in, especially since they don't read much.

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  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    Nothing convinced me more to not be an objectivist more than reading Ayn Rand. They are some of the worst written political screeds pretending to be theatre. Brecht is spinning in his grave.

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    • Thallo [love/loves]
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      3 months ago

      Anthem was one of the worst most childish books I've ever read

  • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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    3 months ago

    I'm so glad I was too socially anxious to go get the BioShock wrist chains tattoo when I was a teenager lmao

    Wow, cool Art Deco underwater city over-your-head Randian bullshit

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Oh fuck you just reminded me that I wanted that tattoo when I was like 14

      • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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        3 months ago

        Many such cases yea

        Also glad I never got a stupid Deathly Hallows tattoo, really dodged a bullet there lmao

        my-hairdo trans-gun

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    there's something to be said about how the protagonist from Bioshock 1 is a genetic slave with no functional identity, yet completely destroys a supposedly individualist utopia

    i've never quite figured that out, but Ken Levine is a goofball. At least he knows libertarianism is gibberish and that American nationalism is racist to its core

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      • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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        3 months ago

        I don't think Levine had anything to do with 2, but Infinite's writing sucked ass and 2 is arguably a better story than the original lmao

        For some reason I thought he had something to do with We Happy Few too, but I guess that was just me mixing up sophomoric on the nose disappointments and assuming he had something to do with it

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    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      so-true Maybe the curtains were actually just blue! Ha! Owned the leftoids(and my useless english teacher) yet again.