How...how do you play BioShock and think "yes this is the world I want to live in"
No, you see real liberatarianism has never been tried! The markets weren't free enough in Rapture!
Putting on a diving suit to catch glowing sea slugs so I can drink their ooze to grow Big Naturals in a dieselpunk Atlantis
they're called plasmids in the Bazingabrain underwater utopia, vigors is what the Christian nationalists in Columbia call themyou know how the old saying goes
Under the sea, it's plasmids for me
Up in the air, there's vigors over there
My mom taught me that when I was 4 and then everyone clapped
"What if dystopian hellworld... but you're on top?"
"What if throne of skulls... but you're sitting on the throne of skulls?"
"Rule in hell or serve in heaven?"
"Bruh you serve in hell already, like it and want to make it even worse hell"
Never read a book before, check
Zero media literacy, check
Never had a job before and live a comfortable life, check
Its
timeThere 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?
There’s not more than two dots to connect. It’s so on the nose. How could you walk away with a different interpretation?
For some, I wonder if the enlightened centrist bullshit of the sequel and especially Bioshock Infinite muddied the interpretation. Infinite even retroactively fucked with the first game's story.
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™.
Getting into National Socialism after watching Downfall
Getting into National Socialism after watching Downfall
How about getting into National Socialism after watching Downfall parodies?
Show
The first time I read a book and then another
we're so fucked.So they completely missed the part where Rapture's anarchism led to a civilization ruined by warring factions of organized crime
organized crime
Actually
there were no laws in Rapture, therefore no crimes except arbitrary rules declared by the ruling class. Checkmate. 
it was ruined because andrew ryan became authoritarian and started forcing people to do things by saying "would you kindly"
No no Fontaine ruined it by appealing to compassion and outrage and organized a rebellion. You are free to do anything in Rapture except whatever I don't like to see happen in Rapture
Can’t believe I’ve actually managed to sneak under the bar here, but yes. Yes I have.
I failed at reading Atlas Shrugged twice. It's one of two books I just refuse to fucking read.
He read his first book. It was an Ayn Rand novel. He was inspired to do so by a video game he had misinterpreted.
the guy who made the video is literally insane. And also a neo-nazi
The attempt to cram in a heart symbol on ever-mutating
symbols is like when the Randroids on 
crammed a peace button on their particular "Snoo" while talking about how they would butcher kids for stealing candy bars from their company stores.
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.
"This is why school is a joke and teachers are worthless. I can do my own research. 'Literary analysis' doesn't sound STEM to me. Stand back, I'm going to help build the Torment Nexus now." 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
Randian bullshitOh fuck you just reminded me that I wanted that tattoo when I was like 14
Many such cases
Also glad I never got a stupid Deathly Hallows tattoo, really dodged a bullet there lmao
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.
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
At least he knows libertarianism is gibberish
After the next two games,
and that American nationalism is racist to its core
but overthrowing it is at least as bad
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
My mistake, then. If it matters, I hated Infinite most of all, and it was no contest.
Maybe the curtains were actually just blue! Ha! Owned the leftoids(and my useless english teacher) yet again."It's really cool how my working conditions and state of precarity slowly get worse and worse while I build this Torment Nexus for my startup's owner, who also read the same book with autodidact expertise and also concluded we need to build a Torment Nexus as soon as possible to show how epic our startup is."
chip in his head.