Meanwhile, JC Denton literally beating Bill Gates Bob Page to death with a shock club while fending off murder parrots and spiderbots to wrest the Universal Printer away from the hands of billionaires.
I dearly love Deus Ex. It was such a perfect blending of conspiracy theory nonsense with actual, serious problems, done in a way where thinking about the conspiracies lead me to a better understanding of how politics and power work.
I think that's part of why I bounced off the re-boots. Without the absurd layers of weird conspiracy shit and esoteric philosphy the substance of the game that so fascinated me wasn't there.
See I never got that far but I thought the plot was that working class people were being forced to get cybernetics to gain employment, and then the capitalists were using control over the anti-rejection drug to discipline labor. And then the protagonist reprised JC's role as savior, or I guess being Adam the first man, by having some goofy biological trait that allowed him to accept cybernetics without needing the anti-rejection drug and somehow giving this ability to the people to free them.
Christ.
yeah we did end up getting cybercorporate memphis instead of cyberpunk huh?
We are getting Snow Crash instead of Japan Panic cyberpunk.
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there's no conceivable way to regularly hang out with your "friend" Jeff Bezos and still have good opinions
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Meanwhile, JC Denton literally beating
Bill GatesBob Page to death with a shock club while fending off murder parrots and spiderbots to wrest the Universal Printer away from the hands of billionaires.I dearly love Deus Ex. It was such a perfect blending of conspiracy theory nonsense with actual, serious problems, done in a way where thinking about the conspiracies lead me to a better understanding of how politics and power work.
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I think that's part of why I bounced off the re-boots. Without the absurd layers of weird conspiracy shit and esoteric philosphy the substance of the game that so fascinated me wasn't there.
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See I never got that far but I thought the plot was that working class people were being forced to get cybernetics to gain employment, and then the capitalists were using control over the anti-rejection drug to discipline labor. And then the protagonist reprised JC's role as savior, or I guess being Adam the first man, by having some goofy biological trait that allowed him to accept cybernetics without needing the anti-rejection drug and somehow giving this ability to the people to free them.
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Batman voice: I didn't ask for this