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!
idk, you think they got an Estrogen vigor down there?
"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"
They think they will be the monopolist businessman
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?
Hitler Gangnam Style
The first time I read a book and then another
we're so fucked.A libertarian read two books two years ago, did you?
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
the guy who made the video is literally insane. And also a neo-nazi
average ancap
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." 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.
Anthem was one of the worst most childish books I've ever read
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
Oh no
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
I hope their new game is more coherent. It looks decent.
I HATE BLUE CURTAINS
I HATE BLUE CURTAINS
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."
Smugly reminding the communist revolutionaries of the NAP as they blindfold me in front of a wall.
Had a friend once who played Bioshock, went hard into Randian Objectivism, and then became convinced his cognitive dissonance was a superpower.
After he told me this, I started distancing myself from him and swore off amphetamines
and then became convinced his cognitive dissonance was a superpower.
Is this like when wooks experience empathy for the first time on molly and decide that they're indigo star-child empaths with psychic powers?
Is this like when wooks experience empathy for the first time on molly and decide that they're indigo star-child empaths with psychic powers?
Might as well have been
and then became convinced his cognitive dissonance was a superpower.
It is just how they interpret Will to Power, and it's really common among the hardcore and neophyte libertarians. To be fair, it is necessary to remain libertarian while reality always negatively verify their ideas.
Please read another book.
Aminal Farm. Checkmate leftoids.
Smartest libertarian
Lol, I knew a somewhat "successful" small business owner that went this route. This 2014 or so. Never reads or anything. He posted one day on fb about being in a book club at work and the book was some self-published rich dad poor dad ripoff without a wikipedia page. Couple years later he's running a vending machine business, posting pro trump propaganda, lecturing people on bASiC EcoNomIcS. Pretty sure he's up to his eyeballs in debt.
Kicker: he briefly got disillusioned by Trump and was tempted to support Andrew Yang in 2020.
Yang Gang
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Completely missing the point. The libertarian fantasy utopia completely collapses from a lack of any market regulation. A con artist figures out how to game the society and make a ton of money by being a predatory business man, cornering the market on genetic mutations. The utopia's founder sees this and says it's against the rules to make a bunch of money, sinks the con artist's department store, then a civil war starts because there's a huge underclass that doesn't benefit from any of the utopian libertarian stuff.
I think the in game timeline from the city's founding to civil war is about 9 years. Rapture is shown as completely dysfunctional and I don't know how anyone would interpret it as anything other than a failure cooked up by an insane goofball.
Serious question. I've played the System Shocks but never Bioshock, does the game actually present a pro-libertarian narrative or is this just another case of Gamers completely missing the fucking point like with Fallout?
The later games muddied the ideological waters because development was lead by an insufferably smug enlightened centrist prick, but the first game directly says "this Randroid fever dream failed. It failed before your character even showed up."
BioShock is like 90% nonsense, so it's not surprising that people misinterpret it. Like sure Rapture failed, but the actual reasons it failed are so completely nonsensical that I wouldn't consider it to really be a particularly effective anti-libertarian story
Torment nexus tweet
I know that linked channel. I chanced a System Shock video (iirc) from that goofball purely just to see if an
could make decent slop, and wooow is whoever runs the channel far out of touch with reality.Idk maybe the objectivist utopia of rapture would have worked had they not installed vending machines that sell drugs that turn give the user electric shock powers everywhere
don't think that has much to do with objectivism really like that's just nonsense
Saying that they couldn't sell drugs that give the user electric shock powers would be a regulation and regulations are communism don't you know?
Trying to stop me from injecting myself with magic seaslugs is violating the NAP, prepare to be alternately set on fire and frozen.
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Ayan rand
they're called plasmids in the Bazingabrain underwater utopia, vigors is what the Christian nationalists in Columbia call them