:yea: however, atleast in the game its shown that USSR has better living standards than US like free healthcare, education and shit. In game version of the U.S. is basically ancapistan (not that different from real life ig)
Strictly speaking Pondsmith wrote it as if Gorbachev's plan had worked out like Deng's instead of leading to liberal/fascist coups dissolving the USSR. He's got some absolutely galaxy brained takes and ideas but as far as libs go he's weirdly endearing.
It just liberalized. USSR stands for Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics and they're just as infested with megacorps as the rest of the still-habitable parts of the planet
One line of police dialogue referring to the game's Scavengers faction has been altered from the English "Couldn't all these assholes bite it out in the Badlands?" to a Ukrainian phrase that translates as "Couldn't all this rusnia bite it out in the Badlands?" As Tarasov explains, "'rusnia' is a Ukrainian derogatory term for russians. Scavengers are the stereotypical Eastern European gang in the game's universe."
There are like hundreds of academic papers showing crime is a primarily a product of social conditions (e.g., trauma, intergenerational trauma, poverty, inequality, social cohesion, unemployment, lead paint in your god damn house, education, neighborhood characteristics, etc.)
There's also tons of evidence that the American criminal justice system is biased against black Americans at every step of the way, including disproportionate police presence in black neighborhoods, more police contact, more negative interactions, being sentenced by white judges and juries, harsher sentences for the same crimes, lesser access to criminal defense, etc.
This likely means that 1 employee was responsible for it and did do it, however very little oversight goes into the translations and now that it's caused a problem the marketing/sales people are doing damage control because it will affect sales.
So not only did they fuck over builds and skill trees. (Firing a weapon uses stamina? Like WTF. Separating pistols into a completely seperate branch in cool away from the rest of the guns forcing you to pick a dedicated style instead of a hybrid well rounded char.) They went Oops! All Nazis!
I think I'l just finish my playthrough on the 1.63 beta patch on Steam and forget PL. The more I hear about this 2.0 thing, the more I get with the direction they went.
I genuinely am, but for the exact opposite reasons conservatives are. They think everything is being controlled by jewish communists when in fact it's just liberal brainworms. Every time I see a game about "fighting megacorporations" I just assume it's another shitty game about spray painting an anarchist A while some quippy millennial character cracks jokes over your earpiece, and the megacorporation CEO is some 2010 hipster beard having ass who also acts like the world is his stand up routine audience
the megacorporation CEO is some 2010 hipster beard having ass who also acts like the world is his stand up routine audience
Best I can do is a Gen-Xer with a literal neckbeard who acts like the world is his stand up routine audience and throws billion dollar tantrums if people don't laugh.