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  • It’s not super old, but the original BioShock is one of those games that you can point to and say “this is art”. It’s an amazing exploration of Ann Rand, capitalism, addiction, art, deregulation, unions, and greed, all with the most beautiful art deco levels. The mechanics of the powers you get are tied into the themes and your choices of how to acquire them are in themselves a statement of the self vs others. It’s well thought out from the ground up, from aesthetic choices to narrative ones, and one of the few games that absolutely nails it.

    I enjoy the gameplay of the second one even better, though I feel the attempt to explore collectivism doesn’t fit as well by using the same motifs as the first one, the dlc Minerva’s Den has the most tragic exploration of identity and the singularity out there.

    The third is fun to play but I think they were trying to explore too much of everything at once, between America, racism, classism, quantum states and everything else, and unlike the first two, the mechanics of the plasmids didn’t really lend anything to the story. The dlc is fun, but rewrote a poignant lesson from the base game and watered it down.






  • agent_nycto@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldOver Here
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    5 months ago

    Ok so you are saying Biden did those first three things as well as Trump, but Trump did some stuff that was good.

    Are you saying Biden didn’t do a single thing you said was good?

    Also you’re ignoring the whole “raped a 13 year old girl” and “tried to stage a coup against a fair election done by American civilians” and “34 counts of felonies” that Trump has also done, besides making fun of disabled people, the military, actively trying to get people to attack minorities and LGBT people …

    Sorry but it’s not really equivalent.



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    5 months ago

    I’m confused by how you phrased this. Are you saying Biden put kids in cages, built a wall and produced more Fossil fuels, or trump did? Or are you saying those things were good, and that trump also did other good things like pushing against the war machine and releasing prisoners (which were Biden’s somehow?)