Video Game General 2: Definitive/Remastered Edition

Activision Blizzard Hires Union-Busting Firm As Workers Start To Come Together  
What the fuck

@Mikey  
Not surprising tbh. IIRC the US is so anti-union that them being on the security council is probably the whole reason unions aren’t mandatory worldwide.

Bioshock is a story about why businessmen men shouldn’t be leaders.
 
@Mikey  
Companies hate unions, and people willing to fill the niche of preventing/disrupting them. No one is saying it’s moral. If it was, companies wouldn’t pay them.

@Meanlucario  

 
Specifically Bioshock 1 a deconstruction of Ayn Rand’s Objectivism. The bottom line is, as everyone already knows, it does not work.
 
Bioshock 2 kinda jumped to the other extreme and gave us a deconstruction of Collectivism. It kinda lost some of the mystique because Collectivism isn’t pants on head stupid like Objectivism, so Bioshock 2 had to take an exaggerated form of its discussed ideology while Bioshock 1 got off easy by picking something that’s self-explanatorily bonkers.
 
Infinite does a specific form of theism, but the word escapes me for the moment.

@Dustcan  
Infinite was fascism in a hat from my understanding.

@Meanlucario
 
Hmm yeah I can see it. But it feels like there should be a term more suited for the cult focus the game uses than the more umbrella “Fascist” term.

@Mikey  
Saw this coming. Activision-Blizzard really doesn’t like changing their practices. We’ve seen this with greedy monitization, and now we’re seeing this with the lawsuit.
 
Good old Bobby Kotick would rather ignore marginalized employees in toxic environments, because doing something about it would lose him his $40 million bonus, even though he’s already a billionaire.
 
God, I hate that asshole.

@Penguin Dragneel  
They want the maintain the Status Quo, this is part of the late-stages of Capitalism.

@Dustcan  
Read somewhere of the word ethnotheism as in religion defined by race. The Nazis believed for example the inherent divine-ness of their preferred race.
 
However Infinite seemed to me to touch on some kind of hero worship, not unlike what North Korea wants its citizens to be doing when it comes to the supreme leader.
 
Then again, Comstock seems to be fit the average messianic / prophet-and-divine-head-of-state archetype, so theocracy also describes Columbia nicely.
 
But what do I know. Half the time playing the game, my focus are on Elizabeth’s amazing pair of breasts and butt.
 
then we found out she be our MC’s kid.
 
But then she’s not MY (the player’s) kid so it’s not creepy.

@Mikey
 
Relevant.
 

So it seems upgrading the Sacred Shield is out of the question because bird feathers are unobtainable in SSHD…

And now there’s a spinning wheel that’s physically impossible to get past without a stamina potion. I’m starting to remember why this game was so hated…

@NitroFury  
Just like when people were disappointed with Pokemon Sword/Shield jumped onto the bandwagon that Temtem would ‘kill it’s.
 
People are doing the same now that they got the OLED instead of a Switch Pro.

So I figured it out, and the stamina potion is literally worthless

Is it even possible to land in this nest? Answer: No.

@tehwatever  
Still pretty creepy.

@The Equestrian Zodiac  
Oh neat God Eater and Xenoblade :o

The way Sony is taking the PS5 in the direction that they’re going is not good at all.

@NitroFury  
And what direction might that be?
 
Not that it matters that much, I’ll never get one.

August 10th we’ll FINALLY see whether or not this absurd, fucking insane Hasan Kahraman Kojima Silent Hill Metal Gear Solid conspiracy actually has some substance or we’re just collectively losing our minds.
 
August 10th. Mark yer calendar everybody.
 
Fun fact: August 12 was when PT was released on PSN App Store 7 years ago.

@Dustcan  
Don’t forget donating to a cause to unrelated to situation.

@tehwatever  
No thanks. Had my fill of pseudo-philosophical walking/fetch quest sim only for 2 years later the “definitive edition”