If you haven't been paying attention to one Ken Levine, he's undergone a quiet chuddening over the years as he became an enlightened centrist type and started liking the tweets of Quillette writers on twitter, joining Razib Khan rooms on Clubhouse, and going on Colin Moriarty's vidya podcast. We saw a trailer for his new game at last night's PlayStation State of Play:
The keen investigators 
at ResetEra suspect something is up:
Look forward to more seethe should this game ever actually release 
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So many chuds recently
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the pendulum is swinging back, mashallah
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GUYS THE PENDULUM IS SWINGING BACK, YEAR OF THE CHUD LETS GO
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Tbqf anything in current year that vaguely diverges from the corporate-approved rainbow capitalist religion is literally Hitler.
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The pendulum is a guillotine and its time to behead some chuds.
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conservative perspective as they live put βThe Pit and the Pendulumβ
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good
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they seem so defensive when the description just describes a fictional dystopia
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The communist utopia is everypony else's dystopia including these useful idiots
Trans lives matter
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The fictional dystopia was created in bad faith.
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When I was a kid I thought these all these crazy social dystopian scenarios were so impossible that it made reading the stories kind of unenjoyable. Now I see people like these commentors and realize not only is it possible, it's a future that a surprising number of people yearn for.
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I'm finding I get more enjoyment from the reaction to video games than I do from video games themselves.
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It means youwe are getting old 
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The virgin g*mer vs the Chad culture war enjoyer
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Lol I don't really play games but I go on /v/ almost daily because there's always some stupid culture war shit going on and the threads are so r-slurred it's funny
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That was over the course of 2-3 years and was also one of the only games I played
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Yeah I used to check out kotakuInAction all the time, it had hilarious seething.
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Billythreads and schizobait are the only salvageable parts of /v/.
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Does anyone else get irrationally upset when video games or movies do completely the opposite of what you think they're going to do. Like why wasn't the movie Barbie just about Barbie doing fun stuff. It didn't have to be about like stretch marks and being old. All they had to do is make a movie about Ken and Barbie having fun.
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I used to but I got over it when I realized this type of media can't help but gimp itself by making it too preachy or contradictory. Like Barbie. Moans about the patriarchy in the real world and how horrible it is compared to Barbieland but at the end of the movie Barbie chooses to go live there anyways, thus undermining the message entirely.
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There's no such thing as fun anymore. Everything needs to have a progressive message.
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Fun is ironically harder to write than injecting a predictable social message, and also gets less people shilling for you for free.
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I don't care if movies have a message, even a movie like Barbie. What sucks is when they beat you over the head with it. Tell the story and let the audience interpret it, don't just have a scene where one character lectures the message at the audience because you're afraid someone might not have gotten the point.
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That's cause you're a tue dramatard. Be proud baby, you're perfect just the way you are
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Good luck gaymers.
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How does that make sense
How does sigma male twitter avatar make sense exactly
No really. Someone explain it.
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Here's your explanation:
You can see the impact of both those devs!
BIPOC dev: we wuz wonda wumens n shietz!
Woman dev: lex luthor would hate toxic masculinity irl
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Are all Amazons like Wonder Woman cos if so how exactly did the modern world repress a whole species of people like Superman?
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it's literally a funny picture of saul goodman, are you neurodivergent?
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Don't sealion your way out of this.
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that's not sealioning
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Don't bikeshed your way out of this one.
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We're really in the longhouse now
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I think he's saying that one is an accomplished writer with credentials and the others are diversity hires.
Left one worked on successful games while the other 2 I've never even heard of.
Or it's a chud who thinks white man writer good, 2 bipoc female writer bad
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Memology 101 is an r-slured thirdie from Honduras who makes rightoid ragebait for a living. It doesn't have to make sense, it only has to make you mad.
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I don't get it
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YOU ARE CURSED.
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It's not my fault
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You want neckbeards writing capeshit.
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Paul Dini is a capeshit legend and the other two are literally whos
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I thought cancel culture didn't exist, and only accountability culture/consequence culture existed, and that it's a good thing
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Fun Fact: Ken Levine hosted an open discussion at my small liberal arts college
Everyone's questions fell into either two categories -- "Why No Women/BIPOC Video Games" or "WTF happened to infinite, man?"
After a few years of that, the chuddening was inevitable
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Infinite had so much raw writing and interlocking concepts that it had to be a somewhat coherent idea at some point.
No idea what the frick that coherent idea was, but it had to be something.
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The TL:DR answer he gave was essentially suffering from success
BioShocks success afforded him huge resources and a team size, but he had too many ideas to coherently organize between different departments
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The Duke Nukem Forever effect
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Why were people confused with infinite it made perfect sense
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Nothing was confusing it was just r-slurred.
In order for it to make sense within itself you had to abandon the central "time is a flat circle" jacking off point it was trying to make.
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It felt like the writers got bored of the story they were writing and made it something else 4 times. The story makes sense but it has no idea what it wants to be
It also just wasnt very fun
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I remember when the Twins were introduced 10 minutes in I was like βoh Booker is Comstock obvi wow.β
And then the game spends like 30% of its metanarrative spouting off about how there are infinite possibilities and it's too fractal for anything to overlap, and the Twins only overlapped because they wanted to. So Booker/Commie couldn't be the same person statistically because they're opposed to each other.
And then they just did it anyways.
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ResetEra users have the gall to act like they aren't the ones with Twitter brain rot?
The abyss always stares back with these types.
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That's /r/drama and reddit
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Bioshock infinite was the only good bioshock
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weak bait, 1/10 made me reply
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I'm completely unironic. I played infinite first and it was so cool and awesome and looks great but then I tried to play the first 2 and they were sooooo boring I couldnt.
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The original gameplay teasers for Bioshock:Infinite we so amazing. You can do all this wacky stuff with plasmids and looked like it was going to play very different. The game we got was alright, but I think ended up being a more stripped down version than what the studio initially planned to release. It came out more like a standard shooter of the time, but with a rail riding mechanic. And having someone follow you around and just constantly heal and feed you ammo eliminated a lot of the tension the previous Bioshock games had.
My point is, it could have been a way better game, and i hate change
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What gave you that impression?
Was it when the horrifying ambient stalker monsters were cut and their design regurgitated as camera turrets in a nonsensical dream sequence?
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The what?
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They were good for their time, but they're certainly clunky and rough around the edges if you've played Infinite first
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The only thing Bioshock I care about is Elizabeth
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I have seen the most unspeakable things done to this character.
And only like half of it was even hot.
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!coomers Biopeepee Infinite Elizabeth and the 2012 reboot Lara Croft were the Kweens of early 2010s SFM kino
That said though, you are right, this was the time when DeviantArt/Furry cute twinkry was still quite popular in SFM circles, before they fricked off to their own niche fetish shitholes, and the Elizabeth/Lara anims were 50/50 whenever if they were gross or hot
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Like what?
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Mayos and their consequences
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Bioshock that kitty until it gushes.
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The story was really badly written.
The ideas were decent, but the underlying mechanics were r-slurred, and ruled by convenience.
It looked great, though.
No comment on the gameplay, since I wasn't the one actually playing.
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Story in vidya is never good.
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Because games writers are failed movie writers that completely ignore the fact that linear stories don't use the only storytelling advantage video games have - interactivity.
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You obviously haven't played any of the Hideo Kojumbo games, or one of Quantic Dreams cinematic experiences (TM).
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Bideo Fijima just makes cheap spy romps with a dash of 14-year old profoundness. Not bad games, not good stories.
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I was only unironic in disagreinggg (spellcheck died, no idea how to spell this now...) with the point, not the examples.
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Play first biocoΡk
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Not true.
Empire Total War for example allows you to recreate the birth of the United States in beautiful detail. You can even sail over to Britain and bring the revolution to King George's doorstep.
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Gameplay was completly forgetabble all enemies were stupid bullet sponges.
The only thing i can remember is how racist it was lol.
https://rdrama.net/audio/17068019977853792.oga
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The story in the first game was good, if a little cliche. The third was just a mess by comparison.
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Fun gameplay for a single
playthrough cool mechanics that definitely should've been better 
refined. Great 
movement ideas with the rails for that era of gaming
Communism will win
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unironically seething at this post
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Look into your heart, you know it to be true
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They are derivatives of System Shock.
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Now those darn little annelids, those were scary.
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What?
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Genetically engineered worms that the evil AI used to attack you in System Shock 2. Have you never played the classics?
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Shodan made the Many but she didn't control them.
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No?
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The fricking first one is a fricking derivative of System Shock. The fricking other two aren't
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Also, how long does the fricking Edgy award
last?!? I don't see a fricking time limit, and I hate having to swear all the fricking time
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Mouse over the badge on your profile. It'll last about 2 more hours
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Thanks a fricking lot, king, motherlover!
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In the sameway a lunchable is a derivative of a charcuterie board, sure.
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Bioshock is literally the same game as SS2 but more linear. They even have the same exact plot twist.
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Okay boomer.
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The alternate title was way better. Bioshock : How Do You Configure Your Vigors, BIPOC?
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!downmarseyrs he's still above 0
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im right u know
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All three were amazing
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About what?
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The first Bioshock is my fav but Infinite has two of my most favorite things in the franchise: the Luttece siblings and the vigor that lets you attract bullets into a magnetic field, shit was broken it was a delight to play with it lmao
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All bioshock games were good.
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I've seen resetera posts with better takes than this.
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I tried playing the first one and died of boredom in hour 1
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Try infinite its 100x better, the opening is so good.
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