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Aloden

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Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 12h

I remember the developers saying that bioshock is about how utopia is impossible because the inherent flaws of humanity combined with our free will means that we will always fail to live up to the standards of any utopian society regardless of the ideology. Not the worst idea but poorly executed.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 12h

I dont think theres anything inherently wrong with making vox populi villians, there are plenty of revolutions that went of the rails and caused widespread death and destruction but that story needs to be better told then just saying that fighting white supremacists makes you no better then them.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 13h

Bioshock infinite should have been two games. The first being the one we got minus the vox populi twist and the second should have had daisy as the protagonist and been set in columbia post revolution as vox populi falls apart due to the typical issues successful revolutions have.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 16h

Honestly thats the most likeable part of that monster.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 1d

The only reason why I can't see Elon Musk using a pocket dimension black site to imprison his exes is that he would definitely create a black hole the moment he tried to turn on his portal because he fired the portal engineer for being woke.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 1d

Lex Luthor from Superman 2025 has become my favorite supervillain because he acts just like every other Silicon Valley technofascist would act if superman was a real person. Especially the obsession with superman having a secret harem to replace humanity with alien-human hybrids.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 1d

You know I starting to realize that a big flaw in a lot of well written villains is that the writers often give their villain an understandable and relatable backstory to give them nuance and a reason for their actions when in real life ppl do horrible things over the pettiest grievances imaginable

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 1d

I'm still so confused by the backlash. Like I get not liking the movie even if it's my third favorite Star Wars movie, everyone's entitled to their own opinion. But the sheer number of people who have hated TLJ to the point of being negatively polarized into fascism is insane.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 1d

This argument has never made sense to me because if germany was not prone to imperialist, authoritarian and antisemitic beliefs why did so many ppl embrace the nazis so quickly? You dont go from a minor party to the ruling party in a decade without a lot of ppl already agreeing with your ideas.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 2d

I do not understand these kinds of people. Like I also dont like piercings but I know thats just a personal preference and just mind my own business. Why do ppl waste their time insisting others have to act just like them?

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 2d

They genuinely give me hope for the future because if they can succeed when given the sheer amount of completely unfair odds stacked against them then creating a genuine peoples republic that isnt just state capitalism with a red paint job is possible in the rest of the world too.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yeah Im aware of them. One of my favourite journalists is robert evans of behind the bastards fame, he used to be a war journalist in the 2010s and did a podcast mini series called the womens war where he traveled to rojava to meet there all female militia and document their fight against ISIS.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 2d

Between that and national socialism right wingers are really good at taking good ideas from the left and fucking it up in the worst way possible.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 2d

I know i just wanted to be specfic because socialism has so many definitions to so many people it could be easy to misinterpret.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 2d

To be clear im not an anarchist, my ideology is basically social democracy but all businesses should be worker co ops. I just have a healthy respect for anarchism even if im not a part of it. Seeing it get lumped in with libertarians is a little annoying.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 2d

You do realise that are both left wing and right wing forms of anarchism right? Anarchism means more then just abolish the government.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 3d

Its amazing what being a kennedy will let you get away with until a bullet hits you.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 3d

Not often do I get to be proud of my country but damn at least we're good on this topic.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 3d

Not often do I get to be proud of my country but damn at least we're good on this topic.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly just have the cops also kill a guy for jaywalking and this is the american justice system in a nutshell.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 3d

Im now just imaging you pitching your books the same way I pitch world war z to people. No no this story isnt about erotica is about why people failured to respond to the erotica apocalypse until it was too late and the eventual recovery told through the pov of multiple survivors of the erotica war.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 4d

I guess it would technically save it, in an accelerationist "burn the old world and build a new one on its ashes" kind of way.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 5d

Made even funnier by the fact there's a real-life analogue. Officers stopped wearing bright colorful insignias after the invention of the sniper rifle for a good reason.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 6d

While I know everyone's sick of Aaron Sorkin, I think a west wing style political drama set in the federation that handles the actual politics and ideology of a democratic post scarcity sci fi utopia would be pretty dope.

Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 6d

Like is the Holodomor, the red terror, the great purge all fake to you?