Meanwhile, JC Denton literally beating Bill Gates Bob Page to death with a shock club while fending off murder parrots and spiderbots to wrest the Universal Printer away from the hands of billionaires.
I dearly love Deus Ex. It was such a perfect blending of conspiracy theory nonsense with actual, serious problems, done in a way where thinking about the conspiracies lead me to a better understanding of how politics and power work.
I think that’s part of why I bounced off the re-boots. Without the absurd layers of weird conspiracy shit and esoteric philosphy the substance of the game that so fascinated me wasn’t there.
See I never got that far but I thought the plot was that working class people were being forced to get cybernetics to gain employment, and then the capitalists were using control over the anti-rejection drug to discipline labor. And then the protagonist reprised JC’s role as savior, or I guess being Adam the first man, by having some goofy biological trait that allowed him to accept cybernetics without needing the anti-rejection drug and somehow giving this ability to the people to free them.
Meanwhile, JC Denton literally beating
Bill GatesBob Page to death with a shock club while fending off murder parrots and spiderbots to wrest the Universal Printer away from the hands of billionaires.I dearly love Deus Ex. It was such a perfect blending of conspiracy theory nonsense with actual, serious problems, done in a way where thinking about the conspiracies lead me to a better understanding of how politics and power work.
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I think that’s part of why I bounced off the re-boots. Without the absurd layers of weird conspiracy shit and esoteric philosphy the substance of the game that so fascinated me wasn’t there.
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See I never got that far but I thought the plot was that working class people were being forced to get cybernetics to gain employment, and then the capitalists were using control over the anti-rejection drug to discipline labor. And then the protagonist reprised JC’s role as savior, or I guess being Adam the first man, by having some goofy biological trait that allowed him to accept cybernetics without needing the anti-rejection drug and somehow giving this ability to the people to free them.
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Batman voice: I didn’t ask for this