Hi, I was banned for expressing my pro-Ukraninan views in the cloppy smut : gape orangatang (CS:GO) forums earlier today. I still have my allotted 12 minutes of screen time left today, and I've had a lot of time to reflect on games I'd like to replay when I'm released. so here i am.

I am blown away by how well the story of bios shock deconstructs and criticizes leftism. The main character of the story, Andrews Ryan is so interesting to me. He is not a good guy by the time the player meets him in the story, but he has good (even if flawed) ideas. his radio messages and announcements explain his worldview, and it distills perfectly how people just want government handouts and don't actually want to work for anything. people should have the freedom to choose any life they want without fear of tyranny from the goverment. who could argue with that? my first job was drilling holes into bowling balls, and then I'd deliver newspapers on the way home. I was a nighttime newspaper deliverer. it was not rewarding work, and i found chewed up double bubble (and other unspeakable things) inside these bowling ball holes one too many times to count, leaving me with an aversion to all things gum flavored. however, It taught me the value of hard work, and that I should not rely on anyone else but myself instead. my parents kicked me out at 21 because they couldn't handle my wild lifestyle, like blasting rage against the machine at 2 AM or dusting off the occasional NWA CD while throwing a Fallout: New Vegas LAN party with my friends from Cincinnati. Nowadays when I go bowling I think back at the lessons i learned. My gf has to use specialized bowling balls because of her condition. Anyway, if i remember the plot correctly, Fountain is clever enough to corner the market on gene splicing drugs called ALAN with the help of a former German prison inmate and Dr. Sulu (possible communist?) and he turns out to be the real villain of the story when he lets the power get to his head. that's crony capitalism for ya. People go crazy for this spliced genes and it turns Rapturn into a war zone. I think this could be alluding to an anti-drug message? Which i have mixed feelings on as a libertarian. I mean if you want to destroy your body with drugs that is your choice, just keep it in the home. the brainwashing the player character endures might have some 1984 undertones, a parallel to the double think that liberal media engages in. they try to convince people what to think and use keywords such as "privilege", "microaggression", "live-in wage", or "cishet". This is a kin to the keyword phrase hypnosis that Atles uses early in the game and Andre Ryan reveals and activates on you when you go to his office and kick his ass with that five iron. another 1984 reference is the way cameras are always watching you like the truman show, and then if you're in the spotlight too long you are cancelled, like cancel culture. And also they named one of the plasmids "enrage"? Sound like any annoying / triggered people you know that can't take a joke?
what really takes this story to the next level is the big daddy and little sister dynamic, who i think are representative of the power of unions. little sisters are the workers and the big daddies represent union thugs doing their bidding and using their influence over "government muscle" to intimidate anyone who tries to fight back. the little sisters collecting ALAN from the corpses might be a metaphor for union dues being extracted from your paycheck. when the little sisters refer to dead bodies as "engels", i think it could potentially be a reference to Frederick "Engels", Marxist revulsionary writer from 1860s Germany, and a card-carrying supporter of Maoist philosophy. They envision the dead as having paid for their sin by peverting the free-market to abuse drugs, and they are facing their judgment with "Engle" in whatever bileshock's version of heaven is (though i think that's the plot of biosock infinity, no? I'll have to revise this theory after i play that one). RIP Pope Frances by the way, apparently he enjoyed to play video games before becoming a Pope?

basically i think andrew ryen's dream could have worked if drugs and other "parasites" had not found their way into rapture. true unchained capitalism hasn't been tried yet, and bionshock demonstrates the dangers of acting out a plan without fully considering all the risks first. bottom of the ocean? how does the glass not explode from water pressure?

boss fight at the end kinda lame, 9/10

would you kindly reply and tell me your thoughts or if I am onto something here? these are just my thought on the game, I am sure everyone has their own opinions.

thanks!