Oh no they are absolutely 110% intended to be read as "turning evil." "Your homes are ours! Your lives are ours! YOUR WIVES ARE OURS!"
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl
Like, the bothsides is just inescapable. This is not them being angry at Booker as a "War criminal" - he's NOT; this is a world w/o the concept. They're just intended to be seen as brutal barbaric rape-and-murder-happy rebels.
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Replying to @loudpenitent
Ok but some people at the time, esp. PoC, knew Wounded Knee was evil Also, *he's Comstock*
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent
The only person whom it's even vaguely hinted might actually know the secret that Booker is Comstock is Slate, and I really think they just meant that as meta foreshadowing rather than actual knowledge (the only way Slate's lines work as him actually knowing is if he
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(The only way Slate's lines work as him actually knowing is if he knows but he's too crazy to actually articulate it or act rationally on that basis Which is terrible)
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I think it's pretty well established that no one but Comstock -- and I guess the Fink brothers -- even *could* know Booker is Comstock The whole basic concept of alternate timelines has been suppressed by Comstock as harshly as he can to the point of trying to murder the Luteces
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Nothing, at all, about Infinite's plot makes any goddamn sense. It's like three different game concepts awkwardly stapled together using each other for unearned cred, with the husk of a "criticism of American exceptionalism" being the most blatantly used.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl
Sure They had a half finished game they had no way to write an ending for, and decided to stitch everything together with "quantum flux"https://www.theonion.com/sci-fi-writer-attributes-everything-mysterious-to-quant-1819570928 …
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I love how this ancient Onion article actually matches the plot of Bioshock Infinite really well Like, this is actually a specific turning point that happens in the story of the game, the "quantum flux" starts exploding everywhere after Comstock diespic.twitter.com/zxktKEYGKK
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And Burial at Sea is in fact a "fluxquake" (quite literally, with the collapse of the paradise Paris dimension) that's supposed to tie up all the loose ends of both Bioshock Infinite and Bioshock 1pic.twitter.com/XxLmKO4Xcd
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And this punchline is just throwing shade on Ken Levine's whole careerpic.twitter.com/t2rLcD3GFC
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