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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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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I think "Half-finished" is probably giving it too much credit. They had evocative imagery they'd used a lot in the marketing and couldn't let go (all that "critiquing American Exceptionalism" stuff), but they'd either never figured out how to do a story w/it or got bored.
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So Levine blended his known centrist tendencies with the Prestige Imagery of American Exceptionalism Gone Wrong and his own metanarrative about Choice (TM) as represented in Quantum and used the Luteces to add just an extra dose of Vague Whimsy.
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Were Levine's centrist tendencies known at this point? Bioshock was pretty clear anti-Objectivism, and he very much wasn't responsible for 2 Not defending the guy, just not sure where his politics came up besides these two games
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Bioshock has Andrew Ryan go out nobly and has the real villain of the game be Frank Fontaine/Atlas, it has the anti-Objectivist vaguely socialist rebel against Ryan turn out to be a nihilistic gangster Honestly with a little tweaking an Objectivist would approve of it
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The main thing an Objectivist would object to in this tragic narrative is the idea that it was inevitable, you can't have a Galt's Gulch irl because no matter who you pick to populate it this shit will still happen
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And honestly the writing in Bioshock isn't deep enough to prove its point here It DOES in fact feel like maybe Ryan could've just used a better screening process to keep Fontaine out
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Levine also said in interviews he didn't mean it to be seen as starkly anti-Objectivist and that he has sympathy for Ayn Rand's viewpoint (but thought it couldn't work IRL).
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