Yeah no it's a game that kind of demands a lack of nuance and then pushes nuance on you anyway You can't make a grotesquely exaggerated Jim Crow slaveocracy with minstrel shows and shit and then ask me for nuance about it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I mean, you find out Booker was at Wounded Knee and that he's a Pinkerton literally first thing in the game, before you see Columbia or its racism So you *know* you're a bad guy if you're paying attention
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I still consider a former Pinkerton better than a society that worships John Wilkes Booth and stones interracial couples to death with baseballs.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Absolutely. I'm just saying that the game is saying "you are not a good person" from the start
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I don't think in those terms, bluntly. Plenty of people do crummy things and then spend a lot of their lives trying to make up for doing the crummy thing. it's a classic noir character beat.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
I'm not entirely sure we disagree on this beat, although I think it's clear from the base game and DLC that Booker does not achieve redemption
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
If not in the base game, why else would Elizabeth kill the Rapture version of him, who ISN'T a war criminal? He's just cosmically fated to evil
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
The Rapture version of him absolutely is a criminal It's the version of Comstock who tried to take Anna from his alternate self but fucked it up and killed her in the process (the closing portal cuts off her head and not her finger)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
That's the big reveal, he's not actually from Rapture, he went there to hide in a dimension where he never existed at all and he could forget about all his sins (the retcon is that Rapture was always one of the alternate universes the Finks were harvesting tech from)
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And he's not really "a Booker", he's "a Comstock", he deliberately changed his look and his lifestyle to match his alternate counterpart's whose daughter he stole in order to further live in denial
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
There is a "best timeline" out there where Booker and Anna are happy, probably The tragedy is supposed to be that Elizabeth can't access it, it's for Anna and not Elizabeth - the point of divergence is before the incident where she was stolen from which she got her powers
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
(Btw the whole thing where Elizabeth's powers come from the accident that left her missing one of her fingers is another weird parallel between TLoU and Bioshock)
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