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[-] lath@piefed.social 18 points 12 hours ago

Well if you think about it, it might be hard to adapt a video game about a dude going into a reclusive city under the ocean where the rich and powerful harvest little girls to make drugs which gives them superpowers.

Unless I'm remembering that part wrong?

[-] fonix232@fedia.io 10 points 5 hours ago

Specifically, it's a libertarian "utopia" that couldn't have worked in ideal circumstances, let alone under the ocean where cooperation and fight for the common good - thus rewarding the actual workers - would be a necessity to survive.

Ryan Cohen gives a grand speech at the beginning of the game, about how capitalism, communism, etc. takes away from the workers, the artists, from those who actually work. And how Rapture is different, putting emphasis on a very... Randian view of individualist libertarianism. No regulations, no taxes, no government, everyone does their best and gets the best life, singing kumbaya. Right?

Hell no. The society quickly picks up the worst parts of communism, capitalism, and everything in-between. Workers are exploited, to the point where, just to keep things going, all maintenance (Big Daddies) get genetically modified, spliced into their suits, and brainwashed into doing the most dangerous jobs. Little girls (orphans first, then poor people's kids, at the end even the rich and powerful families' kids aren't safe) are kidnapped, also genetically and biologically modified, for the sole purpose of producing (and extracting from corpses) ADAM, the substance that allows the genetic modification in the first place...

So yeah I can see why it wouldn't be adapted to a movie, especially after Epstein's first arrest for child sex trafficking.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 minutes ago

You say that like horror movies are not a thing?

[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

You know that's actually pretty much correct

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 149 points 18 hours ago

he didn’t go into detail about what made these calls so “contentious” and “disastrous,”

Save your clicks.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Amazing, you distilled 5k words into 1 sentence.

(OK, that sounds way too sarcastic when it isn't my intention)

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Thank you. This is often why I check the comments first.

[-] _m_cubed_@lemmy.world 20 points 14 hours ago

At one point gore verbinski was trying to get an adaptation of bioshock off the ground as well. He couldn’t get the financing unless agreed to make it pg-13, but he was only interested in making a hard r-rated version.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 hours ago

I don't think that's what "hard r" means

[-] _m_cubed_@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)
[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 minutes ago

It's funny because we used to have such a thing as XXX, to distinguish from "just X" but I guess RRR doesnt work as well?

I suppose people might think they are pirate movies, hah!

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

As it should be, what out of touch suited stooge would think you could pull off BioShock at the same rating as shrek?

[-] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

What? Shrek is a PG movie for children... They wanted a PG-13 rating target. It's the equivalent of T for teens in video games.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

Maybe the producer insisted the plot must include a giant mechanical spider.

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/wild-wild-west-jon-peters-giant-spider/

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I'm not sure the ending twist would sit well with movie audiences. I'm still not sure how I feel about

spoilerthe fact that you play as a three-year-old accelerated aged clone of Andrew Ryan

Edit: it took me way too long to figure out that formatting. It's entirely counterintuitive to any other social site I've used before.

Not sure if that was intended, but on piefed/voyager, the spoiler tag in your comment doesnt work. I think the three colons and the spoiler keyword shouldnt be separated.

[-] FlihpFlorp@piefed.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

that might be a you issue (and issyou if you’re so inclined) as I’m on voyager too and the spoiler tag is working

Maybe they edited it and fixed it would be my guess

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 minutes ago

I dunno about takapapatakapata but as for me, I see plain text in Jerboa

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I don't know how to make it work, I'm sorry.

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

This is how to format it.

Visible text
Hidden text

For example

Secret
I'm your father.

Looks like

Secret
I'm your father.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

Yep, that's working in Jerboa. All three instances though I reckon your examples need code délimiters.

:::
Spoiler?
:::

::: Whereas this is hidden :::

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

That's weirdly convoluted and confusing. I use Summit, but you'd think some of these apps might have figured this out by now.

[-] aaaa@piefed.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Just start your spoiler tag on a new line. It may not be intuitive, but it's an easy fix

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Agreed, it's not terribly intuitive.

[-] esc@piefed.social 3 points 15 hours ago

He is his biological son, not a clone.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

“Okay, so I might have been a little drunk when I called him. And I might have made a crude joke about Big Daddy's drill.”

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