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[–] 185 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

Save your clicks.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    RRR is one of my favorite movies! It's age rated NR in the west but I think that only really shows how weighed the system is against nudity and sexual themes and discounts a great deal of violence.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    I wonder if this was before or after A Cure For Wellness, because there's a fair amount of overlap between ACFW and BioShock.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Here’s a recent article that goes into some more detail. It looks like they were in active planning around 2008-2013ish.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    dive deeply into the Oedipal aspect

    keep it hard R

    really f***ing with people's heads

    demented art-deco aesthetic

    A Cure For Wellness was 2016. Verbinsky definitely brought some of his notes from BioShock with him.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month 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/

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

    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.

    Edit : it works now !

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    This is how to format it.

    Visible text
    Hidden text

    For example

    Secret
    I'm your father.

    Looks like

    Secret
    I'm your father.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Everyone here seems to be assuming it would follow the same story as the game, and saying it wouldn't work as well. Obviously it wouldn't. That one was made for a game. That isn't the only story you can tell with Bioshock though, as evidenced by Bioshock 2. There's a lot of room for new stories in Rapture if they wanted to do it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    He just didn't ask the right question, would you kindly?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    "So what are your ideas for the third act?"

    "What's a 'third act'?"

    click

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    [–] 58 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    TLDR: Bad phone call, but he can't talk about it, expanded to 5k words.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Thank you. We really need people like you

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    I think they, more or less, divided what was nonexisting to begin with? And nothing happened. Huh.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Dude, are you a really early gen LLM bot, or are you just high most of the time? Your comment history is trippy.

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  • Drugs aren't the only thing to break the strings that you balkingly candid denied defining every thing you say being anything more than and context-less insult. By and large, most odds here are that you're getting me like a politician dope kazoo with your Hippos fucking like rabbits.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    "okay so it's a criticism of Randian philosophy"

    "I'LL KILL YOU YOU MONSTER FUCKING FUCK FACE"

    That's about how I think it went.

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