Chapo0114

joined 5 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hope the 360 is emulated well one day (maybe it is now, I haven't checked in a couple years) because I'd really like to nostalgia over Fable 2 again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

in the end

He started there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I know Hitler had Volkswagen created by (Porche iirc) to be the people's vehicle in early Nazi germany. Folks needed something to drive on the autobahn and the slaves needed something to build.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The only message is kinda that war is bad? And ambition unchecked by compassion is bad?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

I liked that it was a transparent critique of capitalism...but it encourages you to unite the nice liberals and anarchists on the second planet and turn off power to the co-op on the first planet for the best ending so...meh? It was better than most things at critiquing work culture and advertising but its so hamfisted and lacks focus, and in the end you don't bring about an anarchic or socialist state. New Vegas was a better critique of current America imo. Still, I enjoyed my time with it, 6.5/10.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

So, LeGuin is certainly not a utilitarian. She claims to be a Taoist, which I know little about, but the story's morality is almost Kantian. No suffering is morally permissible, there is no great balance. But I believe the story is trying to state that "This idealized world with only one suffering and all else reaping the benefits is still unethical, how much less is our world."

By the by, I am a utilitarian and can see the story as both a allegory in which I appreciate its message, and as a fiction where I'd choose this world over any realistic possibility.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

Pithy, I like it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (2 children)

I hate that homophobic Orson Scott Card wrote my favorite fiction while growing up, but it did introduce me to this concept early: "the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you."

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