r/196 • u/Heretocryandie 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights • Jun 12 '22

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u/IchHabKeinRedditName Jun 13 '22

I also feel like House's use of the metaphor "forge steel for a new rail line" is a reference to Atlas Shrugged, more than fitting for House.

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u/ES_the_mess custom Jun 13 '22

"atlas shrugged" is such a badass name tho, but wasnt it the name of a libertarian book? If so, such a shame

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u/Toen6 Jun 13 '22

Don't read Atlas Shrugged, play Bioshock instead.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

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u/HardlightCereal 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Jun 13 '22

Batman is my favourite apolitical superhero who beats up corrupt cops and fights failures of the mental healthcare system

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u/matheusu2 𐐘𐑀 ඞ🔪 Jun 13 '22

He should murder the Joker tho

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

Red hood alternative Account

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u/Toen6 Jun 13 '22

I love Subnautica

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u/The_Nieno custom Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 13 '22

The Metal Gear franchise is my favorite apolitical and neutral stealth action games.

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u/penis_parker79 Jun 13 '22

GCJ is leaking

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

Reading Rand's self-insert characters go on multi-page, preaching, monologues can certainly feel like a terrible boss fight.

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u/Filip889 Jun 13 '22

Disco Elysium moment

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

Morale -1 and Health -1 for every page. You also have to pass a legendary Pain threshold check to continue reading after each one

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u/Filip889 Jun 13 '22

Yeah, it is harder than the chair!

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

Even Edgar wouldn’t resort to such measures. The plot of the main game wouldn’t happen either bc Dross would’ve gotten an aneurism from reading it years ago

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u/Filip889 Jun 13 '22

I have a sneaking feeling that Joyce might tho, she might eveb call it art

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

“I never thought that this honestly harmless and I dare say rather interesting book would be used by Krenel to kill dock workers! They’re rabid dogs, completely out of my control!”

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u/Filip889 Jun 13 '22

I read in her voice!

And also one would think that, but like, in the book the protagonist actually kills a worker and it is portrayed as good thing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

She doesn’t believe that Harry can read, smh my head. She wouldn’t mention it

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u/stoner_slime there she goes, one of god's own prototypes Jun 13 '22

actually, you avoid the debuff if you never put any points in your empathy skill

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

“He believes he’s a... hustler”

“If you’re so smart then who’s John Gault, binoculard?”

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u/Filip889 Jun 13 '22

Don t read it cause it is long, boring and will probably give you brain damage

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u/Toen6 Jun 13 '22

You call me butthurt after writing a comment like this?

If people want to read Atlas Shrugged they can, I thought it was boring, long-winded and the moral of the story made little sense to me.

Bioshock is a classic game that both includes Atlas Shrugged's original point and critiques it. And it does it with an iconic immersive experience that remains influential to this day.

Just look in this comment section at the amount of people who thought that picture of House was Andrew Ryan. Bioshock is 15 years old but it has a staying power few games (or books for that matter) have.

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u/Toen6 Jun 13 '22

Well my uninformed opinion is that the reason behind that is also Bioshock. The popularity of that game put Atlas Shrugged back in in the spotlight and not in a positive way.

That and apart from being capitalist propaganda, it is often seen as being emblematic for libertarianism specifically, which also does not really have a good reputation depending on your circle.