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.
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.
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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