The dialogue and voice acting are both pretty clearly good... claiming Atomic Heart has better dialogue makes me pretty confused as to where you're come from. Agreed the intro is a punch to the gut to prepare you for how meanderingly slow the game is.
Ultimately though, never play videogames, they are trash, read a book.
It may not be conscious on the part of the white woman in this example, but this type of compliment is doubling as a way for her to give herself a healthy lib pat on the back compliment for being an ally or whatever
Scary hate-crime consequences aside, it is sociologically/psychologically fascinating to see cis straight men being forced to reckon with what the fuck even their sexual preferences are, what they actually entail, what the acceptable boundaries are in their mind, etc. etc.
Being mired in cultural and social norms that were decided for you before you even gained self awareness seems exhausting and tragic.
Noone yet in this thread addressing how "gooner" relates to any of this lol, or is it just being used as ornamental punctuation to end a series of somewhat related nouns
Unhinged car brain on display here
There was a thread asking about atomization of society and one symptom is shit like this, this comical evil can really only occur in an atomized society with such distance from others as human beings.
Anthropomorphizing little bugs and deciding not to kill them is valid (I do this) but deciding that those who do not are fascist is, imo, an unexamined, myopic and frankly cushy lib perspective
Edit: however if you torture bugs you are probably a pyschopath
The two options are she killed a dog or she determined it was politically opportunistic to claim she killed a dog. Wild.
The USA has the highest GDP and is a complete failure as a society for the majority of the people. The GDP produced at these "high levels" is the most nonsensical bullshit-jobs-derived "product" with no relationship whatsoever to contributing to a healthy, happy society.
Fuck this dork and people like him. True delusional scum.
This could be debated but... sci fi dystopia is meant to highlight the horror we are in right now, not necessarily some prediction of the future. The use of an exaggerated fictional future is meant to shake off the intense normalization of existing in modernity.
Wondering if this is because that meme that went around about how some (white) men think about Rome at least once a day. Probably felt he was missing out so vomited up this nonsense.
lol
Link to original thread?