>devs had to invent a deus ex machina magic slugs to prove him wrong.
>Tons of RL island nations that are nearly close to his economic system
He was right.
Devs had to invent a deus ex machina magic slugs to prove him wrong
Gavin James
Easton Price
Ryan's ideals fail because he willingly forfeits them as soon as Fontaine cuts into his market share, it actually has little to do with the "magic slugs" and more so with Ryan revealing himself to be a hypocrite. It's easy to defend the great chain when it's being pulled in your favor.
Libertarianism itself is a terribly flawed ideology, as evidenced by the fact that not a single libertarian society has been successful throughout the entire course of human history.
Jayden Price
Its never been tried
Joseph Bennett
Did the same with the company megacorp/Vox populi in infinite
Luis Rogers
to add to this, Ryan wanted to "free" people/intellectuals/laborers from the great chain, but didn't factor in the essentially indentured servants he had to swindle to build his dreampark in the first place.
Fontaine was able to run a populist 5th column because Ryan didn't really care about the unwashed masses to begin with. He hated daddy government so much but ironically turned into exactly to what he despised most.
Simple, but effective writing. Still have no idea how we go from this to DUDE TIMELINES in a matter of two games. Even Lamb was a natural progression that had some good writing.
Ian Sanders
It has though, Sealand and Liberland are both libertarian "countries", there's a reason you've never heard of either.
Easton Brooks
I dunno, it seems a bit convenient that this supposed 20th century genius of a man gets blindsided by populist uprising in a city like this. I guess he was always supposed to be a caricature of an autistic libertarian but surely he would've figured out he was playing with fire by cultivating a toilet cleaner class
Dylan Foster
well that was his fatal flaw. He believed in his ideas too much, he seriously expected the potato-niggers to worship the all-mighty dollar exactly as much as he did.
also his bad habit of fucking whores.
Asher Price
>free trade of guns
>free trade of drugs
>increase of poverty
>city full of geniuses that think they deserve better
How could this happen?
Thomas King
>Ryan's ideals fail because he willingly forfeits them as soon as Fontaine cuts into his market share
Ayn Rand IRL also abandoned her own ideals the instant they were used against her (namely, when her lover ditched her for a younger woman with higher value).
Gavin Sanchez
>Still have no idea how we go from this to DUDE TIMELINES in a matter of two games
They didn't have the balls to write a racist as charismatic and convincing as Andrew Ryan, so the plot of Infinity had to dive headfirst into horseshit.
Lucas Campbell
That's the point, Libertarian ideals are doomed to fail because they fail to take into account the working class, it's not Ryan's fault, it's the ideology's fault.
Hudson Bennett
Real slavery has never been tried
Chase Wright
My favorite fact about Ayn Rand is that towards the end of her life she was on social security benefits, she, like Ryan, betrayed her own ideology.
Levi Cook
>this kills the lol-tarian
Hunter Sullivan
A book?
Levi Williams
>believes in liberating people from higher authority
>doesn't believe in liberating people from his authority
funky
A book Ryan banned, among other things, which allowed for smuggling rings to form.
Anthony Rivera
I hate Ayn Rand's retarded philosophy as much as the next guy, but taking government gibs when they're available to you is pretty in line with objectivism
Caleb Edwards
Something you can believe in other than Ryan. He saw that as a threat for some reason.
Tyler Peterson
pssht nothing personnel kid
Dominic Allen
Was Adam not just a metaphor for any severely addictive drug? How would a completley free market survive when the likes of heroin and meth are introduced?
Gabriel Brooks
It's not that he wanted to be the people's God, it's that he wanted the people to believe in themselves.
James Lewis
To be fair, a deus ex machina was the only thing that allowed his city to exist in the first place. Even with that museum in 2 "explaining" how it was built, the timeline still just doesn't make sense. Not to mention the fact that it never explains where food or really any resource other than oxygen and fish come from.
Aaron Powell
Sparta?
Daniel Hall
Like portugal now?
Wyatt Gutierrez
you can buy meth otc in portugal?
Carson Wright
Closer to Brazil, I'd say.
Ian Wright
Tell me a story, user
Hudson Fisher
Howdy
Bentley Murphy
Maybe not otc, but they legalized ALL drugs
Kayden Howard
Seriously, it's fucking irritating that it's almost impossible to make a likable villain without outrage faggots cry bullying about it. I seriously can't think of a villain from a western game that was likable and felt actually like a character.
Last tragic villain that was actually well written I can think of is Emet Selch
Dominic Sanchez
You're not supposed to like the villian... messes up the hero villian dynamic. You get better results when you love one and hate the other. If your ok about the protagonist and find the antagonist likable it diminishes the payoff of the climax
Henry Wilson
I like seeing two characters fight tooth and nail for what they believe in, and the closer the writers get to make the audience understand both sides the better.
It makes the characters feel so much more alive because you can understand their motivation.