The Ideology of Apocalypse (feat. Mad Max, Fallout New Vegas, Gurren Lagann & more)

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  @thefollowingisatest4579 · 6 years ago

  But if everyone isn&apos;t deep down an evil monster, how do I justify my own bad behavior?<br><br>Oh..wait...

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  @fefeman2856 · 6 years ago

  Iirc, &quot;Lord of the Flies&quot; wasn&apos;t exactly about human nature, but about the behavior of childrens in boarding schools. And how, unlike what &quot;Coral Island&quot; said, those kids who were taught very colonialist and violent values would fight among themselves.

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  @Donnerbalken28 · 6 years ago

  &quot;Let&apos;s talk about Hegel&quot;<br><br><b>continues to crawl into the fetal position and mumble something about dialectics</b>

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  @PathologicalTruther · 5 years ago

  Personally I always felt like Caesar knew full well that what he was practicing wasn&apos;t /really/ Hegelian Dialectics and that he was just trying to manipulate you into agreeing with/supporting him by prattling on about something smart and intellectual sounding in the way dictators are somewhat prone to doing.

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  @aramilrogue · 6 years ago

  &quot;When war is between USA fanboys, Ancient Rome fanboys, and Elon Musk, I understand where they&apos;re coming from&quot; is the best line. My ribs are still fucking hurting

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  @RobotProductions09 · 6 years ago

  &quot;the lord of the flies&quot; was a subversion of &quot;the coral island&quot;, an imperialist (and racist) story. lotf was written more to expose the arrogance of the british high class as a destructive behavior. sorry it&apos;s just irritating to me that no one seems to add this context when they want to criticize lotf; i think it&apos;s important to mention that although it was about &quot;human nature&quot; it was more specifically about imperialist behavior. anyway have a good day jack

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  @Meiliina · 6 years ago

  I love the juxtaposition on post-apocalyptic larps; first we build a town together and help each other get dressed in our best wastelander outfits, then shoot and rob each other as no one can trust each other, while still trying to make the best game for everyone.

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  @mellawrence1119 · 6 years ago

  &quot;Order and chaos have always been a false dichotomy, asserted to demonize the &apos;bad violence&apos; and authorize the &apos;good violence.&quot; absolutely bangs as a quote and I&apos;ve never seen it expressed so well.

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  @Tordre · 6 years ago

  I feel like your sponsor was a dare, either someone was dared in their marketing department, or Big Joel dared you to take the offer, or both.

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  @tenfivesmiths7802 · 6 years ago

  So. I come from a fallen socialist country. When I was a kid we read this story for class called &quot;the train in the snow&quot; it details a train full of school children getting stuck in a massive blizzard on their way to a school trip and everybody down to their abilities pitching in to help this coal powered train to get to it&apos;s destination. it&apos;s grueling but the kids pull through. For a lot if us, working together to make something impossible happen is second nature. &nbsp;Mind you,I was about 8-9 when &nbsp;this lesson took place.

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  @MinutelyHipster · 6 years ago

  Aiming for the 10 minute mark to get that as revenue I see.

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  @dyer4677 · 6 years ago (edited)

  When you mentioned Borderlands it actually made me think for a second. While Pandora mimics the aesthetics of the traditional apocalypse the reasoning for why the world is so violent and unhinged is actually contrary to the Hobbesian idea that people are inherently selfish and savage. <br><br>Pandora is a lawless wasteland BECAUSE of authorities like the Mega Corporations of Dahl, Hyperion, and Atlas. That their short sited profit seeking would cause them to abandon countless civilians, soldiers, employee&apos;s, and enforced laborers many of which were former criminals or mentally unwell the moment their venture became unprofitable. That these people would not only have to fend for themselves against not just the violent nature of the planet but the massive power vacuums, abundance of weapons, and toxic material that made the planet the perfect tinder box of a shit show. Not to mention how the super corps would continue to profit from the violence on Pandora by feeding the population more and more weapons but invasions such as the one from Atlas in BL1 and Hyperion in BL2 would only kick the hornets nest demolishing any manner of stability the planet had developed.<br><br>Even in BL3 it&apos;s mentioned that the Cult of the Vault, the main bandit faction you fight against, draws it&apos;s numbers from the countless broken worlds like Pandora across the galaxy. That the Mega Corps are solely responsible for the creation of this toxic environment and as the game itself puts it, countless &quot;human wreckage&quot; that are the mentally unwell, physically scarred, and abandoned populations of bandits in the universe.<br><br>It always bothered me how Borderlands while being known best as the &quot;funny meme looter game&quot; it has the potential for some really good themes but it just never goes far enough to reach it and it&apos;s frustrating to no end but hey I guess I&apos;d rather have a hypothetically interesting story at the end of the day.

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