Post: #1

You guys probably don't like neither play games, but this one is worth checking out through this video.

Deus Ex (2000), since is the best game I played in my life, i gotta tell you that 10 years ago when i was playing it, I had no idea what they talked about, I didnt even knew english at the time, just wanted to kill and feel the adrenaline.

Two days ago I've decided to download it again to feel the nostalgia, and i got surprised about how it perfectly fits in nowadays world and in my life as a whole.

That also makes me think that any form of art that challenges the system today, has so much less chance to be successful like it was two decades ago.

Post: #2

For me, the most "ahead of its time" spooky predictable piece of fiction will always be Metal Gear Solid 2

Post: #3

I've been meaning to play this game. I did not get into PC gaming until I got to high school, as I spent a large part of my childhood in the world of console gaming. Dues Ex follows the same philosophy that the Matrix followed, or a similar one anyway, where conformity is praised to make humans into unified resources rather than letting them be human to begin with. And the whole unifying everyone with no language or culture hit me hard, considering that is exactly the plan being carried out right now, especially in the EU.

Post: #4

DX is an absolute classic which I only played some 14 years after its release. I think they just threw together all the conspiracy theories that were prevalent pre-9/11 and stirred thoroughly, but there is some great prescience there, including the role of China and the fate of Europe. I do find it amusing that in DX, the world government and its lackeys are hostile to immigrants when in fact it turned out to be quite the opposite. Also, insofar as there are real-life factions of the elite that want UN world government, they don't seem to be progressing very much.

Post: #5

The most important aspect of it was that they correctly predicted how AI and wireless networking/transhumanism would enable centralized control on a level the public level didn't even comprehend at the time.

Post: #6

(04-16-2019 09:04 AM)wwsd Wrote:  DX is an absolute classic which I only played some 14 years after its release. I think they just threw together all the conspiracy theories that were prevalent pre-9/11 and stirred thoroughly, but there is some great prescience there, including the role of China and the fate of Europe. I do find it amusing that in DX, the world government and its lackeys are hostile to immigrants when in fact it turned out to be quite the opposite. Also, insofar as there are real-life factions of the elite that want UN world government, they don't seem to be progressing very much.

I would associate that UN world government with nowadays' globalization.

Quote:The most important aspect of it was that they correctly predicted how AI and wireless networking/transhumanism would enable centralized control on a level the public level didn't even comprehend at the time.

Havent seen things through this perspective. Nice point.

Post: #7

You can probably tell that I'm a huge fan of Deus Ex myself. The entire series has appealed to me, from the first game in 2000, to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided in 2016. The themes of corporations and government working hand-in-hand, automation of nearly every aspect of society as a whole as we march closer to a Brave New World... fascinating and frightening at the same time. The MGS2 codec is also a great clip, probably one of the most profound experience I've ever had with a video game.

For those of you who haven't played Deus Ex, this is definitely a spoiler, but you end up ditching UNATCO, the government bureaucracy that you used to be a nanotech killing machine for, and join the supposed NSF "terrorists" once the bigger picture becomes clear to you, and you meet some of the most powerful people in the Deus Ex world working behind the scenes. Huge twist for me when I first played, but I thought about what I would have done in that situation as well. Is ignorance really bliss? Of course it is. I don't know if the Illuminati exists in real life as it does in the Deus Ex game, but we definitely have something similar to it.

There's the 1%, sure, the wealthy class. But then there's the 0.1%, pulling the strings. Those are the people I'm most afraid of. Money is obsolete to them at that point. A "black card" is just a metal rectangle. Unbridled power becomes their new currency.

But is there anything we can do with this knowledge? I'm from a lower-middle class family, and we don't do any sort of entertainment. My parents go to work and come back home to make dinner, and start again the next day. So far, I've just been heading down the same path. Go to school, get a job, get a house, hopefully have some kids, then you die. Sounds swell to me. I think you really do hit a blackpilled state after a while, or at least that new Honkler clown meme mentality comes into effect.