This is a universe with faster than light travel and near infinite resources. There’s a homeless shelter in one of the major cities. I helped them out. Why the fuck is there a homeless shelter in a universe with FTL and near infinite resources?

I’m starting to think Fallout under Bethesda isn’t a satire and their writers are just incapable of imagining anything beyond capitalism.

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That was laughably present in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. It didn’t just whitewash racism and make the new racism discrimination against the poor smol bean augmented people (yes Human Revolution showed people coerced into rented-out augmentation but didn’t explore it much) but that discrimination wasn’t even delivered to the player in any meaningful way.

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Yeah, I watched hbomb’s excessively-long video essay on that game and that’s probably the most memorable part, especially the coercion aspect getting mentioned and then glossed over.

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Ross Scott of Accursed Farms did an impressive takedown but it focused on the ever-diluted political discourse in Deus Ex sequels, from the deep complex richness in the first game to, as he put it, CYBORGS CYBORGS CYBORGS in the later games.

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