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[edmoorester at gmail.com]

video from a game set to release next year "Bioshock Infinite" recalls the  
Chums of Chance.

My nephew plays these games but I just like learning about the stories.

Bioshock Infinite Debut Trailer [HD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WDQ4FhslSk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08/13/the-bioshock-infinite-ken-levine-interview/

RPS: Weaponizing a World Fair is a wonderful perverse idea. It caused me to  
start thinking about the period from different angles… 1908, I think, was  
the Futurist manifesto [It was 1909 - Ed]. And Anarchism as an enemy turned  
up in a lot of posters, which makes me think that Emma Goldman was that  
period too. How much was that influences there?

Ken Levine: This is much more central to European culture, because the  
world was approaching a catastrophe. And that catastrophe was really about  
the monarchies coming to an end. We're still feeling the repercussions from  
that. Everything politically comes out of that. Everything in the world,  
from WW2 to the collapse of the Soviet Union to the Taliban comes out of  
that stuff. But also at that time you had movements like internationalism.  
The notion that you had more in common with the factory worker in that  
country than you do with the rich guy in your own. And think how  
challenging that was to the powers that be at that time. But you also have  
these strong nationalistic movements at this time. And I think there's some  
themes today which you see around the world… it's not as if nationalism is  
anything new. It's a very effective form of thought.


Apparently the predecessor Bioshock took a desolate, burnt out community  
that had exhausted itself thru it's Ayn Rand morality with multiple Ayn  
Rand book allusions from Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.. .

ed
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