Authentic Diversity 2015

* See also Levine Given the Boot
* See also $100 million for WHAT ??? 
* See also Death_Of_The_Author
* See also Game_Maker_Deception
* See also And_other_such_trash
* See also Story LEGOS
* See also BS
Authentic Diversity ( Aahhh, Riiiiight ... ) 
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Term from a 2015 interview Ken Levine, April 2015 
Levine was trying to sell himself ( looking for another 'gig'/touting a new project, after 2K Gave him the Boot ). Lots of talk, but remember that 'delivering' is the real trick.
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So Ryan Is Now 'Jewish' ??? An Amazing New Declaration/Revelation (after the fact) :
I don't buy that 2015 declaration of Levine's that Ryan now is 'Jewish'. That doesn't fit with anything from the previous games, or specific details mentioned in the Rapture Novel ( just from the family relative names being of Orthodox Christian Saints DEFINITELY would not be used by any Jew IN Russia, making it unlikely Shirley had a clue that Andrew Ryan was supposed to be a Jew ... ). It is more retroactive/revision for the sake of Levine trying to get a new job in 2015, and this 'new' "Authentic Diversity" crap he's spewed now to that end ( Attempting to 'stand out' by using 'socially relevancy' again -- Probably hoping they don't look too closely at Infinite BS and its Milqueytoast presentation of 'social issues').
I recall in John Shirley's Novel, the Ryan background story had a Ryan relative ( the one who Ryan as a child watches get murdered by Bolsheviks at a train station ) who had "carved a saber out of wood as a present for Andrei's tenth birthday". The Russians conscripted Jews as Cannon-Fodder in their wars, and used it as a method of secularizing them. NOTE - Officer Class people carried 'Swords'. So this seems a rather strange present for one Jew to give to another Jew. There in Russia, Jewish community authorities (politicians) were given the task of selecting Recruits to meet the Czar's quotas, and usually selected the 'non-useful Jews' -- avoiding the middle class Jews ( which Ryan's family now is alleged by Levine to be ), who could afford the bribes OR could cause the 'decider' severe problems.
Definitely a new confusing RetCon revelation -- From someone who is proven to be Reality-Challenged in his stories.
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 Duh, Ayn Rand was Jewish ... DERRRRP !!! ( Never mentioned that that was the reason ? )
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Ryan in BS1 : "My city will live. My city will thrive. And, when that day comes, we'll use your tombstone for paving tiles."
In BS1 they had to vilify Ryan to make him 'the evil enemy capitalist', so YOU were willingly to think its OK to go kill him as part of their 'Twist' plot ( as if you had any choice ). If I'm not mistaken, the writers are here invoking the Nazis who maliciously desecrated Jewish graves and cemeteries and actually paved roads with the removed tombstones ( There us a famous picture of this taken later ). IS THAT LIKELY something any Jew (allegedly Ryan) would EVER be saying ? The Writers were laying it on rather thick, but most probably NOT with any inkling about Ryan's recently ( 2015 Levine RETCON ) disclosed 'Jewish' background being Known to them.
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BioShock Infinite : The Boasts of Kenny Levine :
'See something you have never seen before' (paraphrased ...)
Reality : Degenerated sequel game elements, used with a badly contrived confused plot/story, in a huge cotton candy terrain full of implausible fantasy content. All hyped to the stars, and with paid gushing reviewers ( in the game mags ).
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Doing a Web Search (for "authentic diversity levine"), I turned up :
" In the article "Diversity Makes You Brighter", Sheen Levine, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, and David Stark, a professor at Columbia University, found that an authentically diverse community stimulates cognitive friction in and out of the classroom, which “prompts better [sharper] critical thinking.” "
No date on that article for any of it, so not sure who was plagiarizing who ...
THIS might 'NOT go over well' in the current stupidity of the newly defined 'White Micro-Aggression' left-think spewing 'Liberal' AcademicsLeft-think spewing 'Liberal' Academics -- *** Oxymoron ALERT *** - Marxists are NOT 'Liberal'. these days.
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 "Authentic Diversity" unfortunately wasn't the case in BioShock, as the selection of stereotypes was far from being 'diverse' : 
Dr. J. S. Steinman - M.D. Plastic Surgeon. The butcher of Medical Center ... More of Ken Levine's "Authentic Diversity" ???
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Brigid Tenenbaum - Scientist, Wunderkind, Jewish Concentration Camp survivor/collaborator
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Andrew Ryan, aka Russian immigrant Andrei Rianofski ( Actually specified by the Novel which Levine otherwise claimed wasn't Canon -- the detail not from the game itself ). Ryan, according to Levine in 2015, is now 'Jewish' - ( Retroactively declared by Levine LONG after the games came out ).
St Andrew (Andrei) - IS The ORTHODOX Patron Saint of Russia. John Shirley, who wrote the BioShock Novel in 2011, never seems to have heard of this new Jewish 'fact', and goes on in that authorized book to name several of Andrew Ryan's close relatives in Russia ( Belorussia was one of the founding 'Soviet Republics', and Andrei first grew up when the Czars were still in power ) who HAVE other Christian Saints' names as well - Something VERY VERY VERY unlikely to be allowed to have, or to be selected by Jews living in Russia.
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McDonagh - Engineer with a British accent ( 'Scotty' et al )
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Fontaine - Brooklyn/NYC accented gangster/crimo type 
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Atlas - Irish ( now a fisherman ? ) A Revolutionary ( IRA-ish in use of Bombs/Violence )
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Suchong - Oriental Heartless Doctor, Opium involvement ...
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Grace Holloway - The "Angry Black" - a stereotype Black Jazz Singer - ( Oops that's BS2 which Levine claims isn't Canon and NOT his project ).
A black who is a 'jazz' singer ...
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Sullivan - An Irish Cop
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Some Australian guy
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Sander Cohen - Broadway/NYC Producer type 'Personality' - eccentric ...
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White Patrician-type(upper-class) Old Ladies
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Ditzy White Bimbos
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Certainly Sounds like a bunch of stereotypes to me ...
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"I always found something sinister about Clowns" ( paraphrasing a Dr Who quote). Seriously, would YOU let this guy into your house to make a phone call ???? Perhaps In-future, to be more 'diverse', Ken Levine is going to have more Clowns in his games ???
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2015 AD, Ken Levine, to everyone's surprise, declared that Andrew Ryan had actually been of the Clownish persuasion. He was at that time seeking new gamemaking employment and was talking up a spiel about important game concepts he thought the game industry could improve upon. The writer of the Novel "BioShock : Rapture" was allegedly heard to say " Whaaaaaah ??? " on hearing this new pronouncement he never heard before.
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RETROACTIVE Diversity - Do It For BaSx ... Why Not ? :
Why wasn't Ryan Presto-Change-O'd into a Laplander then ? (( That woulda been mo 'diverse', No ? ))
Isn't having yet another 'Jewish' character getting rather the opposite of 'diverse' ??? ( Jews are just some fraction of a percent of the World's population, so just having Tenenbaum would still be demographic overkill ... as far as this 'Authentic Diversity' representation goes ).
See info about Ryan's family names which showed this was pretty much a 'new' thing long after the original character was defined and 'spelled out' in 2 games AND a Novel ( It is clear that John Shirley never "got the memo" about this "Ryan is a Jew" stuff ).
Actually, what this is all about is Ken Levine trolling/chum'ing (in 2015) for a new job, and 'talking' up something he thinks will get notice. Maybe next time him delivering a better game would be ALOT better than faking alot of flawed 'social relevancy' as a gimmick.
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 'Authentic Diversity' in Columbia ??? :
Funny how Levine used stereotypes characters so much in Infinite BS, too.
He could have shown all colors of racists and other real 'diversity' (*** Revelation to Some : 'White People' are not the ONLY people who can be "Racist" ***).
White Bearded : Levine's cliche 'Old' Comstock ( like a biblical prophet ) - When many preacher-ish types are quite young -- like the 19 year old Booker/Comstock actually was supposedly at the start. 
BTW - premature aging ( used in the story to get that 'old distinguished' look ) is a typical side effect of a deadly condition brought on by Radiation Poisoning, with Cancers of a dozen types, as well as an impaired immune system ( highly fatal ), etc ... Yet, we see Comstock alive and only aged a little more 20 years AFTER the 'Grabbing infant Elizabeth' scene took place. Rather strange that Comstock so early looked old like that (and lasted) for another 20 years after exposure ?
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So NOW Andrew Ryan is Supposed to Be a Cutout American Jew Who Rejects 'Judaism' in Every Way ? 
According to Levine - mentioned years after the game came out : Ryan is NOW a 'jew in name only' - Generic enough to not have a hint of it in ANY of the Games, nor for the Novel's writer ( published in 2011 with close consulting of its content ) to have it included in the far greater Ryan background details. SO This announcement used supposedly to give diversity and authenticity to a computer game which mostly deals with mass-slaughtering things ? Noteworthy also is : The majority of evil/maniacal characters in the game seem to be a 'Jewish'. This is not overly complementary, and might seem a bit more like over-compensation ?
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"Authentic Diversity" - That Levine interview was in 2015 ? Seems a bit RetCon this new identity for Ryan. Was there a clue anywhere about this in the BioShock games or in the Novel ( John Shirley might have elaborated upon it ) indicating this new Jewish nature of Andrew Ryan ?
Consider : "Andrew" (Andrei) is the patron saint of Russia (Orthodox Christian Russia) and the Ukraine. Is that really a name a Jew would take or be allowed to take within Russian domination ? In the Novel, Ryan's father's name is 'Pyotr' ( "Peter" is another very important Christian saint ) and a relative is "Demitri" ( ? St. Demetrios -- another Orthodox Christian Saint ). Perhaps Novel author Shirley didn't get the Memo ? ( Or rather, there was no such understanding existing at the time the Novel was written ).
Seems a bit fishy. Levine's recent interviews mention some new game he's trying to organize ( and something about "Narrative Legos" (see below) - which sounds like variable/Player-shapeable story plots as a game mechanism to facilitate replayability ). In any case, it sounds to me more like Levine is trying to be 'trendy' for the Game Industry - THAT really being behind all his loudly retro-mentioned 'Diversity' stuff. 
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A Fake ...
Hey Levine, where were the Eastern Europeans in Columbia ?? Huge immigration waves happening around Columbia's time.
Not there ? Howzat ? OH, most were Jews ? And then you would have had to deal with 'antisemitism' ? (( But But But, there's that defaced 'jewish' tailor machine to stand in for the RAMPANT anti-semetism in the 'evil' USA at that time. 'SORRY, Cliche History' ain't "History" Levine. Selective Cowardice ... THAT might be the byword here .... )) 
NO Tattoo'd numbers on Finks Worker 'Cattle' ( and it being pointed out in the game ) ? Maybe THAT would be too edgy - the kind of 'edginess' that Levine implied for the game ? Why not ? Columbia was far more a Police State than Nazi Germany was.
A 'Tailor' machine minus the Sign label that would overtly show it was the cliche Jewish tailor (skullcap).
Levine seems fine with "authentic diversity", EXCEPT ...
NOTE - This machine was located inside the "Fraternal Order of the Raven" Building, - a center for racist social control in Columbia. Did the gamemakers have no realization how fricken dim THIS scene is ????
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SAME TIME : NEW LEVINE PROJECTS
 "Narrative LEGOs" - Levine's Later Thing :
Levine : "Linear is hard to do" (( "Linear" type story construction constructing multi-path stories. I assume this is talking about doing the same thing using conventional all custom scripting. )) - THAT statement implying this LEGOs thing is somehow gonna be easier - BUT he perhaps doesn't have 'realization' of what multi-pathing type plots really entails ). 
Perhaps He Doesn't Realize Those REAL 'LEGOs' Toy Blocks are NOW Unimaginative BS these days ??? : NOW its done with too many 'unique' specialized pieces in most of the sold 'LEGOs' sets -- In order to construct one specific (Cliche/Iconic/Popular) Legos object ( and so making it VERY easy for the User to make that one desired exactly-THEMED custom object ). Instead of (as ORIGINALLY) the LEGOs User Actually having 'To Think' while trying to build up even simple shapes out of the old-style mono-shaped brick-like Lego Blocks ( thousands of LEGO blocks are required to replicate really complex-shaped things ).
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Levine has now coined a term "Passions" - which he defines as NPC motivations ( and Player restrictions ). Seriously, game designers have been talking about such ideas for decades - Why does Levine have to try to make believe this concept is anything 'new' ?????? It will be interesting to see if he can implement such a system beyond what other games have already done ( ie- Red Dead Redemption 2, 2018, which has a simplistic implementation for the games NPCs ).
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TWIST !!! Daisy Fitzroy was Elizabeth's Mother !!! 
How deliciously"deliciously" - Sander Cohen's terminology trendy and controversial and a massive issue for evil racist 1900 America ( a 'win win win' for pretentious writing ).
No Sorry - NOT.
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How About Authentic and Diverse Racism ? :
This was about the extent of Anti-Semitism in Infinite's Columbia - during an age of very high Anti-Semitism in America.
When he had the chance to be truly historic .... Seems again : Levine IS mostly just 'Talk'.
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One bit of Very Real and Common Racism that Levine seems to have avoided.
Very Indirect, Meager and Milquetoast.
(( BTW, Why the hell would this thing even be on Columbia ??? ))
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Amazing the 'Authentic Diversity' : Hardly even a mention of Chinese people in Rapture - mere stereotype Restaurant
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