Playing To Ignorance

* See also Infinite_BS_Was_Not_Really_A_BioShock_Game
* See also Quantum_Hokem Faux Science
* See also The_plot_says_so -- Cuz -- Vague
* See also Players_FORCE_FED_-_Ryan_The_Villain
* See also War Measures
* See also Protectors_Too_Soon
* See also Flying_Battleship-Yeah_Right >> Real Battleships
* See also Fink_The_Technological_Caveman + NO_Autopilots_In_Columbia
* See also Marketing_Hype
* See also Authoritative Narration
 "Foolin the Rubes" 
 LET THE PLAYER BEWARE 
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A Shooter Game Dystopia
Strained/Broken Plausibility is easier than doing more/better work
Science/Tech Issues in Rapture ( Deep Sea Environment, Genetics )
An Earlier Society the Player is not familiar with
Twist Manipulation of Player 
For Infinite BS - It Was Ignorance IN SPADES
Burial At Sea - Retrofitting and Shoehorning it into Our Rapture
Touchie Feelie Alien to that Era Modernisms are Over-Applied 
Public Education hardly teaches Objective Reasoning, and now teaches little Real History - leads to game companies pandering to ignorance
Rushed Chaotic Mismanaged Game Development ? - There Is No Excuse
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In the Ryan Amusements Public Displays ( in BS2) -- Ryan on his ship Olympian, pointing to the spot that Rapture will be built ( as if he had just found it ) - unlikely to have happened that way - done more with teams of surveyors/researchers trying to find the appropriate spot. This display is meant to Create a Symbolic Myth.
Artistry of Heroism ... "Doing The Impossible" 
It is just like the scene with the Diver Construction Workers being portrayed in typical Diving Suits way below depths where that kind of suit worked - those operate at 150 ft depth maximum ( and no ADAM yet for later pressure-resistive divers to use ) ... It can hardly be taken verbatim, but instead as a symbolic story for the daring/dangerous effort of building of the New City.
Being a more a Commemoration, at least this can be expected. It is a somewhat different from the biased opinions expressed in the many coincidental Audio Diaries, which likewise can be mistaken for 'Fact'.
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Players May Not Realize That Games Often Don't Have Authoritative Narration : 
There is NO Authoritative Narration in the BioShock games.
Bias in Testimonials ( Audio Diaries, Radio Messages, Talking NPCs )
Note that What is said in the Recording does not have to be Fact.
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The Columbia Plantation - Comstock's New Confederacy With its 'god' :
That's effectively what it was - Reactionary Southerner Thinking ( but with too many other ideas/themes run-together with it into a huge stupid mess ).
I don't think Kenny L was brave enough to have Columbia plastered with Confederate Flags, or to take the portrayed Racism to where it would have gone/been-like. The obvious Cultism overrides all the writer's 'American' pretenses ( as does the isolation required of the game 'Utopia' dystopia ). The game was kinda like a rather cowardly "Social-Ills Lite" - It made lotsa noise ( and had lotsa self-congratulating ), but missed on its actual delivery ( 'weak pandering controversy' to sell a computer game is a FAIL ).
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WTF is a Telephone Pole Doing Out Here ???
Someone "Just Figured" ....
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A fanciful but absurd 'vision'.
A single US Airforce jet with a single Nuclear-tipped Air-to-Air missile (available from the 1950s) would END any such Columbia attacking in OUR Era.
It is that simple. 
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== WHOLE LOTTA FAIL IN THIS GAME ==
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