Magic Fantasy

* See also Wave_of_the_hand
* See also 'Cuz' ( The justification for so much the Game Writers apparently use )
* See also Quantum_TimeTravel
* See also Real World
* See also Quantum_Particles_Can_Do_Anything -- Quantum Floatyshit(tm) FAUX-SCIENCE
* See also Faux-History - Faux-Economy - Levines_Faux-Religion - Faux-Technology
* See also Fever_Dream_Hallucination ( a time honored traditional story mechanism )
* See also Science Running on 'Derpium'
* See also If_BioShock_Rapture_Had_Been_Fantasy ( Excusing the Genetic stuff - most of rest was 'near era' )
==" No "Cuz" Nor That Magic BS, Just Have Real Storytelling " - AS== 
== Infinite : 'Huged and Kludged' ==
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"Magic" - The power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.
A story with Societal Philosophy allegedly relating to the Real World or Real History cannot be Taken Seriously when you figuratively 'Ride Around on Unicorns'. 
BS1/BS2 had some issues, but those were not THAT significant when the setting was largely a societal recreation mostly taken from the Pre and Post-WW2 Surface World.
Infinite BS, with its fake society/religion/science/history/technology/laws-of-physics, departed far down the spectrum into poor (rabbit hole) Magical Fantasy. Most of the 'quantum' effects seen in the Infinite BS game ( time travel, portals/traveling between dimensions, all-seeing-god-conversions ) have nothing AT ALL to do with the actualities of real Quantum Physics.
Bio Shock -- BIOlogical technical changes had brought severe (SHOCK) resulting in society breaking/destroying disruptions.
That Misused Quantum Physics in Infinite BS is NOT "Bio", so the whole reuse of the name was merely to hijack the original successful branding to achieve Sales. It also was NOT the cause (in the story) of having People be very shitty to each other (Dystopia) -- It rather being allowed/enabled by Columbia's isolation ( via quantum Floatyshit(tm) ), making possible its bizarre Un-American society's independent existence and formation into a Cult Police State. In other stories you can have Isolation with no need to resort to Super-Science/Magic.
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NOT Holding to a Sci-Fi Setting :
BS:Infinite (Infinite BS) became a complete Fantasy game, with alot of BS to try to 'make believe' it was somehow related to BioShock.
Why have the 'historical setting' ( other than being able to copy styles the Game Developers weren't capable of creating on their own - cheap nostalgic elements somewhat recognizable for people largely ignorant of the era ).  And as far as History goes : It is all some trendy Politically Correct make-believe, which as shown had very little resemblance to 1893-1912 American reality.  Columbia is a floating city of "Strawmen" Alleged Americans ( Such that we should have had The Scarecrow from "The Wizard of Oz" running the place ... ).
The attempts to be a 'BioShock' game ( brand name milked for sales potential ) led to them pathetically recreated old game elements to justify their claiming 'It is the same thing' -- Resulting in a poor belabored copy of the previous games.
Introduction of the magic 'Quantum Physics' and Multiverse BS sent it further off into a La-La-Land where Physical Laws no longer apply, and so any logic/reason/fact could be left at the door ( gets in the way of the 'neat' special effects and simple console game mechanics ).   Now nothing need really be explained ( the Perfect Crutch of the amateur fiction writer ), and any Story matters not - as 'all possibilities exist', and nothing/everything really happened, and emotional involvement by the Player can be 'jerked around' at a whim.
It has a plot that would be rejected by a desperate 1950s-era third-rate pulp Sci-Fi and Fantasy magazine.
Seriously, it would have made ALOT more sense as simply a Fever Dream DeWitt has after drinking some bad patent toothache medicine --- OR some twisted nightmare some deranged Splicer had in Rapture.
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I Andrew Ryan Reject This !!!   Is not the Player due a Proper Sci-Fi game paid for by the $60 Sweat of their Brow ???   The Game Companies say : " NOOOOOOOOO ! The Players will eat whatever Rubbish we set before them !! " 
"SO I left the Parasites and created "BioShock: Rapture Reborn" , a MMORPG place where the Player will FEEL he is in a real World Under the Sea, and the Players IMAGINATION will Pull The Great Chain !!! ..... "'''
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In Rapture Things Were Supposed to Largely Work As You Would Expect :
Most of People's lives would be much the same as on the (urban) Surface, and most substitutions of newer Technology would be used the same way ( as was happening above-water in America ). It was somewhat cramped and sometimes wet ( being a city under the sea ), but that wasn't caused by that 'Bio' ADAM stuff ( The City was built well before ADAM was even discovered ). The Philosophy was not too far off from Surface American's Society ( Socialism still hadn't invaded every part of people's lives, yet ).
THEN the '"Bio" 'Shock' happened which stressed Rapture Society's stability to the breaking point.
Contrast : In Columbia with Quantumz 'magic' ( And other Faux-Science the game writers concocted ) things are ALREADY floating around up there in the sky, but the 'Shock' ('Bio' or otherwise) isn't there for the inhabitants. They seem to be going about their normal everyday racist business. Tears appear here and there, but -- "NOT THAT SHOCKING" apparently to the people lounging on the Beach. New tunes are heardNew Tunes : Including "Jazz", which was generally condemned by Reactionary types for a long time., and some mundane devices ( many with some unexplained blue glowey orb ) seem to get used - normally, but the Player-used Vigorz/Gearz/Saltz"Zhalts" as Tenenbaum would say ...: do NOT seem to be much used by inhabitants there. Vehicles 'float' and transport stuff, but they might as well be on the ground for it making much of a difference.
Oh yes, Booker shows up and starts Slaughtering people in large firefights, but weren't the Anarchist Vox already doing that ? Did THEY happen because of Quantumz ?? Remember - Anarchists started blowing things up/murdering people down below around that time in History too. So NO. So, where's the "Shock" ?
And then Booker and Elizabeth jump off to some other more convenient dimension/universe (several times). Eventually they reach a Columbia where there is an uprising by the lower classes, overcoming the massive Police State apparatus seen earlier. By the game's end, after much more violence, everything is magically unmade. In the end there is NO 'Shock' - because everything is now gone (( until the DLC contradictorily has it back again )).
The Infinite plot has the 'World Changing' aspect be outside of the Players activities.
It might have been imaginative to have the game show 'future events' with some real 'SHOCK' -- In a reveal that the World had long previously seized upon the new Quantumz technology and had far surpassed Columbia -- and NOW had finally come to 'Clean Up' the disagreeable set of people inhabiting that repugnant flying den of Slavery and Tyrants.
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Infinite BS Magic Potions and Magic Objects :
"Vigors" are the wondrous magic potions of Columbia, granting extraordinary abilities to their users. They are powered by "Salts" which can be found in phials in their raw form or by consuming special foods."
Oooh 'Salts' ( EVE equivalent you thing ?? ). So if I eat that big salt encrusted pretzel I can leap about like the Hulk ?? So, what powers the "Gearz" ? Vaporous emanations from Elizabeth's godhood collected by the 'Siphon' ? Quantumz Juice ? Seepage from between Realities ? Memories ?
THIS ALL Seems very strange, but EVE was never explained either ( But then, Bio-Chemistry IS at least something 'Real', and 'nutrients' ARE part of a real physiological process ).
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Shaft! (Authentic Diversity) - "Quantum This, You Mutha !!!" :
So if you can have 'Quantum Particles', then why not "Quantum Chains" and "Quantum Strings" ?? ( That might explain how that Skyline thing works and is held up - No ? ) Then "Quantum Sweaters" - the Gearz) for Booker to wear as 'Gear' ( Hey, yeah, a whole "Quantum" textile industry then too - done by Fink Manufacturing of course ... )
Once you delve into Fantasy, then the 'lid is off', and you have Carte Blanche to do whatever you feel like, without resorting to knowledge/fact of "How real things work", and you can be 'lazy', and just make shit up as you go along to justify any old stupid special effect or slaughter-house game action you can think of.
They hardly even touched on SO MANY possibilities, which real imagination might have opened up.
But remember, the game IS ALL ABOUT 'Social Issues' and how "evil" Americans were back in the early 1900 ... -- THERE CERTAINLY IS A GOOD REASON I CALL THIS GAME "INFINITE BS".
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Indulging Fantasy :
If there is going to be Fantasy in BioShock's Rapture, it should be part of the delusional Roleplaying of the various denizens ( including the 'other side' of events from the past ).   It still doesn't make sense for a Little Sister to "Fire her Lollipop gun at the crazed Hello Kitty in Power-armor, while Purple Unicorns play Poker at a table, and Harry Potter looks on disapprovingly while Cleaning a Toilet".  Copyrights and anachronisms DO 'get in the way'.   Unofficial Assets created and distributed outside the game no doubt will contain such things and worse.
Dreamscape Fantasy is far easier to create than something Realistic. 
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Vigors : Magic Potions:
Originally not explained to be ADAM-based in Infinite BS.
Potionz.jpg|Various Buffs Hitpoints, Damage absorption, Mana
ShockJockjey.jpg|ABsud Bottles
RefiningYeah.jpg|Refined from "Cattle" Blood ????
ItsGreen.jpg|Vigors were ground up magic crystals extracted from Siphon juice ?
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Sure makes World-building a whole lot easier - No need to do research or consideration about how things really work.
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The Luteces Obviously had strange magic powers.
So Suchong flipped some fingernail clippings through a Tear in Burial At Sea
Fink and His brother had Dandruff blow into the countless Tears they Looked Through
Comstock shed skin cells when HE went to get Baby Anna/Elizabeth.
ALL COULD THUS BE DIMENSION GODS
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