BioShock/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

**** It's definitely this. Ayn Rand was EXTREMELY proscriptive about the music, architecture and fashion that was ideologically correct for Objectivists.

* On the same topic, why are they using Tommy guns and not WWII era submachineguns?

** Good point, though. I think the only real-world weapon we ever see in the series is the Luger Sofia Lamb gives Delta to kill himself with in ''Bioshock 2''. I think that the idea was that Ryan, believing Rapture to be a utopia and all that, prohibited the import of firearms, leaving the populace to go all DIY once society began to break down. They're not really Thompsons so much as they are cobbled-together submachine guns that have a drum magazine.

* In the good ending, where Jack escapes Rapture with all the Little sisters he's saved and lives happily ever after? Well, I doubt it would be that simple. For one thing, when he gets to America/Britain/wherever, he has no passport, no documentation of any kind, and not nearly enough money to get by, much less support his new family. When he tries to register the little sisters for school, the authorities are going to have a lot of questions about why exactly is it that [[Pedo Hunt|a single man is living with 20 some little girls that can't possibly be all his daughters.]] This isn't even taking into account the medical and psychological issues. Jack just learned that his whole life was a fake, the little girls where mind raped at a young age, and both them and their new "father" are bound to have PTSD from all the shit they've seen. Medically what are the long term side effects of carrying a parasitic sea slug in your body turning you into an ADAM factory? Or how about Jack's little Big Daddy voice box operation? Or now that he no longer has a steady supply of ADAM, but has still been spliced, won't he start to devolve like everyone else in Rapture did when they ran out of ADAM?

** And how did he manage to contact and invite thousands of people to Rapture and remain discrete?

*** Do you have any idea how many people just up and ''disappear'' every year? Most of them do that because they don't ''want'' to be found, and this is happening just after World War II and before the establishment of anything really resembling a network to find missing persons. Postwar chaos is the perfect time to vanish in; thousands of people simply disappearing across the globe following some thirty million dying in a massive war isn't going to raise any eyebrows.

* How do the people who communicate with you know where you are or what you're doing? For example, Atlas knowing the moment you've killed Dr. Steinman ("You all right? It was time somebody took care of that sick bastard"), or Tenenbaum knowing when you've saved a Little Sister or when you've seen a bottle of Lot 192 ("Now hold there for a moment ... there is that drug again. Did we not see that at Fontaine's flat?"). Unless the radio has a camera for some reason, I don't think there's any other explanation.

** In some cases, they can ''hear'' what you're doing. When Atlas hears you struggle your way through Medical, only to have a crazy guy shout how ugly you are and open up with a Tommy gun, he can reasonably assume that you've just found Steinman. Since he hears Steinman go down in the ensuing gunfight, he knows you've just killed him.