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* I wondered why Andrew Ryan ordered you to kill him, since that's exactly what you were going to do regardless. Then I realized what his last words actually meant. "A man chooses... a slave obeys." He is choosing, and you are obeying.

* Ok we got outself a Fridge-Coaster here. First starting with Brilliance, The Reason why Sophia lamb simply never fixed Rapture, she had the time an resources, she didn't want Rapture she wanted the collective genius of the people. All she needs to do is stablize Rapture and make sure nobody leaves. Which leads to logic, the population knowlege would surely have degraded due to twenty years of drug abuse. Furthermore after twenty years what ever inventions they had created are ether obsolete as Technology Marches On or were only effective in Rapture, i.e gene banks and Steam Powered Turrets. However the Brilliance comes back we realize that the plan doesn't work, Gil Alexander the first subject is completely insane and the Adam she had fed to Eleanor, she ignores. In other words everything Sophia Lamb is doing is pointless, which led to Fridge horror.

** I was initially turned off by Fontaine's [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]] final form. It wasn't until I thought about it some more that I realized that Fontaine's final form bore a striking resemblance to the statues that hold up Andrew Ryan's propaganda throughout Rapture.

** The statues are of a character from the [[Greek Mythology]]: the Titan who holds the heavens on his back. His name? Atlas.

** So are you postulating that Suchong ''is'' his family name and the conventions of the day compelled him to write it the Western way, or that everyone assumed that it was because he didn't?

* I have seen at least one person express his dislike of Gil Alexander/Alex the Great on the premise that the developers tried to make him too much like Sander Cohen and created what was essentially a bad knock-off. When I reached that part of the game and found out what had been done to Gil, I started to think that maybe the reason he acted so much like Cohen was because he probably had some of Cohen's ADAM spliced into him, giving him his thoughts and memories, and possibly even some aspects of his personality which took over. The great Sander Cohen isn't one to share the spotlight, after all...

* Grace Holloway tells Delta that he broke her jaw when she approached Eleanor. No wonder Grace's so angry about that--she's a singer!

** That, and getting your jaw broken hurts like hell.

* A little Meta here. Remember how reviewers complained that the Vita Chambers harmed the game, making it far less challenging? While it was a valid point, somehow complainers didn't think that even before a patch was released it was possible for a gamer to simply choose to ignore the chambers and reload the game every time he was killed. That's right. It's a game where you can must ''defy'' some of its rules to make it more challenging, realistic and interesting. Of course, you can choose to follow the given pattern instead. To ''obey'' the rules.

* Rapture is suspiciously similar to a [[Atlantis|certain city that sank because of the hubris of its inhabitants]], but what does Atlantis mean? "Island of Atlas."

* It took me three or four playthroughs to figure out that Steinman was intentionally incorporating his audio diaries into little exhibits. That's why they were all propped upright or hung on walls! That's why the audio diary about symmetry was next to an asymmetrically disfigured corpse!

* The most prominent figures who opposes the Objectivist ideas of Andrew Ryan and Rapture in both games? Frank and Eleanor. Who share their given names with [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and his wife Eleanor, both who fought to introduce welfare to the United States. Something Ryan vehemently opposes.

** I think the logic is much simpler - people find smoking relaxing (we tend to assume it would take some concentration to use magic and, as pointed out, plasmids are more or less magic). The reason alcohol, though relaxing, decreases EVE is that alcohol would presumably make it harder to concentrate (though I can't think of a good reason that binge drinking wouldn't damage your health).

** It's more likely a reference to Ayn Rand novels, in which most characters, especially the ideals, smoke like chimneys. Smoking is even described as "fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his finger tips," in Atlas Shrugged.

* When Fontaine uses "Code Yellow" in an attempt to kill you, he says "I just told your brain to tell your heart to stop beating"... but the brain ''doesn't'' control the heartbeat, that's the work of the sinoatrial node. Stimulation via the CN X: Vagus Nerve can ''slow'' the heart rate and stimulation via the T1-4, Spinal Nerves can increase ''both'' heart-rate and contraction strength, but ''neither'' will kill you. Which is probably why you ''don't'' die despite the fact he does it several times. In fact, he admits "The heart is a stubborn muscle".

** What happened to Jack's body after Fontaine issued the "Code Yellow" command probably ''was'' as described above, as it was actual scientists like Suchong and Tenenbaum who worked on Jack and presumably would have known what they were doing. As far as Fontaine was concerned, however -- who I don't imagine was fantastically versed in science or anatomy -- he just wanted something that would stop Jack's heart. So saying it was the brain was probably just an error / lack of care on Fontaine's part. As for the sinoatrial node not being able to kill you anyway...well, given the whole mind-control dealio and everything else, we can probably chalk that up as another scientific breakthrough.

** Now, according to the audio logs, before Tenenbaum's work with the little sisters, they produced Adam by eating, in addition to not producing very much. Now, consider that drinking alcohol decreases Eve and increases health. Alcohol is a tranquilizer, which "slows you down". Meanwhile, drinking caffine ''increases'' eve. Caffine is a stimulant, which "speeds you up". Eve is produced based on your metabolism!

** Now, When you drink, you gain health, and when you smoke, you lose health. You gain some health from snacks and a lot from First-Aid kits. Drinking moonshine isn't going to take a bullet out of your face, but what does alcohol do? It makes you feel better! If you don't feel as much pain, you're able to go longer without falling over because of that sharp pain in your knee! The health isn't a measure of your actual state of health! It's how good you ''feel'' and how much pain you think you can endure before you can't go any further. Hence why smoking decreases your health! It's unpleasant for those new to it!

** Smoking decreases Jack's health because it's unpleasant for him. It's unpleasant for him because he's new to it. He's new to it... because he's never actually smoked until that point! Remember how Fontaine said none of Jack's memories were real? That means Jack was smoking on the plane because he only ''thought'' he was a smoker, though he'd never smoked before in his life, because that was part of the memories Fontaine put into him! He reacts badly because his body isn't used to smoking!

* Got peeved off by the difficulty change in Bioshock 2? Consider this: the only living non-spliced people were in hiding (Tenenbaum, Grace Holloway, Stanley Poole) and the rest were immediately killed by splicers. Splicers are constantly battling each other to harvest ADAM from their corpses. So between Jack's departure and Delta's resurrection, splicers have been fighting each other with the better spliced one prevailing, and the ones Delta fought were the strongest of the strong. In other words, ''natural selection'' is the reason you can only have a Big Daddy as the protagonist of Bioshock 2.

* The Rapture "anthem" that plays during the 2K logo goes, "Rise, Rapture, Rise! We turn our hopes up to the skies!" ...And where does Jack come from at the beginning of the game?

** When you go into the frozen section of Poseidon Plaza, there's a trash can with food in it... It's been ''in a frozen trash can'' for two years. you may think [[Squick|Ew]] at first but then... ''FROZEN'' Trash can..

** Rapture's turrets, cameras and security bots are slightly in advance of today's technologies, let alone those of the 1960s. Even allowing for "science not bound by petty morality" it seems unusually advanced...until you find out that most of the modern advances in neuroscience came after the invention of MRI and other non-invasive ways to watch a live brain in action. Prior to this, neuroscience progressed mostly through the study of brain injuries. Petty morality meant that neuroscientists had to wait for the rare accident to happen. [[Fridge Horror|In Rapture, on the other hand... Neuroscience becomes much easier]].

** {{spoiler|Same with Subject Delta. Somewhat chilling when you find out you were made an example of by being turned into a Big Daddy...}}

** One has to wonder what it's like for Gil Alexander, having {{spoiler|been drafted in for experiments which have made him into a monstrous, immensely disturbing foetus-like creature through feeding him gigantic amounts of mutagenic gloop and now not even being recognisably human, let alone having friends, conversation, a love life or anything he (may have) had as a human. All after having his body contort into something vomit-makingly disturbing, which is probably not the most enjoyable process.}} That fucking sucks, damn near putting him on a [[The Woobie|Woobie]] level. Then, for extra Fridge Horror, try imagining what he'd do {{spoiler|should he be released free into the ocean as part of him begs to be allowed}}. How, precisely, do you think it would end up having THAT floating around?

** Well, this one came from the page... the Rosie is a Big Daddy... Rosie the Riveter is a female role model... The Daddy is named after a woman, and little sisters are conditioned to reject 'mothers'... interesting.

* Took me a while to notice and possibly not Fridge Brilliance, but one of the reasons Rapture is so flooded is possibly because a lot of the Splicers are wielding pipes, no doubt ripped straight from the walls.

* Fridge horror- Since Big Daddies are mentally conditioned to have no purpose other than to protect a Little Sister when not near one, they effectively have no reason to live and no will.

* [[Fridge Horror]]: The [[Apocalyptic Log|audio diaries]] are unsettling enough already, but it wasn't until my fifth or sixth playthrough that one of the ads I had been seeing all along hit home: these diaries are made by Fontaine Futuristics. About two-thirds of the way through the first game, you learn that Frank Fontaine {{spoiler|is the son of a bitch who has been manipulating you the entire time}}. [[Player Punch|And every single audio diary you've seen, as well as the ones you haven't seen, put money in his pocket]].

 

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