Dustborn - The Latest and Biggest DEI Flop to Date that No One Asked for!

[SteelPlatedHeart]

All I’m getting from this game is that Kennedy surviving some how would have caused “Super Climate Change” and gave random people superpowers.

 

[Baraadmirer]

All I’m getting from this game is that Kennedy surviving some how would have caused “Super Climate Change” and gave random people superpowers.

We truly are living in the darkest timeline.

 

[Vibralldo]

I see the devs were fans of A Serbian Film.

Glad I wasn't the only one to make that connection

All I’m getting from this game is that Kennedy surviving some how would have caused “Super Climate Change” and gave random people superpowers.

Prey (the 2017 immersive sim) also takes place in an alternate reality where Kennedy lived but we got a double down on space travel and futuristic technologies instead

 

[Sniperwoof]

This game looks like something out of South Park. Are we sure that Trey Parker and Matt Stone aren't oracles?

Funny you should mention that. This game has the mechanic from Fractured Butthole where you can become triggered during combat which causes a debuff except in this game it's played completely straight and unironic instead of for comedy's sake.

 

[Tablet County]

Ragnar Tørnquist's obsession with Donald Trump - Interviews about why he decided to make his "very angry, very political" game Dustborn set in the USA.

What is it with the TDS people? It's entirely possible to create something from a place of deep, ideologically-motivated seethe that doesn't suck. It really speaks to the character of these fuckwits when they bare their soul to the world and shit like this is the product.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Funny you should mention that. This game has the mechanic from Fractured Butthole where you can become triggered during combat which causes a debuff except in this game it's played completely straight and unironic instead of for comedy's sake.

It was that and the social difficulty slider that made me think of South Park. In other news, Wukong has sold ten million copies in three days.

 

[X Prime]

when they bare their soul to the world and shit like this is the product.

Leftists aren't human and thus by definition do not have souls. This is why "games" such as this do not have substance.

 

[Jerri's Kid]

This game fares poorly even when compared to other Red Thread Games releases (which I find hilarious for culturally appropriating the concept of the red string of fate in Eastern cultures like China and Japan ( About | Archive )).

Are you sure it's an Asian reference? I thought it was a Kabbalah one because in Dreamfall: Chapters there is a synagogue in Propast that really stands out. I thought he was perhaps into Jewish mysticism or something but who knows.

What is it with the TDS people? It's entirely possible to create something from a place of deep, ideologically-motivated seethe that doesn't suck. It really speaks to the character of these fuckwits when they bare their soul to the world and shit like this is the product.

Oh, he was weird well before Trump but that broke his brain further. He sperged out a bit when Gamergate happened though not as noticeably as Tim Schafer.

 

[Baraadmirer]

Are you sure it's an Asian reference? I thought it was a Kabbalah one because in Dreamfall: Chapters there is a synagogue in Propast that really stands out. I thought he was perhaps into Jewish mysticism or something but who knows.

Definitely. The concept emerged from Chinese mythology (Wikipedia article), which disseminated into other East Asian cultures.

 

[Fat Moron]

It really speaks to the character of these fuckwits when they bare their soul to the world and shit like this is the product.

Ragnar Tørnquist as a writer is a good example what's happened with western culture and all its cultural products. As others have mentioned, in 1999 The Longest Journey was delightful and imaginative. I haven't played it in almost 25 years, but I wouldn't be surprised if it holds up just fine, janky production values aside. Others have been less charitable here against Dreamfall from 2006, but I think he was still in control of his mental faculties and made a story that was coherent, inspired and focused.

In 2014 with Dreamfall Chapters, it was all over. Ragnar Tørnquist had become a deranged lunatic who couldn't leave twitter arguments alone and kept incorporating pointless distracting elements into the story to own the chuds. I was there playing each chapter as they came out, seeing how he interacted on twitter. He is not doing a parody of anything in those interviews, he really is that crazy. Before 2014 he was able to write stories with consistent characters and internal logic that built upon what came before across two games. He completely lost sight of that, because he bought a smartphone in the late 2000s and signed up to Facebook and Twitter just like everyone else. Then it was all over for his writing career. He was obsessed with Richard Spencer being punched and nazis literally rising and walking the streets OMG guys! Meanwhile people like me who loved Dreamfall got pissed because he wrote a piece of shit that retroactively destroyed our positive memories of the stories he wrote before. He lost the ability to write stories and became obsessed with writing propaganda. He's shouldering the white man's burden to civilize the masses.

Like he mentioned in those interviews, his writing feels like the product of someone who wakes up every day, imports the the latest mainstream media programming, and goes mad. He mentioned outright in those interviews that Dustborn is intended to be election interfering propaganda to sway the US public against Trump. Why on earth is a Norwegian man acting like this? I think he's a strong argument against teaching English in school. A language barrier might've saved him. In Metal Gear Solid 5 you encounter a virus that targets people who know a certain language, like say French. I think in game it's randomized which language the virus goes after. The point is, language exposes you to viruses, like US election propaganda. Many people seem to develop mental illnesses from these viruses, and this is a big problem threatening the whole of the English speaking world. Your only hope is to not understand English, as we see in cultures in Asia like Japan where bad ideas are much slower to spread because of the language comprehension gap.

 

[Miller]

You know what's weird? This game is supposedly for the ultra woke alphabet people, right? Surely there are more than 100 of them playing games on steam? Why isn't this game doing better?

I have a crack theory. Maybe the "woke left" doesn't like this game because its actually so on the nose woke because it's making fun of the woke sjws? and they obviously don't like to be made to look like buffoons so they're not playing the game either.

The left didn't buy or promote the game because they don't play vidya and it's an original IP. They prefer when their friends are subverting a well-established IP because it's easier.

 

[Kane Lives]

Many people seem to develop mental illnesses from these viruses, and this is a big problem threatening the whole of the English speaking world. Your only hope is to not understand English, as we see in cultures in Asia like Japan where bad ideas are much slower to spread because of the language comprehension gap.

I mean, a plurality of Asians/Arabs/Latams also understand English and they seem just fine. That said, the commonality I observe with a lot of these deranged writers is how irreligious they are. I feel like the lack of a common moral framework renders you susceptible to such brainrot to begin with.

 

[X Prime]

Wait, this is the same Ragnar who wrote The Secret World.

Yeah, you could kind of see the beginnings of wokism slip in with that writing. Basically, the way that game worked was that all myths are true, except that the standard Christian interpretation was always the most wrong in some manner.

@Jet Fuel Johnny probably would be better able to speak about it than I am.

 

[ZMOT]

Are you sure it's an Asian reference? I thought it was a Kabbalah one because in Dreamfall: Chapters there is a synagogue in Propast that really stands out. I thought he was perhaps into Jewish mysticism or something but who knows.

isn't "threads of fate" pretty much universal? iirc the greeks had their own version of it.

Wait, this is the same Ragnar who wrote The Secret World.

there isn't a lot of that shit in TSW, I assume he was just doing the broad designs and lore.

 

[ChadBrazilian]

They dropped the absolute banger of a soundtrack.

Only a true genius would rhyme the word "born(e)" three times with itself and also rhyme "newborn" with "new porn." Enjoy other songs like "Escaping the Gig Grind" and "Influence Apocalypse!" Are you feeling it, fellow kids!

Remember: The synopsis of this game describes the band as a 'punk' band. If this is punk then Imagine Dragons is Black Metal.

 

[X Prime]

there isn't a lot of that shit in TSW, I assume he was just doing the broad designs and lore.

If memory serves, the TSW forums regularly slobbered his knob and said there were supposedly reams upon reams of unused Ragnar material. The oldheads there sure acted like he did it all.

 

[Fagnacious D]

Remember: The synopsis of this game describes the band as a 'punk' band. If this is punk then Imagine Dragons is Black Metal.

I would like to name this type of music "Cuck Punk"

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

I would like to name this type of music "Cuck Punk"
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No fun allowed. Faggots.

 

[Jerri's Kid]

isn't "threads of fate" pretty much universal? iirc the greeks had their own version of it.

Looks like it. I guess I associated it with Kabbalah because of that period when Madonna and her cronies were all wearing red thread and I thought he was into something like that too. Apparently, "red thread" is a common Nordic metaphor for a shared and highlighted characteristic.

 

[ZMOT]

If memory serves, the TSW forums regularly slobbered his knob and said there were supposedly reams upon reams of unused Ragnar material. The oldheads there sure acted like he did it all.

maybe, but then it must be literal old designs, because there isn't really any retarded wokeshit in the game. closest political would be illuminati basically being the deep state.