Druid on Nostr: Last night I watched “Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy” and while I knew the ...
Last night I watched “Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy” and while I knew the majority of the stuff in it already, it filled me with absolute disgust for our fucking species, and brought to mind Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey.
I realize a lot of people have never played a real shin megoomy tensay game so I want to briefly explain: The game takes place during a demonic incursion into Antarctica, and the human characters have to tread very carefully into the possessed/transformed territory, hence the spacesuit-like gear.
Each “sector” of the corrupted area reflects a human evil or excess: The first two are themed around war and sexual exploitation respectively. But the third and fourth sectors are an endless shopping mall and its sister, the endless garbage dump.
As the player progresses through the game, the demons they talk to start to realise that they can’t outdo humanity when it comes to doing evil, express disgust at their humanity-themed surroundings and (rightly) state that they would do a better job of running things than us anyway. Some of them outright say they are forces of GOOD compared to humanity.
I realize a lot of people have never played a real shin megoomy tensay game so I want to briefly explain: The game takes place during a demonic incursion into Antarctica, and the human characters have to tread very carefully into the possessed/transformed territory, hence the spacesuit-like gear.
Each “sector” of the corrupted area reflects a human evil or excess: The first two are themed around war and sexual exploitation respectively. But the third and fourth sectors are an endless shopping mall and its sister, the endless garbage dump.
As the player progresses through the game, the demons they talk to start to realise that they can’t outdo humanity when it comes to doing evil, express disgust at their humanity-themed surroundings and (rightly) state that they would do a better job of running things than us anyway. Some of them outright say they are forces of GOOD compared to humanity.