The Red Strings Club

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bikumyua 2 Apr, 2018 @ 6:56pm
I would love this game if it wasn't so pushy with the gender politics
Honestly was quite p*ssed off when Akara thought I was stupid because I said I didn't think women were oppressed.

Based on the game the women are doing pretty ♥♥♥♥ing good. All 4 so far had high powered jobs, oh and a 15 year old girl is the CEO while the guys are a criminal, a bartender, and that one who is a 'wacky' scientist. So oppressed.

Crap like that in games really ruins it for me.
Last edited by bikumyua; 2 Apr, 2018 @ 6:57pm
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LOL

Reversal of reality happens, and crash burn.

LOL!
magitaan 4 Apr, 2018 @ 11:08am 
Well - it doesn't ruin it for me, but i can perfectly understand you.

But maybe this world isn't just graphically "pixelated". Maybe what we can see from our perspective is not everything and that is what Akara wants to imply.
Obviously this is not something that you as a player could have guessed because your arguments seem pretty valid. I think it is intended that the player feels like an idiot and angry at that point to imply that you cannot see under the hood no matter what you do.

Besides that - a 15 year old child that has been "farmed" to satisfy a given role in a company does not speak "satisfaction" so much but rather "brave new world". Doesn't it?
Ben Carson 4 Apr, 2018 @ 12:28pm 
bump
bikumyua 6 Apr, 2018 @ 4:34pm 
If they were trying to make you think deep then they did a terrible job with the scripting on that. They didn't give the audience any reason to think about it, there was no hook, clues, nothing to give me any reason to think it was at all relevant to the plot. And it wasn't.
Anita Coffee 7 Apr, 2018 @ 5:21pm 
Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry. :poppo:
TioBF 8 Apr, 2018 @ 9:58am 
Agreed tbqh
gentle 10 Apr, 2018 @ 2:16am 
honestly that stuff annoys me too, but i don't find it annoying if it doesn't get in the way of telling a compelling story and for the most part i thought that this was well written and well delivered. it did feel somewhat personal in a sense when i chose that response, not because of her reply but because it felt like they made it available because they wanted to insult me personally for my views.
bikumyua 11 Apr, 2018 @ 5:29am 
Yeh it did seem personal to me too. Every other question made sense in the context of the game but that one was so bizarrely placed. I don't understand what they hoped to achieve.

For me, having it so close to the end did wreck the atmosphere and ultimately the overall impact of everything the game had been building to at that point.
gmallen 15 Apr, 2018 @ 10:42am 
Seems like the question accomplished the writer's purpose -- we are talking about it in the context of the game; in real life, simple math tells us that women are supressed and repressed.
Whiffers 15 May, 2018 @ 8:25pm 
Any answer you give, she tells you that you are stupid. I just feel like a different response would have been justified.
Kamamura 30 May, 2018 @ 2:00am 
That is a narrative foul, because the autor of the game pushes his/her own agenda by putting it into the mouth of an omniscient entity in the game (how would you like a story where for example Jesus Christ would start persuading people that black people are inferior?). The foul is reinforced by the fact that Akara patiently argues all her points, but here, suddenly, no arguments are given, only a derogative, ad-hominem attack.

And that is a method fanatics often use when they feel their arguments are lacking.
Last edited by Kamamura; 30 May, 2018 @ 2:00am
bikumyua 4 Jun, 2018 @ 5:55pm 
Originally posted by gmallen:
Seems like the question accomplished the writer's purpose -- we are talking about it in the context of the game; in real life, simple math tells us that women are supressed and repressed.

We aren't doing that though.
Sly Pooper 14 Jun, 2018 @ 2:28pm 
Aw, did the poor boy's feewings get hurt by the mean lady and her bad words?
Livers 15 Jun, 2018 @ 2:34am 
Originally posted by gmallen:
Seems like the question accomplished the writer's purpose -- we are talking about it in the context of the game; in real life, simple math tells us that women are supressed and repressed.
Your mother is repressed and supressed by having such a brain dead imbecile as a son/daughter/sjw mutant.
supostatka 15 Jun, 2018 @ 12:42pm 
cry more :) happy Pride month to all!
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