Let's Play - Borderlands 2 - Part 14: WTF Everything
5After a three week break for finals and vacation, Solon just goes nuts on a variety of topics from philosophy to current events to psychology and anarchism. All great themes and ideas to be slowly and arduously tripped over during a long and tedious side quest. Gracious edits are made to speed up certain long and uninteresting parts. 350% speed is a pretty funny speed to watch the game at. Meanwhile, Saxton heats it up with some cultists who say they are friends with Lillith, you know, like us!
If you would like to see my research and essay on psychology in games, I'd be more than happy to provide it. I think it is a poor research paper, but it has great sources and is probably interesting to read from a gamer-perspective.
Anarchism is an idea about abolishing oppressive systems and returning power to human beings for human beings. It is all about equality and has a lot of really interesting overlaps with video games since games are systems of interactions between rules and fictions. Anarcho-punk is also hella fashionable, so double-plus win? Sure.
Resources!:
http://let-me-be-frank.blogspot.com/2010/03/anarchism-and-humanism.html - an interesting narrative and a good starting block, especially the comments underneath.
http://youtu.be/g-wHipDwvgk?t=3m10s - Sexy Noam Chomsky discusses Neo-Liberalism, which was my personal introduction into understanding systems of oppression, because I could identify my problems with society in the hegemonic devices embedded within Neo-Liberalism. It is good language to have in any case.
http://anarchy101.org/2892/what-role-do-games-play-in-anarchy - This is games in the general not-necessarily-digital sense, but you can see some really basic ties between how games represent systems and how anarchy and play coincide. They are lovely bedmates.
(I also have much longer texts if you'd like more. They could be much more insightful than my quick Google search listed here)
Like Borderlands 2, RDLP is as cooperative as you want it to be. Please ask questions and write comments and help me excavate this game!
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