our eyes are closed, america
there are souls in the boots of the soldiers, america
fuck your yellow ribbon; you want to support our troops,
you bring them home, and you hold them tight
when they get here.

- Andrea Gibson, For Eli

PS: Click the link, it’s an MP3 and it will blow your fucking mind

“Damn you Obama, for turning this cynic into a believer in the ideal of the audacity of Hope.”

- Damn you Barack Obama, you pretty motherfucker – Darian Dauchan

The part of the game that is really interesting though, is the story – while it’s shamelessly ripped from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, they take the themes of objectivism and morality and combine it with a spot-on dark, brooding Steampunk aesthetic. It reminds me of how Quentin Tarantino directs – while almost all of his ideas are rip-offs of other movies, the seamless way that he combines all of these different pieces into a meaningful experience is the beauty of the movie. They both seem to be able to take a genre or a style and extract the underlying emotion and why people find it motivating, and combine it in a new and cool way.

Anyways, it’s cool to see the authors take their exploration further than the typical morality of “good guy / bad guy” and see the effects of taking a philosophy to its eventual end-result.