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A question regarding the character of Michael Thorton.


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So, as I understand it you play as a "spy" in this game. Fine. A United States one, at that. But, you were burned, so to speak. Very well, I can accept this.

 

BUT - and this is a very important but - are not United States intelligence agents (not counterintel) agents of neocolonialism? Do they not gather information on third-world countries in case the US businesses in the region decide to lobby the government to overthrow democratically elected governments? Are they not, if only by association, responsible for dozens of (successful) coups of socialist democracies for the United States' businesspeople?

 

This leads me onto my point: must I play Thorton as a neocolonialist oppressor, or can I aid the Russians, the Saudis, the Chinese, and more in their struggle for national sovereignty in the face of American hegemony?

 

Please answer soon.

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This post made my day.

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Epic.

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In game quote: "You are operating under alpha protocol."

 

I assume that means you can do whatever it takes to complete the mission. Whether that means you help the proletariat or the bourgeoisie, it all depends on who can help you reach your goal (probably the bourgeoisie). Go money!

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Well, I do hope you can choose (at least to some degree) who you're aligned with. That's pretty integral to RPG games.

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So, as I understand it you play as a "spy" in this game. Fine. A United States one, at that. But, you were burned, so to speak. Very well, I can accept this.

 

BUT - and this is a very important but - are not United States intelligence agents (not counterintel) agents of neocolonialism? Do they not gather information on third-world countries in case the US businesses in the region decide to lobby the government to overthrow democratically elected governments? Are they not, if only by association, responsible for dozens of (successful) coups of socialist democracies for the United States' businesspeople?

 

This leads me onto my point: must I play Thorton as a neocolonialist oppressor, or can I aid the Russians, the Saudis, the Chinese, and more in their struggle for national sovereignty in the face of American hegemony?

 

Please answer soon.

 

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The only other games I know of that let you choose which country you want to help in a given situation are the Mercenaries games. That being said, I'm not sure if AP will let you actually help individual countries escape the capitalist oppression of sex, drugs, and rock & roll.

 

However, it seems to me that you want MT to have the ability to defect to whatever country he wants but if that were so I doubt that he would be able to operate under "Alpha Protocol." Of coarse, more information is needed.

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"Some people are always trying to iceskate uphill."

Blade(Wesley Snipes) from the movie Blade.

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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." - Sigmund Freud

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Shoot woman -> World is saved

 

I fail to see the logic in ur argument...

"Some people are always trying to iceskate uphill."

Blade(Wesley Snipes) from the movie Blade.

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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." - Sigmund Freud

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I want to play MT as a fundamentalist christian.

"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

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I want to play Mike Thornton as a contrarian socialist like lord of flies.
I assume that you mean "contrarian" as in I believe things contrary to regressivism, imperialism, sexism, capitalism, and neo-colonialism, right?

 

Not really. More like you believe in taking the opposite stance of anything centrist or right-wing rather than considering things on their merits. Such knee-jerk ideology galls me, from both the left and the right.

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Not really. More like you believe in taking the opposite stance of anything centrist or right-wing rather than considering things on their merits. Such knee-jerk ideology galls me, from both the left and the right.
Just because someone holds a cohesive worldview that happens to be the opposite of what someone else holds, doesn't mean they're a "contrarian." I could just as easily say that right-wingers are contrarian because they are in opposition to pretty much everything I believe, but does that mean that they define themselves by opposition? No.

 

I hold the viewpoints I hold based upon a utilitarian examination of the past and present functions of human society, which lead me to believe that imperialism is terrible, neo-colonialism is atrocious, warmongers are evil, and capitalism has a net negative effect on human society.

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