BioShock
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BioShock is a 2007 PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 game chronicling a plane crash survivor's discovery of an underwater society named "Rapture" and the consequent exploration of the events behind the now dystopian society.
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[edit] Radio Announcements
- A Rapture reminder: We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.
[edit] Andrew Ryan
- Whenever anyone wants others to do their work they call upon their Altruism. "Never mind your own needs," they say, "Think of the needs of... of whoever. Of the state. Of the poor. Of the Army, of the King. Of God." The list goes on and on. How many catastrophes were launched with the words "Think of yourself?" It's the king and country crowd who light the torch of destruction.
- I had thought I had left the Parasites of Moscow behind me. I thought I had left the Marxist Altruists to their collective farms and their "Five Year Plans." But as the German fools threw themselves on Hitler's sword for the good of the Reich, the Americans drank deeper and deeper of the Bolshevik poison, spoon fed to them by Roosevelt and his New Dealers. And so I asked myself, "In what country was there a place for men like me? Men who refused to say yes to the parasites and the doubters? Men who believed that work was sacred and property rights inviolate?" And then one day the happy answer came to me, my friends. There was no country for people like me. And that was the moment I decided to build one!
- I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful in each of us, a combination of our efforts, a great chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interests that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you differently either has his hand in your pocket or a pistol to your neck.
- I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.
- Even in a book of lies sometimes you find truth. There is indeed a season for all things and now that I see you flesh-to-flesh and blood-to-blood I know I cannot raise my hand against you. But know this, you are my greatest disappointment. Does your master hear me? Atlas! You can kill me, but you will never have my city. My strength is not in steel and fire, that is what the parasites will never understand. A season for all things! A time to live and a time to die, a time to build... and a time to destroy!
- What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks, 'Where's my share?' A man creates, a parasite says, 'What will the neighbors think?' A man invents, a parasite says, 'Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God...
- A man chooses, a slave obeys.
- Isn't a man entitled to the sweat of his own brow?
- We all make choices in life, but in the end our choices make us.
[edit] Mariska Lutz
- The minute we came here, Masha started screaming, "Mama! Mama! What is that? What is that?" I thought she was having some kind of seizure and then I realized... trees... trees! Never saw one before, thought they were monsters. Oh, Sammy, maybe we never should have come to this place...
[edit] Dr. Steinman
- When Picasso became bored of painting people, he started representing them as cubes and other abstract forms. The world called him a genius! I've spent my entire surgical career creating the same tired shapes, over and over again: the upturned nose, the cleft chin, the ample bosom. Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could do with a knife what that old Spaniard did with a brush?
- With genetic modifications, beauty is no longer a goal, or even a virtue. It is a moral obligation. Do we force the healthy to live with the contagious? Do we mix the criminal with the law-abiding? Then WHY are the plain allowed to mingle with the fair?
[edit] Atlas/Frank Fontaine
- Would you kindly?
- Every time we move a yard ahead, Ryan goes and moves the goal line down to the other side of the field!
- If you want to use the emergency access, you'll be needing Dr. Steinman's key. He's the one who runs this place. But don't expect him to give it to you out of the milk of human kindness. Stienman ain't that kind, and frankly, I'm not even sure if he's still human.
- You know, you should be THANKING me! I BROUGHT YOU HERE! I SHOWED YOU WHO YOU ARE! NOBODY EVER TOLD YOU NOTHING BUT LIES 'TILL I CAME ALONG!
- AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I really wound you up with that "wife and child" bit. (Mimics Atlas voice) "Oh, me poor Moira. AH! Me wee baby Patrick! (Returns to normal voice) AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Maybe one day I'll get me a real family. They play well with the suckers.
- I remember when me and the Kraut put you on that sub. You were no more than two. You were my ace in the hole. But you were also the closest thing I've ever had to a son. That's why this hurts, kid. Life isn't strictly business.
[edit] Splicers
- This little fish looks like he just had his cherry popped. I wonder if he's still got some ADAM on him.
- I will show you what it's like to look different!
- Even miles underwater...he still sees everything!
- Jesus loves me this i know, for the bible tells me so!
- I'll wrap you in a sheet...
