Probably two years after I started it, tonight I finally beat "Horizon Zero Dawn". Even though the Ubisoft-style open world games are among my least favorite genres, it's probably my favorite title within that category of game.

It's unfortunate about the story then. Reinforcing my hypothesis in that regard, they actually wrote a line of dialogue near the end of the game, which went something like "once Gaia loses control of the environment and its formation falls to chance, it will gradually crumble and collapse."

Of course, the environment was created in the first place "by chance", which makes the line nonsensical from the get-go. But in the second place, the quote is channeling Marx: "The planned economies will thrive while the capitalist ones will collapse."

In a world where every single Communist country has either collapsed or is presently imploding, and where the Capitalist countries are thriving, to have written such blather in the year 2017 exposes astonishing lack of awareness and cognitive dissonance.

So when you, the player, overrides Hades at the end of the game, you're actually stopping Capitalism. See the metaphor? It's like when you put the old golf club through the skull of "Andy Ryan"-- Ayn Rand-- in "BioShock".

And of course, Capitalism is then re-captured and stored by the utterly amoral "Morpheus" character to be unleashed in the sequel. I can't wait!

It all reminds me of Mark Dice's video this morning, where he talks about how SJWs are quite literally and deliberately taking over Hollywood. Add the video game industry to it. What makes it insidious is that the average meatsack just consumes this stuff, not even remotely aware of how it's conditioning their world view.

The last thing I'll say about "Horizon" is that in the probably two hundred and fifty names which were shown in the credits, I counted about eight women. However, the executive producer was one of them. She could have hired a team of women, for sure! But nope: when rubber met the road and she had a game to get created, she hired a bunch of men.

The cognitive dissonance for someone like that must be astonishing! "I'm a powerful womyn, I don't need no men! Oh, er, except when I want anything to get done." And, "women are just as strong and as good as men at absolutely anything! Oh, um, except engineering, programming, artwork..."

But of course, she'd blame it on "the system", which is the way these people always weasel out. "I couldn't hire women! Systemic oppression keeps them out of the industry, hurr durr", or "the Communist countries only collapsed because it wasn't real Socialism!" There's just no reasoning with these people.

And don't misunderstand me, I haven't got anything against women in general: there are lots of other fields where it'd be tough to find enough competent men, like nursing. On average, women = emphasizers, men = systematizers. That's why women are almost exclusively marketers, and engineers are almost exclusively men. And who the hell cares? But that torpedoes a hole right through the wall of the the "oppression!" world view.