The Campaign Builder's Guild

[ooc]Hi!
Everybody seems to be posting their reviews for comics and stuff here, and since i am an unhealthily obsessed cartoon nerd in general, i have alot i need to get out of my system, and by posting my thoughts and feelings on cartoons, i can probably help myself in that department. Still if nobodies interested in this, i'll just not continue doing this so i'll see how this goes.[/ooc]

Anybody who's anybody who has even the most remote connection to the video gaming scene knows about objectivism simply because of Bioshock. Now do not get me wrong, when I first got my PS3, Bioshock was the first video game I bought for it, and I don't regret it in the slightest. It left me wide awake at night pondering my own convictions about the power of individualism. Anybody who doesn't think that video games can become a great storytelling tool should go play this game, because Bioshock plays out like that niggling doubt in the back of Ayn Rand's mind, turned into a full blown nightmare.

However long before Bioshock hit the video game scene, there was another criticism of objectivism. It even had mutant mass manufactured little girls to act as the symbolism of decay due to the rejection of morality and altruism. What could I possibly be talking about?
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'What? Newb MSTie, what does three super powered little tot's that came out of an exploding nursery rhyme have to do with objectivism?' Well go grab a snack, sit down, and listen.

The Powerpuff Girls is notorious for dealing with huge political issues ranging from Sexism, to Communism vs. Capitilism. The handling of these issues range from dealing with it very subtly, to just being obnoxious about it sometimes. While many may not realize it, there was an episode that could be considered Bioshock for nine year olds.

In episode #45 of Season 4 titled "Knock It Off" Professor Utonium invites over an old college roommate of his named Dick Hardly. Dick is a cunning, intelligent, heartless businessman who comes over seeking to find the next big thing, and hoping that Professor Utonium will be able to supply. Upon seeing the Powerpuff girls, dollar signs immediatly replace his pupils, and he starts trying to coax Prof. Utonium into going into business with him to create more powerpuff girls to sell to the rest of the world. Apalled by the way that Dick was treating his daughters, he throws him out of the house, to only have Dick come to their school and pick them up in his car (not creepy at all...) and talk to the girls when the Professor wasn't around. The girls give him the recipe, and even steal some Chemical X for him. Then he goes on to pitch sales world wide for his mass manufactured knock-offs of the powerpuff girls.
Getting sick of it all, the original powerpuff girls come to get the chemical x back, and he then consumes the rest of whats left of the chemical x, turning him into a huge monster. After a long fight he manages to capture the girls, and attempts to steal the chemical x that is in there bodies. The Professor walks into the factory horrified at all the ugly knock-offs, and attempts to rescue his little girls. It turns into a desperate melodrama for a few minutes only to have the professor being captured, then he turns to his girls and tells them he loves them, and the girls say the same. This touches the hearts of the knock off puffs, and they turn on Dick reallizing that they have never been loved. It all ends in a happy disney-esque ending, with the factory exploding, and the narrator making a delightfully corny Beatles reference.

What this episode manages to capture most above all else in my opinion is objectivisms war with altruism. The Professor is the perfect representation of altruism in this scenario. Instead of mass manufacturing the powerpuff girls for profit and gain, he adopted them and nurtured them as his own, and it's their family unity that saves them in the end of the episode. Just as SPOILER ALERT Fontaine is the biggest critiscism of objectivism in Bioshcok, Dick Hardly too is the ideal objectivist. He's intelligent, charming, looks out only for himself, and rejects all notions of morality in favor of his own gain.

This episode is pretty unique, but i have always been fascinated by the coralation that objectivism has always had with superheroes in general like batman, and several others, but especially Pixars The Incredibles. I just wonder how Ayn Rand would feel about being poked at by mutant five year olds.... [/size]

Is there some reason you posted this in super-ginormous font size?

I thought it would be easier to read. I shrunk it down to 14 size though.

For me it was harder to read actually!
Thanks. :D