Yes! Exactly! He lived too long to be become his worst enemy!

Nope. Just a shitty libertarian

Bruh. You're supposed to disagree with him. He's just a terrible person by design. Accept it

@@ingvaruski7749 Fontaine was a parasite

@@HeyJinx no, he's actually not terrible, he stood by his ideals, even when he knew they were flawed, and his city died for it, OBEY

Oh the bloody irony i those two statements

Ryan's own unregulated free market capitalism is what allowed Frank Fontaine to create an empire and recruit an army of poor people to overthrow him.

@@Jew-Gi-Oh_419 I believe in an unregulated free market. This game strawmans the anarcho-capitalist belief a bit. In a society with no state there would be no power to obtain.

@@anunknownentity1637 "In a society with no state there would be no power to obtain" Game pretty much is a mental experiment on what would happen with no state, there's always power, ALWAYS. anarchism is the greatest of illusions ever, its impossible for it to exist in any universe were there's asymmetry of information, basically, all universes that can support any complexity

@@monad_tcp the power Fontaine gained was completely contingent on underwater, superpower giving, drug like slugs. Keep in mind that Rapture was a single closed off area. If someone wanted to compete with Fontaine they could open up their own business, but not when their is limited space and resources. Now I ask if there is always power, then what is that power? It obviously wouldn't be governmental or statist power. Raptures fall was due to only a limited ability to compete in the market as well as unrealistic slugs.

@@anunknownentity1637 " then what is that power? " in nature there are two different systems of information, centralized and decentralized. power comes naturally in any centralized system, decentralized systems dilute it, there are advantages and disadvantages to each, we probably need to strike a balance of both, (like you have a centralized brain and a distributed nervous system at the same time) There will always be power, as long as energy/information flows, it will concentrate, its a natural law. Markets only follow the same laws all else follows. Rapture really fallen when the market was seized by a single entity, thus it stopped being a distributed system, a market only works as long as its a distributed system, if it becomes centralized, then its no better than any government.

Technically, he had eyes everywhere with the Security Cameras.

@TheBioshockHub I can't wait for the livestream!

No problem Nice video very interesting because I study English and you help me thank you

Life's been quite busy but I've been trying to keep up with you man and damn I'm proud of you, your subscriber count has been growing damn 👌

How did youtube screw you over?

@@Tremmuh Sometimes videos don't hit subboxes or notifications won't send out. I think the 2 days I tried to upload this, KZfaq was being buggy. A lot of my friends were having the same issue as well.

The plot twist is legendary

It failed because it was unrestricted capitalism.

I'll be honest, you just made my day so much better with this one single comment. Thank you so much and I hope you have a great rest of your day/night. Thank you.

It's a shame honestly. But like you said about the ending, I absolutely agree with that.

@@TheBioshockHub thanks, if Ryan pay attention to the side effects of the ADAM and find a cure, maybe Rapture wouldn't fallen so badly.

@@TheBioshockHub This is a story of what happens when science is left unchecked and Ryan failed to deal with this problem.

@@TheBioshockHub There was another reasons for Ryan's downfall was that at the lighthouse the sign said No gods or kings, only man and there is a statue of him, showing his hypocrisy. He does act like like he was above everyone else. When the problem came, all he had to do was act and deal with the problem before it gets worse, but he didn't showing his arrogance. He had an off button at the palm of his hands, but he never push it. Ryan made Rapture to escape the parasite, but he never understood that the parasite was human nature. He most of all never understood human nature. He never truly ran away from the problem, it came with him in Rapture. His death at the end showed, he failed to deal with the problem.

Dr. Manhattan says it best: I can change almost anything but not human nature. Ryan was screwed the moment he created Rapture and became no better than a parasite. If anything, his decision to destroy Rapture would have been the best way to deal with the parasites of his city

@@garrisonjones1827 agreed

If spliced-up nonsense is something you wish, ANDREW RYAN!!!

Yup

Coming from the dude with the anarcho-communist pfp.

@@liquidbismuth1044 well it isn't now currently as I type this

And it is so much more successful and better than Anarcho communism

@@radioactiveranch9637 Eh anarcho-communism has never existed, and we've had governments pretty damn close to anarcho-capitalist in the past, it usually includes slavery to some degree, and workers living in shitty, disease ridden corporate-run towns or tenements. Yeah naw my guy, it really doesn't work. Furthermore, the Soviets weren't communist, like, at all, communism by definition requires zero state, and the USSR definitely had one, it also requires the abolition of money, which again did not happen, and democratic rule with zero hierarchies, which it was a "democracy" in the sense some people voted, but it was high up party members, not the people, and it definitely was a hierarchal society. Lenin and the crew were a bunch of fucking sociopaths who used the guise of socialism to assume power (they were the minority communist movement btw in Russia, even though they named themselves the minority, and they seized control of a somewhat democratic government that had been installed after the fall of the Tsar), but very quickly abandoned the liberation of the working class, instead of installing an oligarchy not all that dissimilar from the monarchy previously in terms of the concentration of power. Communism, and I know I may sound like every other leftist, by its very definition, has never been tried. Instead what we've seen routinely is people utilizing a guise of socialism to assume power, only to distort the fuck out of socialism, or actual socialists assuming power, only to be met with international sanctions or a coup funded by the west (The CIA has a dirty ass track record of toppling democratic governments when they elect socialists, even when they're not democracies but air-quoted, but rather, legitimate democracies). So yeah, anarcho-capitalism, is a shitshow, and communism, let alone anarcho-communism, has never been attempted or been given a fair chance at all. Signed, a former objectivist who sucked Ayn Rand's dick and now wishes that cunt never was born, with her weird-ass fucking rape apologia for a narcissistic, sociopathic, piece of shit (seriously her work is legitimately disgusting). Also she died on government assistance, the fucking irony lmao.

@@tomfooleryjohn6176 Parasite

WhimsicallyAltered I think he did it to go out on his own terms, and help his son realize he was being controlled, even with the ‘puzzle room.’ Maybe he gave Jack a chance to break free and it failed, too.

@@mikamartin2675 whooooaaaa that really means something, but not the going out on his terms..

“His own terms” Dude got bashed in the head with a golf club

Awesome! What're you getting?

It’s a half sleeve of the lighthouse and the words going down saying A MAN CHOOSES A SLAVE OBEYS and under that I’m having 2 needles (opposite ends) shoot out ADAM and EVE and make the 5 (even though there’s 6) notes from the main theme (red and blue) and under that a Big Daddy and a Little Sister with the Big Daddy putting an umbrella over the Little Sister. Under that will be the three linked chain but more badass haha.

Eventually

It definitely would've happened either way in my opinion.

Rapture was doomed to fall due to Ryan's own flawed philosophy. Objectivism, capitalism, and individualism all lead to misery, division, civil war, poverty, and self destruction. Hell Ryan's unregulated free market capitalist system is what allowed fontaine to become filthy rich and build himself an empire almost as powerful as Ryan's. Ryan also condemned the poor to die which is why many poor people flocked to fontaine home for the poor. Ryan became a tyrannical dictator when he realized to late that objectivism is what led to the civil war.

@@Jew-Gi-Oh_419 I believe Communism and Collectivism lead to misery, division, civil war, poverty, and self destruction. Capitalism and Individualism value the individuals decisions and choices as opposed to beliefs that force others to conform to the ways of Communism and Collectivism. An unregulated free market does need regulations, but governments interfering and bailing out large corporations is far from unregulated and that is the current system in the United States. Capitalism has done great things to life hundreds of millions out of poverty and it leads fulfillment with life. There are not many ideologies that I believe to be more dangerous than the collectivist-Marxist ideologies. Equality of outcome is not a good thing because not everyone is equal, not everyone has the same skills, interestes, and abilities. The simple fact is that one idea values the individuals choices as opposed to them being forced to make certain choices. I really enjoy this game but it makes Andrew Ryan a straw man of Capitalism. A man who doesn't care about the poor and thinks that everything should be unregulated and privatized. This is something that does not accurately reflect the views of those who support Capitalism and Individualism.

If it hadn’t been Fontaine, I believe Rapture would have fallen regardless. Maybe not when it did, but eventually. If not Fontaine, then perhaps Sofia Lamb, or the insanity from the ADAM intake alone. Or perhaps if not for Fontaine, then someone else may have taken advantage of the same things Fontaine did. It’s a shame, but it definitely would have happened regardless.

@@anunknownentity1637 you should actually read what you wrote. It is actually disgusting.

I think it's because I only have had one opportunity to network with someone, and I'm grateful for it. But I'd need help trying to get other KZfaqr's attention to possibly work together.

Do you happen to know any Last of Us or Bioshock content creators?

@@TheBioshockHub : Not yet. Although I came here from Captain Eggcellent Bioshock easter egg videos I have to admit. It's hard to find channels that are devoted to the series and are still uploading today despite the first game being a decade old.

Soo... he's a capitalist. You're supposed to disagree with him by design

@@HeyJinx Capitalism is a tool to be employed by state just like socialism or any other -ism which keeps its occupants safe from external and internal perils. That is function of state. I think nowadays he might be be called Sovereign Citizen.

And by stifling competition, censorship and ignoring basic laws of economics he was nothing short of a parasite. Rapture was failure doomed to happen and his blind selfishness only hastened the process. His only "philosophy" was imemyselfminemy and he even refused to accept that somebody was better than he was at game he founded.

:)

His real name is Andrey Raynovsky, and Belarus had not been Lithuanian for over a hundred years and Russians enforced their culture and language in Belarus which remain dominant there to this day. So I think Ryan was most likely Russian or maybe Russian of the Jewish descent. And he altered his name so that it sounds more American which was supposed to mean his disappointment in his past life and the culture he no longer belonged to.

I appreciate the offer my friend

Indeed.

It's credited in each description of each lore video I do. I've said that this is where I get the information before. No secret.