i have not even finished the first episode of the Best Friends Play LP of Detroit: Become Human and David Cage has already made several mind-boggling, immersion shattering mistakes in his world building:
david cage believes that in androids that look exactly like humans will come to exist and be accepted by society
david cage believes that it would take five years in this universe before androids are required by law to have identifying characteristics like glowing circles on their temples and glowing clothes
david cage believes that a company could somehow completely dehumanize these fully human looking androids to the general populace in this amount of time, resulting in literally everybody calling them “it” instead of treating them like they’re alive despite the fact that people have been doing this with roombas since 2002
david cage believes that a company would be able to sell a completely servile human-looking android that looks like a black person and somehow not face intense, company reputation destroying backlash against this
david cage believes that androids being forced to sit in the back of the bus would be immediately accepted by society and not questioned at all, even though the civil rights movement and segregation are widely covered by public school’s history classes
david cage believes that paper will no longer exist and that all paper will be replaced by single-use disposable touchscreen devices. these devices include magazines, bills, and job applications
to repeat, david cage fucking believes that we’ll use snail mail to send eachother ipads instead of just using email or FUCKING PAPER
david cage expects us to believe that an android would only cost 8,000 USD in the year 2032
david cage expects us to believe that an android is a totally affordable item for a crack addict that lives in a building so dilapidated that it could barely be called a house
david cage expects us to believe that aforementioned crackhead beat the living hell out of his android to the point where he told the store “she got hit by a car” and the store just blindly believed this and repaired her free of charge despite the fact that phone companies now won’t even replace your broken screen for free
david cage expects us to believe that an android with a constant internet connection would not see this crack addict smoking crack and not log it or take any form of action to prevent or report it
david cage expects us to believe that this android that is very clearly able to produce detailed psychological breakdowns of humans at a glance would look at a child under the age of 10, see every single textbook sign of physical abuse, see the father (aforementioned crack addict) verbally abusing her while she cowering under a table, and not take any preventative action to ensure the child’s safety despite the fact that she HAS AN A CONSTANT INTERNET CONNECTION AND IS ABLE TO WORDLESSLY DO THINGS LIKE ORDER SHIT OFF OF AMAZON
david cage expects us to believe that the world detroit: become human takes place in has a 40% unemployment rate. the lowest the unemployment rate in the US has ever been was 25% during the Great Depression.
David Cage expects us to believe that a 40% unemployment rate looks like “maybe five homeless people in a town square tops and an angry crowd of ten peaceful protesters that are easily dispersed by a single police officer” and not “rioting in the streets with every single authority figure being drawn and quartered by the angered masses”
I haven’t even finished the episode yet. There’s probably more. I keep pausing it because I have to stop and talk about it to prevent myself from losing my fucking mind.
