There’s a conspiracy theory (I believe sort of) that a series of international art heists of the mid 2010s were banked rolled by the PRC to return Chinese artifacts taken during the century of humiliation.
Libs and chuds thinks it portrays the PRC as sinister and secretive not based AF which it would be if true.
I tend to think the professional robbers know that representatives from PRC will buy them and store them for the future, but not that they’re actively commissioning the heists.
I choose to believe Xi Jinping personally cut a glass roofpane with a comically large diamond, was lowered into a minefield of lasers to perform outrageous gymnastic moves, and swapped a jade antique with a bag of mahjong tiles to trick pressure plates, all before silently escaping and flying back to China in a waiting J-36.
I wonder if that could be wealthy Chinese people wanting an artifact for their private collections?
this article basically claims that https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-chinese-art-heist
I’ve heard this and I want a mission: impossible style movie about it so bad.
Sly Cooper and the gang would be proud. Garrett the master thief would be proud. Styx the goblin would be proud. Joker and The Phantom Thieves would be proud. The Payday gang would be proud. I love that gaming has such a long history of thieves being the good guy.
(I’m not even reading the comments cause I already know what they are)
Payday gang probably would have just sold them at a massive upcharge back to african nations but the spirit is there
Payday Gang now includes H3H3 so they’d probably sell them to the US or Canada tbh.
They really made this lmao
True! and for some reason there would be a big shootout during the sale (with a surprisingly good soundtrack )
Epic Games will find a way to make this racist
Cool idea, probably would be fun as fuck to go around the world, if it is co-op then it would be amazing to play together
I regret reading the comments.
I have some experience with this topic in real life and boy howdy would some of the people involved in the reclamation here get angry at the words “artifact”. It probably makes sense for the game, it seems light hearted and all which is cool, but a surprising number of those “artifacts” are just human remains which are neither displayed - guess that’d be macabre - but also we’re just not giving them back.
Point being; the idea that these artifacts and actual human remains were looted is an absolutely fringe position. Sure that comment section goes wildly fucking racist with it but I don’t think most people’d disagree with it if phrased just a tiny bit nicer
I’m not a gamer but this might tempt me
something made me read this in the same cadence as tupac saying “i aint a killer but dont push me”
Ain’t a gamer but don’t tempt me
Gonna pound these mountain dews until they’re empty
(denial is a river beat - not pac)
What a cool concept. Is it Epic Games store exclusive?
There’s a Steam listing and the trailer says it’ll be on whatever the current Xbox is
Nothing quite like internet comment sections to reaffirm the need for
reeducation campspits.That’s badass
Game sounds cool. Heists are a really under-utilized video game conceit - the heists in GTA are the best part of that game, then there’s Payday 1&2 and… is that it? I think there was an indie game too where each character had a special ability, but I can’t remember the name.
There’s a title coming out next year called Den of Wolves, which is literally a cyberpunk-themed Payday game. It’s also made by the same devs who made GTFO and ironically used to work on Payday 1&2.
There is a heist game coming from one of the guys responsible for immersive sims. The downside though is it will be multiplayer.
The indie game you are thinking of is probably Monaco.
Monaco was very fun, even with randoms
ya im surprised there aren’t more games that revolve around heists, and executing them perfectly could be a great risk/reward system
What makes something African futurist? Is it just a vision of the future that puts African styles and cultures forward instead of sanfransokyo?
Probably gonna be fuckin up some brits
since this is specifically Africanfuturist instead of Afrofuturist, which has an african diaspora/USA focusCool beans, seems interesting.
It’s pretty gross how ignored a fucking giant arse slice of the world drenched in history and cultures is.
It’s pretty gross how ignored a fucking giant arse slice of the world drenched in history and cultures is.
I recall reading an article by a black fiction writer who said that among the difficulties facing black authors is where their fiction is even placed in a bookstore; he (she? Can’t recall who the author was) said their book was placed in the ‘black interest’ section, meaning their entirely fictional, sci-fi novel was sharing the same space with books about Martin Luther King. Most likely novels regarding Africanfuturism would also be placed in the same section and most wouldn’t even know they exist.
Sounds exactly like how in music “R&B” is just the record label’s way of saying ‘black people music’.
Ooof that sucks. I guess that is a bit of a tricky one in the bookstore. On one hand it’s just fiction, on the other you might want to specifically seek out work by black authors that is explicitly including themes of black experienced or cultures in fiction.
Getting pigeonholed in the latter though just means you don’t get seen by anyone seeking you out. Probably being in 2 places in a physical store would be good. Or a store just rotating through highlighting different authorial perspectives.
I guess that is a bit of a tricky one in the bookstore.
if you’re shelving a few copies of a book put some in each section
Probably being in 2 places in a physical store would be good.
sorry i just woke up
How is this different from afrofuturism? The same premise but a different aesthetic?
Africanfuturism as a sub-category of science fiction that is (…) rooted in the African continent.
Afrofuturist (…) has an african diaspora/USA focus
TIL
Not usa culture centered it sounds like.
similar premise but built upon different historical experiences
Those comments are fucking vile. Game sounds cool though.
When is this expected to release?
