Tong was right.

>>713506640 (OP)
>destroy the DNS server
>"we will live in villages now!"
No, he was brain damaged from the vax at that point in the story.

>>713506640 (OP)
Sort of. The world was a lot better when to access the internet you needed a computer and the knowledge to use it.

>>713506640 (OP)
this mudda fukka interrupted me when i had my life on the line sneaking through a video rental shop to get to an informant, alert troops 1 ft away, to chide me 'you could get those so much cheaper in hong kong'. gtfo of my headset little scammy bastard. enjoy your villages with no more american movies to pirate

>>713506640 (OP)
What’s up with the Deus ex threads lately? Is it because of the ps5 release?

>>713508539
25th anniversary yesterday

>>713506640 (OP)
In the context of the game he's wrong but in the context of real life, society would improve vastly if the internet stopped working for a few years

>>713508589
>society would improve vastly if the internet stopped working for a few years
I grew up on the internet and make my money off it. I sincerely believe that you're right.

God I love this game. I wish we could get another game with writing this fun and crazy yet insightful and gameplay this in-depth.

>>713508640
Until it was re-invented, and then we'd be right back where we left off.

Tong ending is the most brain-dead ending, right next to keeping the same faggots in power that started this mess. The only correct choice is merging with Helios.

You would need a dictatorial religious mandate to make it work, or else you're just kicking the can down the road to a future JC and a future Helios.

>>713508741
Society requires maintenance just like any other system. Sometimes that maintenance means blowing up the internet every hundred years.

>>713508987
and then you have the future JC blow up the future Helios.

>>713508741
Forcing the prisoners out of their cave and blowing it up goes a long way, when they dig a new one they may find themselves hesitating

>>713509081
IW doesn't exist

>>713509081
Only in the sense of a MMI, it might just as easily be a future Bob Page.

I take it you've heard of the naughty and nice list?
As an elf in my position I find it easy to add names to that list...

>>713509248
Some say Santa Claus is just a story—a relic of childhood conditioning. But a global figure who sees all, judges your morality and delivers consequences overnight? That’s not a myth. That’s surveillance under a nicer name.

Childhood is merging with Helios.
Teenage is Tracer Tong ending.
Adulthood is acknowledging that the first ending is techno-communism, the second is anarcho-syndicalism and as an adult you now have rent to pay and for that you need the system and the masters to rule everything so that they can then pay you a salary, so you can pay your rent.

>>713509609
>I need the system in place so I can keep being a slave for the system

>>713509609
>first ending is techno-communism
No?
It's techno dictatorship.

>>713509753
>dictatorship
Yes.
aka. communism.

How the fuck did the internet become centralized at area 51 in DX again?
I was so immersed in the game that i didnt even stop to computer how unfeasible/retarded that sounded

>>713509848
the echelon system. In the DX timeline when they switched from early DSL to faster internet the system they used was echelon. It was billed as a protocol for faster internet, but really it was a way to make surveillance easier. There were five successive versions of echelon with Daedalus being the final one. That's why all the web addresses in Deus Ex have Daedalus at the start.

Do you guys think a deus ex movie going through all/most of the first games' story would be cool?
And which ending would you pick? Im thinking Dark Age or Helios would make better cinematography. Or maybe it would be cool if the viewer could choose somehow, like these books where you make choices

>>713510675
No. Video game movies always butcher the source material, at best they make decent slop. Deus Ex does not work as slop.

shills die in a fire

>>713510910
what shills? Did something happen?

>>713506640 (OP)
He really was. It's funny how I used to think this ending was completely retarded and nobody would actually pick it, but if you told me I could get rid of the internet now I'd do it without hesitation.

>>713509848
Not sure how it happened in DX.

But it's sort of happening in the real life right now.
The net used to be a billion individual small internet sites, services and shit but now it has all conglomerated into to Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. All traffic goes through servers, sites and/or infrastructure that is owned by them. They already basically hold the keys to the internet and decide who gets to go on the net, or not. The internet traffic "standards" that online software needs to comply to are largely decided by them, with the government's blessing.
I think it was last year when the ideas of them possibly requiring the rejection of all "insecure" traffic coming from home user Linux machines, and internet-browsers not owned by the big players, was bouncing around... And how they could've done it if they just ignored the PR hit.

Who knows, maybe a couple of decades down the road they'll congolmerate even more. Maybe they'll co-operate to establish a single entity that controls all of the world's internet traffic, and then become the number 1 outsources of global surveillance resources and services for the government(s).

>>713510675
warren said once there was a deus ex script floating around, and that it was pretty good