#I don’t even know if anyone will see this. I haven’t engaged in the d:bh fandom since the game came out

[existentialcrisis-9-5]

I haven’t touched Detroit: Become Human in years, and frankly I won’t go into dept with it bc I want to forget enough to play the game with as clear a head as I can.

But I can’t help thinking of a missed opportunity. I, along with many others, think the political message they included in the game was not the right one. But I think the game had room for a political message, not about idk the weird subtext about race and slavery (tho in fairness, I feel like another storyline/game set in the D:BH world wouldn’t be amiss in covering it), but about ableism.

I mean, how many autistic people get called robots daily? Or consider the current capitalistic hellscape that drops a person to their doom the moment they’re not 100% fit and able to work themselves to the bone. It ties into the humanity of the androids, as well as relating to current world issues, AND it’s relevant to the world they were trying to build, about how androids are so much better than humans so humans get replaced.

They could’ve explored how the moment an Android isn’t operating at 100% efficiency, people with the money might just drop them and get a new one, about what makes a human a person, and how we don’t really know, so how can we know if an Android is or isn’t a person? And shouldn’t we treat them with respect regardless?

Maybe someone’s talked about this before but goddamn. The opportunity they missed.