TIL that bio shock infinite’s Zachary Comstock is based on real life person Anthony Comstock and the setting Columbia is based on the world Colombian exposition (Chicago worlds fair) where he tried to have the belly dancers deported.

Dude bragged of getting 4,000 obscenity convictions and 15 suicides as a volunteer mail worker where he basically just read peoples mail all day.

@Fuego I've maintained for a while that a big failure of Infinite is that its framed as satirical when uhh the US was in a whole bunch of ways worse than what's portrayed in the game.

@Fuego also that, but that's already been way more commented on.

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