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Me: Do you know what happens to the sewage in the city? I saw Rod Fergusson retweeting somebody asking what happened?

Levine: When guys on my team retweet, I'm like, oh my god, now people are going to ask me about this. Well… Ken Levine knows everything that happens!

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Me: We can skip…

Levine: I guess two things can happen to it. What happens on a ship or what happens on an airplane.

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Me: I guess it depends on how the Founders are feeling about the people below.

Levine: They wouldn't so much care. [laughs]

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Oh, and here's one more bonus bit. There's been some talk about how well the BioShock brand is known by the kind of fratboys who help make Call of Duty popular. Levine says that any outreach to that constituency did not have much affect at all on the creation of the game. It seems like more of a marketing thing.

Levine hopes they'll get it—maybe embrace Infinite the way so many people did the similarly distinct and offbeat Inception and The Matrix: "It's not exactly something that pulls its punches or is trying to pander to a mass audience," Levine said of his new BioShock. "It's a pretty strange bird. But I believe that people who think strange birds are unappealing to a broad audience are underestimating the world."