Having seen a documentary about the production the designers wanted the game to be about “letting go of Old World Blues”. All the factions cling to the past, to systems that led them to where they are today. I take it they were a bit better than regular US radlibs, which is why there isn’t any left-bashing, but they probably see communism as part of that old world blues too. It would also go against their goal if there was an obvious “good” ending.

That said it would have done wonders for the political awakening of a bunch of people if there was one. Or, at least, if it was made clear the courier was likewise constrained by their environment, so the reason a post-post-apocalyptic spartacist movement isn’t possible is because the courier and like individuals can’t think like that. The red scare has long tendrils.
Or at least a yes-man ending that wasn’t going all “great man” theory about the courier, where everything revolves around them and their presence.

Look the only critique I can leverage at new Vegas is that there isn’t a communist or anarchist ending where the courier unites the disparate communities and makes something that lasts until after the courier dies. I want to be the Stalin of the wasteland.

Edit: After getting the Lee Kuan Yew speeches on my Instagram reels I also realise Houses “give me 20 years” speech is taken from there. The people behind the game were very politically aware.
Also apparently fallout 1, 2 and new Vegas are based on a tabletop game the designers played? Arcade Gannon was Josh Sawyer’s character

Though, I don’t blame the writer.

I’m convinced they did it in purpose to highlight what a dumbass Caesar is. He verbatim says dialectics makes it inevitable that the NCR is destroyed by him, which is just so incredibly stupid. If you read enough of Hegel to write Caesar talking about Hegel as he does, then you’ve read enough to know that would be about the dumbest you could say.

Crowley managed to pull it off too

If I’m a sex wizard then I want to be remembered

I wish. He was apparently pretty good at stopping Alexei from dying from hemophilia, so he must have had something going.
I’d say he’s the real world Skarsnik

He did tell the doctors not to give Alexei aspirin, so he did stop that bleeding out a bunch

Sisyphus but it’s the laundy

This “250 year thing” makes me feel the same way as when I play new Vegas and Caesar say he will destroy the NCR because of dialectics. THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS YOU FUCK

The 250 year timeframe is made up and even if it wasn’t the US couldn’t realistically be described as an empire until some time in the 1900’s. Until then it was “just” a genocidal colonial power like the others. I guess you could make an argument that it became an empire around the time of Teddy or the monroe doctrine, but I wouldnt

I’ve just started stealing stuff. I finally own an espresso-maker

The Watchmen series was pretty good

I would imagine there are some written documents, not that that is what decides what territory belongs to whom, but still

No it’s a meme

Probably not half as exhausting as being as obtuse as you

What an odd thing to write

Libs 12-year old maladjusted kids

Resorting to chauvinism whenever someone disagrees with them.

Read a book

Also Taiwan is a staging ground for a US invasion, claims sovereignty over China, has it’s airspace go far over mainland China, and so much more. Somehow China not being a fan of this is the same as when the United States coups another country because it elected someone that doesn’t align 100% with us policy.

Is it possible for more than two things being true at once? Is it in fact possible that reducing everything to “both sides bad” isn’t some supreme insight, but instead just a mantra that allows libs to support the status quo of us imperialism?

There used to be strong anti-EU movements on the left, but they’ve all died out. It’s a shame

Brexit/ukip is/was an independence movement of sorts and pretty shit.