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Another blow to the media literate people, as more fallout writers say that it's not about capitalism 
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They won't be able to recover from this
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I'm saving this. Knowing Redditors this will come in handy when the next season of Fallout comes out.
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I feel like the only person who thought that show was meh. VaultTecs motivations don't really make sense, Lucy is a bit boring, the whole "turn the power back on to a city 200 years in ruin" is literally r-slurred. The sheer number of fires such a thing would start is insane and now what? You've made the city into target number 1 for every single major faction in the region.
I liked the ghoul tho
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The plot was pretty bad but I loved the scenes in the vault. Nice costumes and sets and interesting vault story until the end. Then they decided to turn it into an origin story of the whole fallout universe even though the small scale stuff has always been the interesting part
I have low expectations for season 2 :(
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I dropped it as soon as I hit the pooner
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You mean
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it was a she-
for sure
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Who was the pooner? Ir's been a hot minute since I watched (and I mainly focused on the ghoul while repeating "no homo" to myself)
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The chick who cut up her leg so the BIPOC could be the knight or whatever in the first couple episodes.
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I guess the representation in this show is realistic after all
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I forget she existed lmao
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yeah honestly the character isn't a big deal but I've just had it with wokeshit to the point where someone called her "they" and I just sighed and turned that shit off.
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"Bro it's over, yhey made Fallout woke."
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I did that with the new (ish) Vikings show. A black woman suddenly shows up as one of the Viking leaders like 20 minutes into the first episode. I've seen enough.
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fallout is p-p-proppa sloppa although twisted m-metal was the superior game show
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Summary of the scene where VaultTec decides to nuke the world so they can make money off the apocalypse:
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Everyone in the Wasteland knows that Vaulters deserve to get r*ped and turned into breeding pigs. Lucy having a whole butt adventure and she doesn't get r*ped in the Wasteland is unrealistic.
The Ghoul is cool. Hanpeepee from FO4 and The Ghoul from the show should meet and become best buddies.
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Your entire mod list is from LoversLab I can already tell
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Incorrect.
It is mostly gun mods, lore friendly replacers, a godawful amount of outfits and only like 18 LoversLab mods.
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I also watched it for the plot.
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I think the Ghoul was the only redeeming quality of the show.
Once again writers made the "bad guy" more relatable lmao
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I love all the writers trying to paint the nuclear apocalypse as a good thing. It's a huge red flag to how ideologically bankrupt the writers have become.
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They want an apocalypse because their own lives are such failures and shit that nuclear ruin would be a step up for them.
Even tho they'd be vaporized
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Don't forget that they would have been the first to die, so they can't even escape to the post apoc world.
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I really liked the bad guy, his plan of "Sit out the war on a stockpile of resources, raise a generation of obedient slaves" made a lot of sense, it made sense why he killed his wife (but I think nuking shady sands was still dumb)
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That was the case when it came out, it felt like people were completly blind to the glaring flaws. There was nothing but praise to be heard, but more critical takes on it popped up over time. Including my only ever effortpost
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VaultTecs motivation never made sense and they were never meant to be a serious villain
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It felt like the game became more critical of capitalism under Bethesda, because it wasn't really until Fo3 where they went completely all in with all the 1950s retro shit. The first two games were way more focused on the new societies that popped up after the bombs fell.
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i-i-i never understood how fo3 critiques capitalism. i-i-ive played it so much and never got that vibe. u-u-unless it's just 1950 americana b-bad
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Surely this novelty doesn't wear transparent-thin within two comments.
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This is such a Reddit comment.
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No, you're a reddit comment
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Well at least I'm not a chud!
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w-what do you mean??
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It does feel like it's more cynical then anything else. Like if it has taken place in China, it would depict communism the same way.
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None of the Bethesda fallouts critique capitalism. In fact in new Vegas the only soyciety with any quality of life is Mr houses strip which is expressly capitalist coded. Everything else is varying levels of barbarism. And whenever you do come across some nu-soyciety grounded in pluralistic ideals they generally end up being some kind of cult or scam or science experiment.
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Yeah I would say the games plots themselves are not critiques of capitalism, but before the great war, it does seem like corporations like vault-tech essentially did fricked up shit whenever they wanted. Classic "consequences of unfettered capitalism" shit
When redditors think of the game as anti capitalism, I think they're mostly thinking about how America prewar is depicted.
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The NCR is a capitalist usa 2.0, we just don't get to see the territory they have full control over because the mojave is a frontier to them.
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Yeah NCR seems like a corrupt late stage liberal capitalist soyciety whereas the strip seems like a libertarian capitalist soyciety where the market decided Mr House was le ebic benevolent monarch trickle downer
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I do think that Bethesda's written themselves into a corner with how somehow none of the societies they've introduced are able to build society up in any meaningful way, resulting in people just squatting in shitty junktowns +300 years after the bombs fell.
In fallout 1 most villages were newly built. Bit weird.
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the NCR and Institute seemed to be doing okay till you frick it up
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IIRC Todd Howard likes the wasteland/ruined filled aesthetics of the games and that's pretty much why they just depict everything as a wasteland with people living in squalor lol.
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New Vegas isn't Bethesda, it's made by the same people as the first 2 games
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Ok nerd
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exactly r-r-right? the o-only capitalism of d-dc wastelands is the capitalism of s-s-savages because the country t-t-they all grew irradiated in used a fiat currency and left massive e-evidence of it everywhere
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I hated Bethesda basically killing the idea of progress in the world. No new societies can form, nobody can rebuild, everybody has to live like it's Portland and never contemplate picking up a hammer
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When they try to come up with new things it's not even new societies, just ridiculous institutions like the railroad and the institute in fallout 4.
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Morrowind was an allegory for globohomo destroying le based ashlander talichads and coopting Indoril bin Nerevar for their own (((cyrodilic))) ends
Oblivion was a critique of mercantilism as hinted at by the death of the emperor, while simultaneously criticizing immigration via the implied invasion of a bucolic European setting by Maherunes Dagonesh sending smelly Dremoridian hordes through the laxly policed oblivion gates.
The shivering isles was an ode to PCP.
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I remember a book about a dude fricking a lizard. Thats all i took away from it like a normal person.
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The lusty argonian maid, and that fruity neighbour Crassius Curio who makes you wear a dress to talk to him
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Yeah they censored the book with the girl getting fricked by the cat boi in those later games
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Tim Cain is honestly back tracking hard with this. A year or two ago he loved having these reddit grifters in his audience and when talking to the lead artist for fallout Leonard boyarski would specifically mention anti-capitalist critique as a major element in fallout and even the games Troika worked on.
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Wasn't Chris the guy who helped with New Vegas, what'd he say? I know redditors like pointing at him going on a commie podcast as proof he supports Marx and would be their future commissar
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Chris Avellone was almost MeToo'd a couple years ago too (tho I am pretty sure the it is pretty much confirmed that the two foids who accused him were lying) so I am surprised that reddit commies still like him.
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Didn't Chris successfully sue that b-word?
Edit: dude lmao
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Snapshots:
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Hey there kiddo, seems like the slop media you are consuming features a powerful entity in a realistic modern setting portrayed as a corporation and therefore the message delivered by the author is nothing other than capitalism is bad and you are a gibbering r-slur if you find any degree of nuance or even slightly disagree with my analysis. Ignore the fact that nearly any videogame plot is merely a contrivance to create a world where their theme and gameplay make sense. I am a certified media literacy expert. I know this because my opinion invariably matches every comment on the official subreddits.
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