The game where you could zap children to death with a raygun getting offended by a CEO who’s actions sentenced untold scores to death getting his comeuppance? Oh yeah, it’s reddit bootlicker time.
It’s kind of funny that the canonical ending of Fallout 1 was
The Brotherhood of Steel helps the other human outposts drive the mutant armies away with minimal loss of life, on both sides of the conflict. The advanced technology of the Brotherhood is slowly reintroduced into New California, with little disruption or chaos. The Brotherhood wisely remains out of the power structure, and becomes a major research and development house
And in Fallout 2 they’re barely in it. Only in the late game giving you some cool stuff to use against the Enclave (implants, power armour).
I wish factions had been allowed to fizzle out and new ones arise, just like how Fallout 1 had the Union of Atomic Workers who were already pretty much wiped out by the time you enter the scene.
The killing kids in Fallout 1 and 2 is complicated. Because I think the edgiest people do it for a joke.
But I remember one time when I was playing the game when I was probably too young for it, I had a random encounter with Raiders attacking farmers. I swooped into rescue the farmers and as we moped up, one of my companions let burst with an SMG, missed a raider and killed a child instantly. Then the enraged farmers, men and women, turned and starting attacking us with their fists, and my other companions started gunning them down, as I genuinely panicked. In a cold sweat I looked over their dead bodies and reloaded my save.
And like I still remember that now, as a powerful random moment in a videogame.
agreed, but the extent to which is mind blowing for me since part of me was hoping that americans were getting better at understanding why our situations suck after the election and this sort of response is making it crystal clear that we’re at least generations away from that kind of understanding; i just hope that their efforts to solidify ukraine’s leverage against trump or our unwavering support for isreal doesn’t push us into ww3 before that happens.
That hasn’t been my experience looking on insta, youtube comments and twitter, it seemed like at least 80% celebratory. And in person, coworkers were talking about it almost gleefully. Not everyone condoning necessarily but the general attitude seemed to be “well it seems like a natural response” and many comments of stories about people’s personal experiences with horrible insurance companies.
i switched to tiktok and got the same thing you did; i think that there’s a generational divide since the people i follow on the other platforms are from my generation while tiktok and lemmy are not.
The game where you could zap children to death with a raygun getting offended by a CEO who’s actions sentenced untold scores to death getting his comeuppance? Oh yeah, it’s reddit bootlicker time.
Remember, these are the same people who think the Enclave are cool
We need to take video games away from G*mers. They can’t be trusted around them.
Every time they miss clearly stated text, we take a hammer to their gaming hand
Or the Brotherhood of Steel for that matter. Then again I guess its not surprising given their IRL interest in techno fascism…
It’s funny because my foundational memory of the BoS is getting sent to The Glow on a suicide mission
They made a powerful enemy that day
It’s kind of funny that the canonical ending of Fallout 1 was
And in Fallout 2 they’re barely in it. Only in the late game giving you some cool stuff to use against the Enclave (implants, power armour).
I wish factions had been allowed to fizzle out and new ones arise, just like how Fallout 1 had the Union of Atomic Workers who were already pretty much wiped out by the time you enter the scene.
The killing kids in Fallout 1 and 2 is complicated. Because I think the edgiest people do it for a joke.
But I remember one time when I was playing the game when I was probably too young for it, I had a random encounter with Raiders attacking farmers. I swooped into rescue the farmers and as we moped up, one of my companions let burst with an SMG, missed a raider and killed a child instantly. Then the enraged farmers, men and women, turned and starting attacking us with their fists, and my other companions started gunning them down, as I genuinely panicked. In a cold sweat I looked over their dead bodies and reloaded my save.
And like I still remember that now, as a powerful random moment in a videogame.
“but I liked [redacting] the [prostitute character] it’s totally different!!!”
the amount of support that this ass hat gets online is astounding to me; why do they like him so much?
I don’t follow, who are you talking about?
social media outside of lemmy has a LOT more people condemning than condoning the assassin.
That’s disappointing but not surprising for anglos.
agreed, but the extent to which is mind blowing for me since part of me was hoping that americans were getting better at understanding why our situations suck after the election and this sort of response is making it crystal clear that we’re at least generations away from that kind of understanding; i just hope that their efforts to solidify ukraine’s leverage against trump or our unwavering support for isreal doesn’t push us into ww3 before that happens.
That hasn’t been my experience looking on insta, youtube comments and twitter, it seemed like at least 80% celebratory. And in person, coworkers were talking about it almost gleefully. Not everyone condoning necessarily but the general attitude seemed to be “well it seems like a natural response” and many comments of stories about people’s personal experiences with horrible insurance companies.
i switched to tiktok and got the same thing you did; i think that there’s a generational divide since the people i follow on the other platforms are from my generation while tiktok and lemmy are not.