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Cake day: September 13th, 2019

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  • I once read an article comparing the number of active users on my space with those of pandemics. So basically social media is like a disease that has now reached global saturation and will only go down from here. Good riddance. It only served to enrich scammers influencers, control public opinion and invade the privacy of everyone. However, if chatrooms become the new way people share information, than this presents new challenges to the left. As spreading misinformation will be even easier, but at the same time, censoring leftist opinions will be much harder.





  • I know the NCR has plenty of problems, but the one that seems to come up the most is taxes.

    Sorry but the West vs East trope is just to much to ignore, if the NCR is the US which it clearly is, then the Legion is either the USSR or China. There’s just no other option.

    Well I never said House was a good guy, it’s just that the NCR is way to benevolent in comparison. I think it’s not balanced.

    Edit: I remembered that Marcus says, the Legion will fail because “Muh human nature”. Ring any bells?


  • Yes, but the devs are clearly biased. The NCR which represents the US is portrayed in too much of a positive light. Their imperialism is presented in a distorted way and many times as something benign. The biggest downside of the NCR that we hear people complaining is “taxes”, this gives me “taxation is theft” vibes. Meanwhile the Legion is just god awful, the more you find out about them, the worse they get. There’s just not any competition between them. One is good the other is evil. The NCR is the West and the Legion is the East, which means West = Good and East = Bad.

    This is just unnecessary fascist propaganda drilled into the game. The East is represented as a bunch of barbarians who are coming to destroy western civilization. The Legion even employs tactics of throwing bodies at the enemy without regards for their lives, which is something Russia has been accused of doing in the Ukrainian war. And of course, the Legion’s system is so horrible, so atrocious, that no one could possibly want to live in it. This is how communism is portrayed to Western masses. A system so horrible, that anything is preferable to it. So the barbaric pedophilic eastern hordes represent communism, and the minor flawed republic represents liberal democracy. This is a disgusting level of bias.

    As a side note, the Arcade companion quest is just a bunch of fascist apologia. The quest tries too hard, to humanize a bunch of psychopathic fascist ex-military. But hey, at least they’re not the Communists Legion, am I right?

    Excluding the independent ending, I think there’s a case to be made for Mr. House. Not that I’m a fan of him, he’s an embellished version of Elon Musk. But House represents the national bourgeoise while the Legion and NCR don’t. House seems to be focused mainly on Vegas, while he has no love for Freeside, at least places like Goodsprings, Primm, Novac will be left alone. But it’s hard to argue with so much bias in the game.