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[-] NothingButBits@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

something Russia has been accused of doing in the Ukrainian war.

not only them and in this particular war, they also accuse soviet union to human wave the nazis away, which is funny because for a long time the red army was undermanned and undergunned still put up a fight, and this kinda of shit has even been drilled on former soviet countries. also they say the same shit about china, that their only strategy in the war in korea was send waves of people. and the same things about the mongols, they refer as horde meaning the lack the white man intelligence to form complex command structures and just run over with a ton of people. the list goes on and on, and it is always east countries

[-] NothingButBits@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah it's orientalism, to give the impression that only the West knows precious value of a human life. Meanwhile the Asians are seen as just hordes of insects that can be obliterated by any means even nuclear. It's no coincidence the western masses are so bloodthirsty.

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