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[-] OutrageousHairdo@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I get the sentiment, but I feel like Caesar's Legion wasn't really meant to be like, satirical? The authors of New Vegas clearly intended for him to be the wrong choice, don't get me wrong, but it does still feel like a serious depiction of fascism rather than purely taking the piss out of it. It's silly only insofar as fascism itself tends to lead to silliness.

[-] fox@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

Caesar claims to be building Rome, but Rome could easily weather the death of its emperor. Caesar talks of the hegelian dialectic, but it's all garbled nonsense. Caesar intends to build a new nation by the conquest and merger of the NCR, yet is apparently unaware of the concept of guerilla warfare despite the fact his army was blown away at Boulder City by an urban warfare trap. Most of his soldiers are barely trained tribesmen with swords and his conquest has so far consisted of fighting small tribes and not technologically advanced states.

[-] OutrageousHairdo@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

I didn't say Caesar wasn't stupid and frivolous, I just said I didn't think the developers were making him stupid and frivolous as satire. Real life fascists are just as dumb as he is.

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