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[-] Indifference_Engine@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago
[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Damn, kinda fucked. But also recontextualises it as "Fallout the first game" instead of "Fallout the series" as he wasn't much involved past #1. I've no idea how accurate that statement is then as I've never played 1 or 2.

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

New Vegas is more overtly Anticapitalist and more friendly towards Socialism, but it never goes the full way.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The way I envision my Independent runs (yes, multiple) ending is my Six knitting together the Followers of the Apocalypse, the Kings, and the folk who run the Atomic Wrangler(bc fuck the van Graffs) in tandem with Yes Man's securitron army to rule over Independent Vegas as a council

A worker's council even

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fold in Westside, guaranteed some are comrades. The bulk of infrastructure there is cooperatively managed, and they are firmly anti-Imperialism

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Facts; I constantly forget Westside is a thing once the scumbags that sold kids to Cook-Cook are dead. ('Cause they always have to die.) More Thorn runs are necessary x)

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Absolutely, fuck those shitheads. Westside is fun, but underutilized sadly.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

New Vegas is more overtly Anticapitalist and more friendly towards Socialism

G*mers: "Ceasar's Legion FTW"

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I like the authors take, at the end.

Fair enough, I suppose. Cain's still been responsible for some of my favourite games even if he doesn't share my read of them. Plus, if there's one thing the Marx-adjacent among us don't need help with, it's reading anti-capitalism into literally everything

Lol I've been hit!

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Roland Barthes stays winning. Authorial intent is bullshit and worthless when it comes to interpretation and criticism. One can read a piece of media in its context, but one can choose to ignore the author and interpret the content differently.

[-] Indifference_Engine@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah, like, this isn't to say that it make his opinion any more valid, I just thought that was interesting context

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago

And this is why we follow "Death of the Author" I genuinely don't care what the peckerwood thinks

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