I would expect a place like the Codex, which is filled with potato citizens and former potato citizens like myself, to have an innate sense of bullshit when it comes to models of desolate environments with realistic concept of resource scarcity. And yet you people come up with excuses for everything from retarded robot sheriffs to pointless souvenier shops in the middle of nowhere, to clean clinics with no lines, to electricity wasted on pointless fluff everywhere... a struggling village has a bar with neon signs...
… demonstrating your own unconscious prejudices about how such things are accomplished.
A post nuclear world is a
libertarian paradise. It is difficult for a bolshevist like yourself to imagine a world with no central government which has extremely advanced technology, ample electricity from nuclear sources and fantastic MTBF for all their electronics. Even after a lifetime of standing in lines from food shortages waiting for your vodka and potato sack each week, you still think these things come from a centralised State.
In fact, the world of Fallout
is so advanced because all the dead weight in the population trying to regulate mankind out of existence has bought the farm, freeing up individual creativity and innovation which has progressed at an astounding rate without the 80% bottom feeders sucking the lifeblood of the creative people with their lamprey bloodsucker tax and revenue draining schemes.
What is great about Fallout is that it gives us a glimpse of how wonderful the world might still become even after a nuclear holocaust …
because people like you have perished.
There
are no resource shortages in our world.
The only shortage that plagues this planet is a shortage of brains. In the post-atomic world created by Bethesda, the bright people finally get to do all the things they wanted to do to improve their lives. You waited for the State to provide all these things for your whole life like tribalists in cargo cults in the South Seas.
Rest assured that as soon as you got tipped into the mass grave with a bulldozer by decontamination crews, people would be starting thorium generators in their garages worldwide. We could finally act as bright as we were born instead of always having to operate at the level at which people like yourself feel is appropriate. "Let's get the government to control it!" Brilliant, dude. Look how good that has been working the last 10,000 years. Manboon is not a learning animal.
Since this reply is written by the Mystical Codex Legend, I'm going to violate my promise for this post. This is a very nice troll, and what's sad, it's coming from someone politically aligned with me.
Calling me a commie is one of the worst insults you can use. Just recently I wrote an article for a conservative site, contrasting the drab life in USSR with the amazing wealth generation and opportunity afforded by capitalism. There are plenty of Obama-Jugend who could benefit from your rhetoric in this day and age - I'm not one of them. I used to be a Lenin-Jugend, but I grew up in an environment which offered no traces of prosperity afforded by capitalism. After 1991, we started getting information from overseas, and everyone scrambled to GTFO into a capitalist country, be it America, Israel, Germany or U.K... people realized that they were robbed by a
Statist government. Not so dissimilar in principle from the one that's now instituting the disastrous wealth redistribution policy called Affordable Care Act.
Politics aside, however strong your argument would be otherwise, it still falls firmly in the pile of FO:NV apologists.
Scarcity is scarcity. I didn't imply scarcity, the FO:NV designers did, but they don't want to live with the consequences. One clinic per large area should mean patient lines and exhausted doctors, PERIOD.
Especially at early stages of rebuilding, you still won't see such extravagant waste of resources as a freaking sentient robot defending a village. It's a STARK CONTRAST. One thing is a bartender robot in shiny tech prosperous world of 5th Element. Another thing is a futuristic robot standing in the middle of a muddy 18-th century village which isn't anywhere near the level of technology that the robot itself.
I can't believe so many people are taking it as a given. What SHOULD BE THERE is human armed guards. Not a wacky fucking robot. It ruins the world from the start.
As portrayed by FO:NV designers themselves, the world of FO:NV is NOT a prosperous place. It's NOT a place where New Vegas itself belongs. So in the end, it all boils down to the same thing with you as all the other apologists - the libertarian dream world that you speak of, isn't actually, coherently, present in the game.
Maybe it realistically WOULD BE, but it ISN'T portrayed with any degree of believability.
So you
LARP it. You use the idea of it to excuse the actual nonsense of FO:NV's actual gameworld.
FO:NV is a LARPer game. One where the hollow ring of the world "Fallout" has long lost its impact, with the post-post-post-apocalyptic world hopelessly diluted by Fallout 2 and 3 into generic mash of poorly thought-out sci-fi.
Don't call me a commie again.
