doomcanoe

Sorry, I meant actually mentally checked out levels of non awareness. Completely unaware of your surroundings style.

No one who can use a word with as many syllables as "civilization" would even come close to accidentally performing a similar gesture.

Do I think he is a true "final solution" style Nazi? No, but he knew damn well what it was when he did it. Was it to embolden his far-right base? Troll the media who would dive on the opportunity to talk about it endlessly, thusly shifting the media away from Trump's awful day 1 executive orders? Just see if he could get away with it? All of the above? Who knows.

But one thing is for sure, he intentionally and knowingly did a Nazi Salute.

That's fair, bet they are nice ass pants.

There is definitely a good chance of that. Bethesda was heating up at the time and definitely catapulted the series to international success and fame.

But, and this is just the rambling of an old man, I'm not too concerned about a games popularity. Fallout 1 and 2 are a couple of my favorite games of all time, and basically everything Troika put out are absolute gems. VTM Bloodlines is still a game I go back and play every couple of years or so.

So yeah, there was a good chance Troika would have still gone under, and Fallout would have languished in obscurity, but I'm pretty sure one of what would have been my favorite games of all time vanished into nothingness when Troika lost that bidding war.

Still, I can cry myself to sleep on one my other favorite games, New Vegas.

Buddy, I get that you don't want it to be a Nazi salute... But it obviously is. The Nazis salute is so recognizable, so taboo, and so utterly tainted by its history that other countries that used similar salutes before Nazi Germany changed their salutes to avoid the connotations.

No one with any level of awareness would even come close to accidentally performing a similar gesture. Especially not someone who has had to defend themselves after making Anti-Semitic rhetoric in the past. Especially not at a large scale publicly viewable governmental event like the Inauguration.

Its like the giving the middle finger in America. Everyone knows what it means, and avoids doing things even remotely similar unless they mean to express the intended sentiment.

If your argument is "Elon didn't know what the Nazi salute looked like" or "it's just extremely similar looking but he didn't mean for it to be so", then you are trying hard to lie to yourself.

Maybe, there are a lot of shames in life, and it would have been great to see what they could have done with more dev time. But Bethesda said "we will let you do it if you can get it done in 18 months" and Obsidian said "hell yeah!".

And given that situation, I am actually glad they spent the effort on the writing and player agency over bug fixing. A "better managed" development might well have been far less ambitious.

Now Troika games not winning the bidding war for the Fallout license, that's a damn shame.

There is a hard "yes/no" answer to this.

It looks like a first person shooter, so you might expect it to play like a fun FPS game. Is it fun in that way? No, not really. Mods can fix this a bit, but it will never be Doom 2016.

It is published by Bethesda, so you might expect it to have fun exploration like Morrowind, Oblivion, or Skyrim. Is it fun in that way? Kinda, but it's a bit theme-parky and the explorable world is less "open" than other Bethesda offerings. What you find is always fun, but the "getting there" part is only so-so. (Kinda the opposite of other Bethesda games this way)

So why is it still talked about so much and called a masterpiece then you might be asking? Well, in the spirit of the great CRPGs, the narrative agency is insanely good. Where many RPGs give you the illusions of choice, New Vegas is the ultimate "choose your own adventure".

While there is no "wrong way" to play a game, if you want to see why people love New Vegas, try to stop thinking about RPGs from the BioWare "paragon/renegade" dichotomy, and instead try to really consider, "what outcome do I want to happen", and New Vegas will surprise the shit out of you with how much agency they really give the player. In this way, it is one of the GOATs. (And I'm not talking about the exam)

Yeah, Obsidian has a bad habit of that. Crazy thing is they still managed to make one of the greatest RPGs of all time, crippled and short on development time.

Its a bit "theme parky", but the writing and narrative agency is just so good it's unreal.

Laughs in A Tale of Two Wastelands.

The point was obvious...

Chinese censorship is planned and targeted, with the intent to control and suppress dissent. It works hard to maintain a narrative and prevent excessive and rapid shifts so as to achieve a long term goal of control.

The billionaires running American social media (with a special shout to Musk) are mercurial and subject to the petty whims and feelings of the owner.

So while yes, obviously both change and the heads of the CCP are also occasionally subject to emotional responses, the differences between the two are stark and obvious. So no, "everything technically changes" is not a valid counter to the significant differences in intent and volatility.

Claiming you don't understand the point they were making is just being intentionally obtuse.

"Kinda sorta" is definitely the best way to put it.

You understand that your bully acting like they care about how another bully treats their victims might be... perturbing though right?

Like obviously neither bully is justified. But the hypocrisy of it all might feel like rubbing salt in the wound.

Even more so when that wound is actually your dead friends and family... from all the bombs...

On the incredibly infinitesimally insignificantly microscopically small chance that Trump somehow accidentally but actually stops the genocide, I won't bother looking that gift horse in the mouth. I'll just be thankful and move on to the litany of other problems.