#it’s just the tone deaf of fallout to its original themes in a capitalistic hellscape like now

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anyway sorry I’m grumpy about fallout (jk I’m not actually)

#fallout 76 has really really tainted my love and care for the bethedsa fallout games #not that I couldn’t turn off my brain and just look at them for what they are lol #it’s the whole gotta laugh so you don’t scream thing #bc fallout 2 has that intro bit where it’s like making things safe in the newly annexed candy and it’s just. #a surrendered man getting shot in the back of the head by a solider #to haha communism and vaults are Funney Capitalism Promotion Material #side note: I hate how vaults are the selling points of fallout merch #could make a whole post about that #(vault boys dead capitalist eyes are Disgusting I Hate That Little Fuck) #it’s just the tone deaf of fallout to its original themes in a capitalistic hellscape like now #it shares that sort of goings on with the cyberpunk genre #I’m also much more invested in a nobody mail carrier who is nothing but a puzzle piece in a wider story #(like new vegas is a small portion of the greater war between the legion and the NCR lbr) #compared to the heroic chosen one story of other ones #or the It’s up to YOU to solve this issue #yes the courier can play a bigger role in the factions but they don’t end up quote unquote on top #unless you play independent but that’s a whole can of worms #owen talks #I dunno the hero complex is a story I’m not super invested in anymore—the Chosen One narrative