Recent content by haeerhum

I was afraid of this.

That's true. Is it though? It tends not to be the case in wars that are considered unjust. A lot of Vietnam vets, as I understand it, came back home feeling like shit because no one would thank them for what they did. Iraq, too, though not to the same extent. If the majority of America thinks...

I bet it pays well to be a loyal soldier at a time when everyone's howling at the government. And, you know, lawyers, if that stuff about your spouse being a lawyer is true. The sole survivor's family isn't representative of the average American in my mind. These are the people benefiting from...

It's one thing to have simpler clothing or shelter or a hunter-gatherer economy, but Arroyo goes all-out. Temple of trials, worship of the vault, shamans, spiritual quests. And these aren't a few individuals, they're apparently settlement leaders, and it's entrenched in the culture. It's a...

Actually, I've always kind of felt that you should start at least one Fallout game before the war. All of the protagonists in previous games were born into the setting and accept a post-apocalyptic reality as normal. That incredible sense of loss of thousands of years of glorious history and...