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Wow. This post. It's like watching someone think out loud.

[high school geography] The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is near Pripyat, in the Ukraine, in eastern Europe. Hashima is former coal-mining town on an island off the coast of Japan, which was never part of the USSR. [/high school geography]

Caesar's Legion proves what the Romans and Mongols know: It's easy to suppress dissent in the outer districts when, if forced to act, you simply kill everybody. The NCR is unwilling to do that. So that means the NCR will find themselves in more difficulty in such scenarios, but it also means...

What use is being an "autonomous power" if your (Dutch and English) neighbors have no compunction merely taking the land they want, and killing those who complain? Reservations are because they had no more land to push the remaining tribes onto.

A few things. 1) "We're overstretched on soldiers" is not a petty excuse. It's the only viable one. Most of what you do if you decide to help the NCR is solve a lot of their more intractable problems for them in order to allow them to more equitably distribute their available resources -...

Not really. We have automatic weapons, industrial centers, distributed bureaucracy via modern sensibilities (including every major breakthrough in social concepts up to and including the constitution, civil liberties and universal human rights) and instantaneous communication via radio. It...

Their purposes are to secure the safety and wellbeing of their populace. Who counts as "populace" differs between each nation, but that's the basic point of them. Expansionism is usually because of the nullification of perceived threats (neighboring nations) or to secure resources. The NCR...

Except for, y'know, FTL travel. Or time travel like in the last movie. But, far more importantly, the legions of harder science fiction that should have come to mind before the Space Opera of which you mention, especially since it's known primarily for being a Space Opera.

Really? Star Trek is the most obvious example?

I dunno. Gibson's works were more classically Cyberpunkish, in that they were depicting the slow decline of society through a technocratic corporatist world; e.g. Brunner or Dick or Shirow or early Stephenson. Y'know, the kinda bleak tone that Lem got off on, and by bleak I mean, sure, half...

I was following your point right up until you said that District 9 blew your mind. I'm sorry, but that kinda undoes your previous points. Inception has a bunch of holes in it (none, however, as large as the Matrix' "human batteries" nonsense), but I have to agree with thegaresexperience: It...

- Have a self-sufficient economy. OF COURSE it bolsters the NCR first: THAT'S KINDA THE POINT. To argue that such shouldn't be the case is kinda like arguing that America is wrong for putting American interests ahead of non-Americans. - Except if you smooth relations between them and the Kings...

Iron Mountain Mine and Eagle Mountain Mine come up. Both are defunct now, but being that this is an alternate universe where Redding is still a mining town, who knows?

The potential legality of Bethesda's high-priced lawyers notwithstanding, how is this not patently working in bad faith?

Chris Avellone's opinions are right here. He talks about game design aspects which he liked/disliked, but not about plot elements which get the brunt of the criticism here. Aside from that, you're not going to get an Obsidian employee go on record to thumbs-down a Bethesda creation when they...

Feeding itself. And I'm of the opinion that House had to wait because he had no economy before all these folks with money started flooding in from the West. Casinos don't MAKE money, they REDISTRIBUTE it... towards the casinos.

Nice.

I take your buzzkill and raise you a SCIENCE!

Star Trek. Star freakin' Trek. Here: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/I%27m_a_doctor,_not_a...

Being that we appear to be living in a nation where politicians under the employ of corporate 'donations' all tout a "free market will save everything, including education and health care" doctrine, we do indeed appear to be living in a neoliberal country. And it is retarded.