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House's pipe dreams about space colonisation never really struck me as anything more than snake oil. It would be a foolish endeavour and a horrible waste of energy and resources even if he were to attempt it. I would feel better about siding with him were he not so petty, but oh well, I guess...

It's actually far easier to have a dissenting opinion on NMA without getting a bunch of verbal abuse and ad hominem thrown at you nowadays than it is somewhere like Reddit.

Me too. Joshua already describes the New Canaanites as a tribe, and I got the distinct feeling from my interaction with him that the tribes in and around Utah had probably changed the LDS Church through their mutual interaction as much as vice versa.

Socialism isn't a radical idea and doesn't stem from ignorance. It's a humanitarian idea that stems from extreme imbalance in a society's division of wealth and the resulting social dysfunction. The practice of it can be perverted, as can the practice of democracy/free market economics. Just...

He lives in Ohio; he probably has his own armory. In a bunker, under a corn field. ;-) Don't know what kind of handgun you'd get for $60 though, I couldn't even buy a super soaker for that.

Or you could just screw VC over completely and make NCR devour them as a snack. It was nice, all of the little things they let you do throughout the game that had an impact on the world in the end. Fallout 2 was probably the first game I played that offered much in the way of clear choices and...

It's true, the interplay between Vault City, NCR and New Reno and all the ways you could change the outcome of the balance of power were well done. I found this far more interesting than the main story.

He was a giant joke though (even his name was a film reference), and I got the same feeling about pretty much the entire Enclave. Like they'd come up with the idea whilst baked and it somehow stuck. Fallout 2 was just a goofy-as-fuck game in general, really. It's actually still my favourite of...

The Enclave as a faction was just far too cartoonishly villainous compared to the much better written super mutants from Fallout. I've never liked the Enclave, from the moment I encountered Richardson. Black Isle tried way too hard to make us hate them. I still don't agree with most of Ben...

I'd agree that both Fallout and Fallout 2 are unattractive games (though they looked quite good at the time they were made - what's Fallout 4's excuse for having graphics that are seven years out of date?), and even that Fallout 2's main storyline was a hot mess - but there's absolutely no...

No they aren't. Their operation is much more akin to a humanitarian or relief organisation. They aren't a religion at all; they scarcely qualify as a political movement, and if they did, it would be an anti-government movement, pretty much the diametric opposite of a communist movement.

Your optimism is both heartwarming and depressing, because I'd like for you to be right but know with near-total certainty that you probably aren't.

Emphasis mine; people are often for some reason quick to assume that the only possible source of dangerous radiation is a man-made nuclear detonation - this is far from true. Also we could quite easily (and relatively cheaply) source energy on a large scale using present day fission...

Dunno what you're basing this on; by all in-game accounts there's plenty of intensive agriculture and livestock cultivation going on in the NCR. There doesn't need to be another industrial revolution. The advances made during the industrial revolution aren't suddenly gone. People in Fallout...

Sometimes I just set this track on repeat while I'm driving. Makes everything better. Also Danger Zone.

You want to check out just how much energy a large meteor impact could impart onto the planet. No man made weapon to date could even come close to such destructive power. No technology could make terraforming an entire planet less of an energy investment than fixing up the livable planet we have...

A good spouse knows that this is a very sweet and thoughtful gift even if the game itself is shit, and will play it and pretend to enjoy it regardless.

Even a nuked-to-shit planet earth is tonnes better than trying to make a planet without so much as a breathable atmosphere livable. It's not like the planet can't recover from a bunch of nuclear bomb detonations. It's recovered from much worse in prehistory.

Yeah, really, man. Play however you want, we aren't going to judge.