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Saying we shouldn’t be bound by bad lore sounds good but at the same time, it just opens the door to head cannon everything to your liking. Can interesting questions be brought up initially by bad lore then refined separately? Yeah definitely. Just like this synth business. Unfortunately...

I always figured the latter of the two with the results being similar to those Bronze Age Mesopotamian city states conquered by barbarous hill people. You are right though, through that philosophical lens the point is that it is unknowable. A new societal front completely unique to post nuclear...

Isnt that only if you get them to cooperate with the NCR though? What do you think the results of Caesar’s synthesis would have been? I couldn’t really figure out exactly where he thought his new society might lead.

Yeah got sidetracked. To try and reel it back in, life is a definite overstatement, but regardless at the moment a third of senators have 12+ years of seat time not including prior tenure in the house. This peaked in the late 90s at 46%. 47% of senators have served previously in the house. This...

Lol no shit that how it should work, anything organic needs food, sleep etc. Unfortunately the lore is all we have to go on and the institute says no food, sleep, or aging required. Explicitly. Better luck next game when Bethesda retcons them Just saw this post now and had no idea the legal...

You’re telling me Radiant AI ™️ doesn’t just work™️?

It’s doubtful even Bethesda even really knows what gen 3s are biologically. Apparently they are completely genetically identical to humans but somehow don’t age, sleep, or have a need to eat and cannot gain or loose weight. All of this, not just sterility, implies massive biological differences...

Thats kind of the issue though. With people, our perception of reality and society at large is incumbent to language. When people think, its in their language and the limitations and freedoms of that language also determine how they can interact with society and the world at large. For example...

It really is fascinating to think about, though I do agree that high levels of intelligence are due to evolution. Or rather evolution in the right direction. Thinking about this sort of topic is such a rabbit hole its not even funny. For example I remember reading that dolphins and orcas have an...

You’re either being deliberately obtuse or simply don’t understand how species are defined. If you have twins and one is fertile and the other isn't, does that make your wife a monkey? No it means your kid has fertility issues. Yeah pretty much this. People conflating being a person and...

In a word: yes. You can’t magically make a machine a person because it’s sentient. Personhood is strictly biological humans. That’s not to say we can’t recognize that other species or machines may have varying degrees of sentience or agency.

The question is are they people, not are they sentient or “alive”. Strictly speaking, they are not people though they are sentient. If it can’t breed with a person and create fertile offspring, it’s not human

America has always had and continues to have massive issues with cooperate and financial interests being seen as more than equal in the eyes of the federal government. Voting is irrelevant when the candidates are all carefully selected through a seditious two party system, wherein both parties...

In theory, yeah liberal democracies are supposed to cater to the people at large, giving them power over the government. The thing is, those special interest groups effectively control the government. The whole idea that House is interested in serving people with money is true to a certain...

Sure. They can’t reproduce with people to produce offspring, do not age, don’t have a metabolic need for food, and can be literally programmed. This all implies large biological differences between humans and synths and simply does not fit the basic criteria to make them the same species as...

This is a two year old post, but it deserves a more serious response. The difference between Dead Space (just finished 1 and 2 the other day, love them) and the Fallout franchise is the fact the rights were sold to Bethesda from Interplay and the amount of time between 2, 3, then 4. Bethesda has...

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Fallout 3 was my intro to Fallout at large, definitely love it for that, but Fallout 4 doesn't seem to loose much over 3. Honestly really curious as to what really gets to you about Fo4 in direct comparison to Fo3. Unique settings? Strong art direction?

To be frank, the NCR is only about a couple steps away from becoming some crony-capitalist oligarchy and no matter what happens in the Mojave, its going there. If we factor in courier involvement post-game, the Courier would be the most limited in the NCR ending. The player character is really...