The Courier is the player, not an abstracted third party. It's fine to argue that you wouldn't trust yourself to be a communist but to act as if The Courier has some conscious that acts independently of the player's actions is wrong
The Fallout is from the Sino-American war. There are several enclaves of PLA members still in America and some even broadcasting over the radio waves.
It's not impossible for the courier to have come across communist stuff at some point seeing as how China occupied several American cities at one point.
I'm just saying that in universe there are avenues by which your character could have been exposed to socialism. Especially because China is explicitly communist in the game and occupied cities (thus leaving behind propaganda and such).
Regardless of what my hypothetical politics in a post apocalyptic future would be, if you gave me the Hoover Dam, a Casino with a nuclear reactor under, an army of robots at my back, and a supercomputer friend who manages everything for me, you better believe I would wield power. Who wouldn't?
The Courier has no set background. Things like mentioning having sex with a woman in Montana or having been to New Reno are all optional dialogues you don't have to pick. I've seen many players make the argument Ulysses is insane and is mistaking you for someone else, which I can agree with. You could argue that you (The Courier) weren't even a career courier and simply agreed to deliver the Chip on a whim in order to visit New Vegas. The only things totally set in stone are you are delivering the Chip to new vegas and get shot in the head
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I don’t trust the Courier to be a communist,
The Courier is the player, not an abstracted third party. It's fine to argue that you wouldn't trust yourself to be a communist but to act as if The Courier has some conscious that acts independently of the player's actions is wrong
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My headcannon is that those Chine stealth manuals have a bit of theory in them and it slowly rubs on your character.
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I mean that's the plot of the entire game
The Fallout is from the Sino-American war. There are several enclaves of PLA members still in America and some even broadcasting over the radio waves.
It's not impossible for the courier to have come across communist stuff at some point seeing as how China occupied several American cities at one point.
Would they be interested in it?
Mine would be
Mine would too tbh. It’s hard to say, because you can say anything about a moldable character.
I'm just saying that in universe there are avenues by which your character could have been exposed to socialism. Especially because China is explicitly communist in the game and occupied cities (thus leaving behind propaganda and such).
Yeah.
the followers of the apocalypse have the books, im sure the courier could be exposed that way, or just by reading some dank rotting tomes in the waste
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basically impossible to get rid of communist books, we have so so so so many
fascist italy & germany had no luck in real life
so you feel like you can trust video game players to have good politics
Regardless of what my hypothetical politics in a post apocalyptic future would be, if you gave me the Hoover Dam, a Casino with a nuclear reactor under, an army of robots at my back, and a supercomputer friend who manages everything for me, you better believe I would wield power. Who wouldn't?
I thought we were talking about whether or not that'd go well not whether or not we would
I have no idea if I personally would make a good leader in the end. Doesn't mean I wouldn't try
No I know, I was just making a joke about g*mers :)
The courier has a set background. Unless you can find some Parenti in the game, how likely is it that the courier has been exposed to communism?
The Courier has no set background. Things like mentioning having sex with a woman in Montana or having been to New Reno are all optional dialogues you don't have to pick. I've seen many players make the argument Ulysses is insane and is mistaking you for someone else, which I can agree with. You could argue that you (The Courier) weren't even a career courier and simply agreed to deliver the Chip on a whim in order to visit New Vegas. The only things totally set in stone are you are delivering the Chip to new vegas and get shot in the head
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That is true.