The American Southwest is a testament to man's hubris and his disdain for the will of God
Northern California is bad for other reasons
Fallout: amerikkkan exceptionalism and capitalism will destroy the world
G*mers: wow cool America robot!
The fact that said America Robot is lobbing nukes at the US government remnants and people still miss the point is telling. This is why you can't have cool things in satire.
It is literally a gigantic piece of garbage held together by chewing gum built as a vanity project by a failing empire in an almost 1:1 analogue of the Maus, whose only two uses were to throw nuclear bombs at comically evil institutions of the USA while screaming McCarthyist slogans.
They dressed the remnants of the US empire up as the SS in the third game
I feel like the problem is that we didn't really see much of the "held together by chewing gum" part. We saw an effective war-machine that mopped the floor with mid-high level mooks.
Maybe if LP was immediately destroyed just before you reach Project Purity, like it was in Broken Steel, then the message would come across as more easily.
Fallout 3 did a lot to undermine it's own narrative. But to not know LP was a piece of crap you had to walk past computers in the room in which liberty prime resides, that you are forced to walk right up to, more than once, and ignore them. Which I suppose is entirely possible. Because its weird to put actual narrative threads in incredibly optional sections
This presupposes the robot was not used in new Vegas because I didn't play that
New Vegas takes place thousands of miles away from Fallout 3, which is in Washington DC.
California legits looks like a third world country these days, like I'm serious it's getting really bad. The income inequality is also obvious, the nice suburbs have brand new roads and everywhere else is basically Mexico.
Of course right wingers attribute third world country to the entire state being filled with 900000000 Mexicans who go around jackhammering the streets and taking chunks out of sidewalks pa' ser una casa de ladrillo (lo que mas anhelaba desde que era chiquillo) and fucking the white women and consider the solution killing the libtards and interning the Mexicans (who's gonna pick the fruit?) so I don't like to make mention of this but goddamn
I think the saddest thing is that everyone in the US KNOWS in their heart that California is communist so we're never getting a communist movement going because everyone was like "I lived communism in California I SAW IT!!!!"
He and Cuomo duking it outbin the primaries will be :chefs-kiss:
Me who was never born with an individuality or sense of character :fortnitedanceshittingonfloor:
California is the most liberal sate and it really shows what that means. My city is famous for being the first one to test the clinton era welfare reforms. Just up the freeway we have the Detroit of the west. The numbers for poverty and misery there match detroit. LA emits some kinda radiation that just makes everything around it worse . Our legendarily corrupt police have pride stickers on the cars. Can't get more liberal than that
As I continue to try to find a place to live to survive climate change, Detroit caught my attention. Could you tell me more if you know it well?
I mean, the fresh water is an obvious draw. There's a smaller lake named lake st. clair that's large but not a great lake nearby. The Detroit river is relatively narrow so you can escape to Canada if need be.
There's a ton of history. Some great commie art (Rivera). Interesting urban art (Heidelberg). Motown, obviously. MC5. Death. A long history of great musicians.
The area still has manufacturing capacity if shit hits the fan but it doesn't go mad max right away. Militant labor history. Still a strong labor town despite neolibs gutting a lot of it.
It's affordable. People are relatively friendly for a bigger city. And they've been through a lot of shit already. Michael Moore (our favorite radlib) called places like Detroit and Flint canaries in the coal mine, like, a decade or two ago, so they're probably better prepared to weather adversity than a coastal "brunch town" (not sure what I'm trying to convey, but I think you get the picture).
Plus, if shit somehow gets better, you still have the same stuff (probably on a smaller scale) that any other city has to offer.
Biiiiig urban ag city, too, if you're into that. Urban farms are everywhere.
That all sounds awesome. The incredible poverty is painful to see - but I'm going to be making a living in direct services or advocacy in that regard anyway, so I best get comfortable with it. As I've become a principled communist, the Debs quote, “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” really speaks to me. I'm doing my best to shed my LIB sensibilities and apprehension for being near poverty. It's easier as I grow used to it working in the field that I do.
Seeing as there's not a lot of money in doing the right thing, Detroit cost of living means I might actually be able to own a home and get out from under a leech of a landlord too. I don't know, it seems like a place that has a lot of potential with climate change and shifting material conditions. Thanks for sharing.
I don't mean to undersell the large scale problems like poverty, crime, and a lack of public transportation (GM and Ford prefer people to buy cars, weird), don't get me wrong.
But I'd still recommend a visit if you're considering moving there. Detroit really does have a lot to offer.
And they have all the money in the world and no pesky republicans in their way. California is Democrats mask off.
Honestly I don't think cyberpunk actually did have any subtlety
California is the essence of America. It is where Manifest Destiny literally met its end, and was replaced by aerospace and military contractors. And Hollywood, which will write movies about why the people killed by MIC bombs had it coming. California, not Texas, is the most America part of America.
