say what you will about Fallout 3 but it shares a lot of themes with New Vegas, even if they're a bit hamfisted. Enclave Radio perfectly established the tone of the entire game and if you turn it on right as you get out of the vault there's just enough time to realize what effective propaganda it is by the time you hit Megaton. whoops, I became the bug-eyed person from the meme
Yeah it's astounding how the worldbuilding quality drops hard in 4.
I think it's just a different type of game entirely. they're trying to expand on the abolitionist themes from the Synthetic Man quest in 3 and you see a lot of parallels between 3 and 4 but the games are marketed to two different kinds of player because of how far apart they were released
Think I've hit the limit to my online-ness because I have literally no clue what the fuck this is
The perks that allow you to be gay/straight in fallout new vegas also give you a damage boost against that gender. They are not mutually exclusive so bisexuals have more power.
So basically r/gamingcirclejerk had this meme where the g*mer staring at the game said something superficial like "Wow, cool gun!" while the game's intended message that went over the g*mer's head was a wall of text. Eventually, it was inverted where the wall of text message was what the g*mer was staring at while the thing that went over the g*mer's head was something superficial and usually LGBTQ-positive like "Being bisexual makes you do 10% damage vs everything."
the original was about Gundam's antiwar message being overshadowed by the cool robot fights
And if you take the vs opposite gender perk who also gave you 10% damage (black widow/lady killer) then it complements the gay one. Hence bisexuals get 10% vs everything.
Being gay lets you damage your own gender more and being cis lets you damage the opposite gender more, so the Gamer Move is to be both
I don't know why it never occurred to me that you could take both.
Idk why but I'd always thought taking both canceled out the damage bonus as a balancing measure. Maybe that was just a mod "fix" that I never realized wasn't vanilla
