It would be a good satire of capitalist "human nature" arguments and American individualism

"Those damn pinkos actually made it..."

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    7 months ago

    It's always bugged me that the Union of Atomic Workers has been in the story since '97 as a high-tech power-armor using faction and Bethesda is still like "Hmm what do people like about Fallout? The Brotherhood of Steel? Let's shove them in to everything no matter how little sense it makes".

    "I figured that for every successful organization that made it in the Wasteland, there'd be ten that failed, and so I came up with some organization for Jake that explained where he got his weapons that wasn't "I used to be in the Brotherhood"... it's a throwaway bit intended to make the world a little messier; it's more believable if everything doesn't tie together neatly."

    • Scott Bennie
    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      7 months ago

      Yeah, it's such an interesting idea that there's just some guys who know how the tech works, but they're not weird about it

      The main conflict with them is that they've settled into a comfortable place, they've never had to deal with a harder wasteland, so they don't really believe that the player needs any of their tech or expertise

      They're not trying to keep people out, they think they can just offer safety and stability to everyone and it'll be fine

      Not realizing that there are forces out there that might take advantage or even just try to take it away from them anyway