Richard Oakes, born on this day in 1942, was a Mohawk indigenous activist and leader within the Red Power movement, playing a prominent role in the 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island from 1969 - 1971.
Oakes promoted Native American studies in university curricula and is credited for helping to change U.S. federal government "Termination" policies (policies regarding assimilation of indigenous people into the culture of the colonizer) of Native American peoples and culture.
In 1969, Oakes led a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island with LaNada Means, approximately 50 California State University students, and 37 others. On January 5th, 1970, Oakes' 12-year-old daughter, Yvonne, fell to her death from concrete steps. After her funeral, Oakes left the island.
In 1972, Oakes was shot and killed in Sonoma, California, by Michael Morgan, a YMCA camp manager. Allegedly, Oakes violently confronted Morgan, and Morgan responded by drawing a handgun and fatally shooting Oakes.
Oakes was unarmed when he was shot. Morgan claimed he acted in self-defense, and was acquitted on charges of voluntary manslaughter.
"We do not fear your threat to charge us with crimes on our land. We and all other oppressed peoples would welcome spectacle of proof before the world of your title by genocide. Nevertheless, we seek peace."
Richard Oakes
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In Fallout 4 the reason there are super mutants in the Commonwealth is that the institute is abducting people from the surface and turning them into supermutants for...evil reasons?
I think it would be much more interesting if the super mutants of the commonwealth looked drastically different from other super mutants and were in fact failed experiments to make a Mark 4 Synth incorporating FEV (a Mark 3.5 if you will, if Nick Valentine is like a 2.5). They could have made them creepily lithe with long limbs and lean musculature or something.
One of the things i really hated about the game. There was no reason for deathclaws or super mutants of the BoS to be out east, but Beth, idk, just didn't have any new ideas? And then because it's Beth they made them mindless murder cannibals, and made the raiders mindless murder cannibals, and...
Yeah I think it could have been a cool twist to be like "Hey these aren't just Super mutants, they're Synthes!" But no just wanting to have the murder mutants again.
Similarly with the Raiders. Instead of generic raiders they should have carved the commonwealth out between the Triggermen, Forged and Gunners. Actually show all 3 factions fighting each other for territory, with different cultures and goals. Have notoriety with them, so they send death squads after you. That sort of thing. When the minutemen defeat a gang the area actually becomes more peaceful etc, but the other gangs get tougher.
I feel like FO4 was just one giant wasted opportunity to tell cool stories. Like the game itself is pretty good (difficulty scaling needs a ton of work). The physical aspects of the world are good but the writing is just so bad.
Yeah it's been said often but the biggest mistake they made (which I guess they fixed with Fallout 76) was setting things after the first 2 games with Fallout 3. Trying to do the post apocalyptic setting hundreds of years after the war when post-post-apocalyptic society was rebuilding.
Had they set all the new games in the first few years, when fragments of old world factions still existed, radiation was still everywhere, mutant creatures where in flux and unstable, raiders and people just trying to survive, I think the games would have worked better.
And then they made raiders that have a different name and who all wear coherent uniforms like some kind of a pseudo military force.
Those guys? Also mindless murder cannibals.