popcornlung [they/them]

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  • No. The manifesto accuses the elites of being secret fascist kleptocrats and claims that crypto currency was made to crash the economy, that media is purposely devisive and pessimistic because the secret fascist kleptocrats want people to feel defeated, and there’s some accusations that the republicans and democrats are preforming a sort of kayfabe with each other and that biden and trump are in fact working together, which is a bit too far fetched for me. I’m going to need to see some evidence that they both met in a dark room and planned it out. But this actual schizophrenic man may have uncovered a genuine conspiracy theory involving Epstein, Clinton, or Peter Thiel.

    The man might be crazy, he might be saying stuff that is old news to people, his politics might be in the radlib/socdem category, but I wouldn’t say I disagree with him, okay maybe I wouldn’t catch myself on fire over this, but I’m willing to look into what he had to say because he doesn’t seem like a chud. He said nothing of Palestine though so who knows, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.







  • Yes the majority of mutants in the legion would be slaves/low level foot soldiers, but if supermutants and ghouls made up a noticeable portion of Caesar’s inner circle and the legion had a few moments of going out of its way “help” mutants, even if for a cynical purpose, I think it would give the ncr moral ambiguity they needed to not be the good guys. The legion does respect strength, they are willing to work with a female courier, the legion is still misogynist, I would like a legion retcon that makes them view humans and mutants as equal, both equal as slaves, it’s not like the legion would be a good thing, if their one redeeming quality was “ghouls aren’t discriminated against” instead of “they made the trade routes safer”, that would be a better reason to side with them. I would want an ncr playthrough have the player go out of their way to protect mutants, while a legion playthrough would basically stipulate that mutants are under the legion’s protection. As for why a misogynist military organization would tolerate mutants, might makes right. If Caesar said “mutants are cool” who would question him? If he modeled his empire off rome then I could see him assimilating mutants into his empire and making it very clear he will crucify anyone who has a problem with that.


  • A lot of the legion content was cut due to time and there was internal disagreement on whether they should have been a playable faction in the first place. I view the ncr acceptance of ghouls in the same way the legion would accept a female courier, they are willing to compromise out of necessity sometimes, the ncr and legion are willing to accept help from the enclave who are without a doubt the most evil faction in the entire series, but I think the ncr acceptance of of mutants should have always been lower than the legions, the ghoul rangers are a segregated unit, even in the best endings the legion should have been better for mutants than the ncr. Like attacking supermutants should have resulted in the legion going hostile.


  • Counterpoint, if the majority of ghouls and mutants were siding with the explicitly bad slaver guys then the player would feel a lot less bad about killing them, and unless you specifically went out of your way to not kill them, you get an ending slide that says that you were responsible for starting a pogrom against mutants. There’s people who played fallout one and wanted to side with the master, I think the legion is the closest faction there is to that in new Vegas because there already is some bits of lore about them being somewhat tolerant to ghouls, and the ncr being the opposite.