After the Nat Turner rebellion the slave owners made damn sure that the only bible passages the slaves heard were the ones about obedience, submission and how your time in heaven will be awesome once they've used up your life here on earth for their profit.

The worst part is, them existing in the lowest caste means theres almost a 100% chance they’ve already been raped and exploited dozens of times.

Actually the US sold these to the Saudis. It was designed by Chrysler Defence and is now built/rebuilt by General Dynamics so your statement about being too cheap to diversify is not accurate. The only reason we’re still buying these things is complex but to simplify it for you, the M1A2S is pretty much one the better…

I thought he handled the bad writing perfectly. And no, voice actors can’t always “do fine” when they are given terrible content to work with. That’s like saying a good actor can save a film with a bad script and direction. That is simply not the case. Sure, critics can point out that the actor did well for the most…

As much as I like the new Nolan 343 Guilty Spark impression, I still have absolutely no issue with Dinklage’s performance. He was given shit lines to say, and he said them as I expected a robot to say them; with just a hint of emotion. You can only do so much with bad/corny writing, and Dinklage’s deadpan delivery is…

People say this when an organization hands down discipline to offending parties and I’m not sure they understand what they’re saying. Curt Schilling is protected by the First Amendment in that he has the freedom to say whatever he damn well pleases. However, his employer as a private enterprise can discipline their…

Wow, I didn’t realize that ESPN was an arm of the United States government...

i think he was confusing “Nazis” with “Nazr Mohammed”, the famous Muslim basketball player. something like that, maybe. anyway see you guys later

At this point if you’re ESPN, you either fire him or you don’t. He’s going to keep being Facebook uncle forever.

There’s only one Brahmin in Megaton, no food is shown to grow, and the premise of The Pitt implies there is no trade with the outside of the DC Wasteland.

Self referentially, while everyone is FEV exposed, even in the original Fallout there was nowhere near that much radiation, anywhere except The Glow. And while yes, DC got more bombs, the precedence was always “This radiation is murdery.”

Think of how fast radiation kills the Player Character in Fallout 3; your…

There’a difference between realism and logic. I think people confuse the terms a lot. Logically, in the game, it makes sense that ghouls and Super Mutants exist. Logically, it doesn’t make sense how people have lived for 200 years with that much radiation around.

I think the word you might want to use instead of realistic is verisimilitude.

Basically, the game makes sense as a function of itself as a fictional world, where it doesn’t follow the rules of the real world, but the rules it establishes for itself.

Fallout 3 doesn’t have a lot of verisimilitude, things just kind of…

Oh fuck, not the Chinese, another piece of Fall Out 3 crappy revisionism. Don’t touch Fall Out again with your filthy hands Bethesda and get off my lawn!

That’s how I felt. There were aspects of FO3 that simply made me quit the playing game altogether after Megaton. That’s not to say it wasn’t fun in a sort of mindless way, shooting stuff in a bleak looking place.

Even fantasy settings generally try to make the setting believable. They lay out things like infrastructure and economy to make it seem like a real living world which makes suspending your disbelief for the fantastical elements much easier.

FO3 did not do a good job of that.

But then how are people living there?
The problem it isn’t bombed out, the problem is it’s still more radioactive then it should be (not really a big issue, I can get that) and also people living there with no possible way to actually, well, be living there at all. What do they actually eat?

But there’s still an in-universe explanation that makes sense. FEV exposure (even for the ghouls; almost all humans are FEV exposed in Fallout.)
And Fallout 1, 2, and NV did a much better job on portraying their environment.

It’s a game that prides itself on world building and “simulating” real life, it doesn’t get that excuse.

I personally found New Vegas much more immersive than Fo3. What with there actually being a reasonable way for people to live in the Mojave, since there’s farms, a clear supply of electricity, the infrastructure of New Vegas and the NCR, and Fresh Water.

That and Fallout 3 always breaks me of immersion with its…