Not to mention that sticking with the Institute was really the only one that made narrative sense. After the way the game starts, why wouldn’t your character do that?

The NFL on Fox theme gives me anxiety. If it was playing it meant it was Sunday and I still had homework to do, plus my dad was about to get really, really mad at the Eagles to boot.

“The device you bought for the express purpose of listening to you, sending your voice to a server for processing, and returning a personalized response may be a privacy problem.”

I’ll take filling out an online form over dictating an order to a human every time, because the form gets it right every time without making me repeat everything.

I’m guessing they abandoned the corporate collective and now his organization can’t properly function without them. Not that it makes him the good guy, of course.

Fair enough.

Gita seemed to think that was an unintentional act of insensitivity, which might be what we’re really disagreeing about here.

Come on, “concentration camp” is WAY more loaded than “colony.”

Except, as Gita said, there is no native population being displaced or oppressed. So people may associate connotations, but they would be completely out of context in this application.

I think that’s a real stretch, especially in a fictional context clearly devoid of those connotations, but I guess that’s just me.

It’s a preoccupation with what a thing is labeled over what it actually is and these sites do it all the time. It’s surface level analysis and it makes us all dumber. “Colony” is not a bad word out of context.

I can’t wait for the AV Club to spoil every episode with headlines and screencaps the day after it drops.

This. My other problem is that I generally don’t care about random people, and I don’t presume that random people care about me. So when Generic Boomer Coworker strolls into my office and starts talking at me about sports just because I am male, it’s all I can do to not tell him to stop wasting my time and go away.

I felt a little salty about that too, but it seems like that’s the tip of the iceberg that is the rest of this game. And knowing the details of the one quest actually convinced me of what the game is actually like and made me want to play it.

It’s not on my wannabe-monopolistic launcher of choice!

This game just came off my Christmas list and got on to my “must play now” list.

New Vegas was brilliant because at first my gut told me “fuck these factions, I wanna be in charge,” and it turned out I could actually do that.

Also, the thesis can be that a futuristic society can eventually get past racism and sexism, but wealth will always rule.

Looks like it’s time to pick up Game Pass again!

The entries for Dion and Jim Morrison both reference Frank Sinatra.