I said it elsewhere already, but is it too hard to shift the policy to the responsibility of the potential claim-holder?

Keep refreshing the checkout screen. If you had Fallout from a previous free giveaway from GOG, it'll shuffle you into giving it as a gift only, so instead, de-select Fallout and just proceed to checkout/refresh/refresh/until it lets you pay the 0.00 for it.

Interesting!

Depending upon what organization you use, that could either be December 13th, 2014, or a magical month that has yet to exist.

Expect the worst, and be pleasantly surprised when it's not the worst, or at least be prepared for the worst case scenario, maybe?

The news of this, to me, also feels like Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion.

"Real life" comparisons for me with the game began to suspend my disbelief around the time I saw my first Radscorpion, or had my character consume its first 300 year old Nuka Cola.

In general, one could say that Obsidian desperately needs a shrewd editor for their created content.

Yeah, some people got super-bothered by the tint on everything in both games. For PC gamers, at least there exists various mods that will erase those unappealing tints.

It's a setting that got me very interested in the region, enough to visit it more than once since I played the game, and enjoy the various features of it. As a map, for me at least, it was a most wonderful effect of virtual tourism, leading to actual tourism.

Why does the Western United States claim ownership of retro-futurist style, via "actual Fallout?"

To be fair, it's not my vision.

Why does Fallout belong to the Southwestern United States?

The general game engines that Bethesda and their partners and houses have used could definitely use some major re-tooling, for sure.

That was one of the possibilities that I would love to see explored in the Fallout universe, exactly what you pointed ... setting and/or characters involved on the other side of the conflict that ended life as they knew it.

Same here, re: personal origin. They could do parts of the west side and sections of the core downtown rendered as-is, and it would fit in with the perpetual Fallout ruin porn.

As an American, I have long heard and recognized the distaste with games and movies being constantly set by Americans in America, by non-Americans.

Everyone's concept of America is so very different, depending on which part of the vast tracts of land one was formed, taking their own spin on it.

DC sports teams tend to get split mostly into 'eastern' groupings, but sometimes it's a vague 'east' vs. a 'southeast' organization, historically.