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Gosh you have to be the most pathetic creature on this planet to want to roll play as the scum of the earth.
Um.
This is not a new thing, it’s just adapted to the digital age.
"ICE and Mexicans" is my new favourite playground game
In those games, there's an element of consent because you agree to playing. Here, people are dressing up as cops and going aggro on random players.
You’re obviously not the younger/est child in your family.
Well, I actually am, but I'm also a 30-year-old man who grew up online and has a young niece and nephew. Let's try different examples:
Hey, I'm doing armor trims for free! We just gotta go to my spot in wildy rq
Yes and that’s a behaviour that should be taught out at a certain age. These are not only children but also adults roll playing this kind of bigotry. Look at the many RP servers that are dedicated to military wanking.
So basically the exact same thing that's happening IRL.
Yes and half of what you said are games for children who don’t understand the greater complexity of the world.
I’m not convinced that people who willingly LARP as soldiers and other real life boot licking shitheads are fully there in the head.
Fictional characters aside what the fuck is wrong with you wanting to pretend to be the bigot that rounds up minorities.
This is exactly why I am wary of diehard Brotherhood of Steel and Warhammer 40k fans. If you want to be the fictional fascists, you probably also want to be a real one.
I’ve had multiple people in person tell me about how their 40k friends were basically on the cusp of Nazi rhetoric last time they hung out.
So yes, I’m absolutely in agreement with you.
damn I don't even have one
Painting miniature models is a slippery slope 😂
I've only played Fallout 4 (allied with Railroad) and Fallout New Vegas (allied with NCR, just met BOS). Are they really that bad? I know they want to take everyone's toasters and whatnot.
You won't get the full experience and context without playing 1, 2 and Tactics. But they are still very much xenophobic in NV and 4. They practiced eugenics, they conscript new blood through slavery, and they are also hypocrites about how technology should be used.
Oh shit, that's crazy. Aren't they the good guys in 3? I remember something about different chapters having wildly different beliefs.
They're the good guys in Fallout 3 in the sense that they've taken it upon themselves to provide clean water and protect people from super mutants. They're also the bad guys in the sense that they make no attempt to discern sapient ghouls from feral ghouls; they shoot all mutants on sight. And of course their chapter had a civil war so there is a splinter faction present in Fallout 3 that clings to the old isolationist tech-hoarder ways.
The group in 3 broke away from the main BoS for... Reasons. But they were still xenophobic bigots. They just were nicer to non-mutants and wanted to help with the water thing (the only thing "good" about them in 3).