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94·3 months agoPaladin Danse goes out of character in order to admire the U.S.S. Constitution (a robot-owned ship no less) even though the BoS hates the U.S. for nuking half the world. He then goes on to view Chinese ghouls as evil for being Chinese.
Hancock is not really a charicature or satire of American patriotism. The devs clearly want him to just be a patriot.
The minute men have blatantly nationalistic aesthetics (including their general dressing himself like George Washington). They camp out in the so very subtle “Museum of Freedom”.
None of these things are done ironically. These people who live in a world destroyed in equal parts by the U.S. and China should logically hate everything the U.S. was and claimed to stand for. Instead, they constantly brown-nose a country that no longer exists.
Nobody in Fallout 1, 2 and NV (except for the Enclave) would ever consider pre-war U.S. as a force for good or something to look back to with pride. The Enclave are the bad guys for good reasons.
The only actual joke patriotism in Fallout 4 is Moe and his Swatters.
Todd Howard saw a scathing critique of the United States’ red scare era and thought to himself “this game loves United States ultra-patriotism and the 50’s aesthetics”.
Yes-men are the least of his problems.
5·3 months agoI was thinking TurboQueef but that works too.
Granted, I don’t know what Haiku is, but surely it can’t be more independent and niche than TempleOS?
My theory about V (in the graphic novel) is that
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V and Evie are the same person. Evie is a trans woman who was imprisoned in cell five for being “undesirable”, like the lesbian woman in the cell next to her. The chapter where Evie is “tortured” by V is actually her V persona making Evie face the fact that this actually happened to her. The bad guys say “you’re the man from cell five” because they are bigots who refuse to accept her as female.
Sexual liberation and autonomy is a big part of V for Vendetta. I’m probably wrong about my theory but I just think it fits the rest of the message of the graphic novel.