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 No.739[Last 50 Posts]

I though about starting this thread in /hobby/, but considering I'm not interested in talking about the merits of the game-itself, and rather to discuss the specific dilemma of factions, I thought I'd get a more focused discussion here.

The Wildcard ending notwithstanding, there are principally three different factions in the game you can side with: Caesar's Legion, New California Republic, and Mr. House. To begin, Caesar's Legion is a fascist power lead by a historical materialist (even though the writers somewhat misrepresent Hegel in their dialogue about the dialectic, the general theme is maintained) most players misunderstand Caesar as just a LARPer rather than someone who is genuinely trying to restart history. His Legion, is admittedly a hegemonic autocracy that Caesar intends to use to subjugate humanity under one banner, so that their collective progress would be accelerated. It's entirely possible to interpret Caesar as just history's janitor trying to send humanity back through the motions and antiquity to try and reach a better result than rushing back to the "good ol' days" like the NCR, rather than someone who takes pleasure in creating a slave society that is an objectively malignant entity.

The NCR is presented as the return of the old Bourgeois Dictatorship of the US, their government is a corrupt expansionist bureaucracy that can only adequately administrate war, meanwhile the actual body of the legislation itself has a lineage of benevolent autocrats (tandy) and is ruled by the interest of the "brahmin barons" (kulaks), this is a critique that Caesar presents in his analysis of the NCR (which happens to sound out-of-context Marxian). Caesar correctly identifies the NCR as a reincarnation of the failed Bourgeois state that brought about the very predicament of the wasteland, and seeks to use them as his component in creating a society apt enough to the material conditions of the wasteland.

The strangest character in this dynamic is Mr. House, if the NCR is a light veil for a Bourg dictatorship, then Mr. House is an open window, making no illusions to the player about his proposed autocratic status and ex-Bourg origin. Since the wasteland cannot be considered Capitalist (as a true economic analysis of the Fallout universe would lack too many necessary factors to be accurate) we have to assume that the wastes can be best surmised as a scavenger-economy wherein the most valuable resource is electricity and armaments, the wasteland does still have capitalistic elements (the barons of the NCR being a good example, as well as Crimson Caravan and Gunrunners) but lacks the infrastructure to maintain a conventionally capitalist society (and thereby is also incapable of creating a socialist society unless material conditions change).

I'd propose that due to this, the best choice for a Marxist in the wasteland is to side with whichever faction has the best capacity to create industry in the wasteland. All the factions in the maingame (and characters in the DLC hint at this theme, but would take to long to discuss) are representations of differing ideological states: the NCR being a bourgeois dictatorship under the farce of democracy, the Legion being a fascist army with the goals (at least the goals of Caesar) of restarting humanity's cultural progress, and Mr. House who breaks the mold as an autocratic Technocrat. You might refer to House as the supreme corporatist, but he's likely the only one possessing of the ability to either industrialize the wasteland or to simply leave Earth behind for Mars, despite being the most comically capitalist entity in Fallout (a series that from inception was an inherent critique of Nationalist Capitalism), House is likely the best choice for a principled Marxist, the NCR would lead humanity into a similar state of global capitalism, it too perhaps has the capacity to industrialize the wastes like Mr. House (and in face House intends to use them largely for a similar purpose) but Mr. House presents perhaps and easier path, because House is a planned economist, regardless of all the old-world business aesthetic, House is someone who would be a literal computer-god who plans the economy. House claims to be an objective ruler with a more important grand vision than say the short-term emulators of the NCR, who despite their uses to him, House rejects as the planners of the economy (potentially because he recognizes like Caesar, their inherent contradictions). In any event of House winning, the inevitable desire of the Marxist Courier would be to have him killed or deposed, I left out Yesman in this little essay because I thought that would be to filled with assumptions to really consider, because of course the obvious answer would be "courier and yes man takes over and the Comrade Courier uses Yesman to create an epic planned economy, Communism 100." A ending which to me seems really silly to rationalize in the context of the setting, to be clear, I don't think F:NV has any Marxist faction or even a Marxian theme, it's themes are focused around nostalgic ideology and the Gnostic need to either destroy the past or worship it. To the end of advancing the Fallout Universe to the next stage of history, I think Mr. House is the only one who even has the capacity to achieve it, even if he's a terrifying computer God who could only be removed by his "employees" in the most idealized scenario.

As Benny puts it: "Mr House hides Vegas under his skirt when the bombs drop so it's his? forever?" not that Benny is a proletarian revolutionary or anything, but a Mr. House ending would require that House be willing to take on proteges or somehow put himself in a position to be removed, but since that's a question more of game mechanics than narrative, I'll ignore it. Am I wrong? Who do you think a Marxist should choose?
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 No.740

inb4 some wannabe janny tries to send you to the unlisted /games/
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 No.741

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>>740
>unlisted
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 No.742

>>741
It’s very fucky. Like sometimes it’s up their when I visit certain boards but other times it isn’t. It’s weird and buggy mess
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 No.743

>>741
It shows up and disappears at random
I think it's a technical issue
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 No.744

alright I'll post in meme thread
I would say Caesar's Legion would be the best option to begin rebuilding humanity. The war wiped out all means of productions, and I think it is only the strict hierarchy and demands of the army within Caesar's legion that would lead to an increase in agriculture and stockpiling of basic provisions that would allow for more permanent settlements to form and begin to move past a slave society.
The NCR is a bit of a meme faction in that really they shouldn't be as big as they are. They returned to bourgeois society without considering that the society was built for the context of industrialized capitalism. They have currency but the only things to buy are food and clothes, they have a government but the only real purpose to it is maintaining order, they even somehow have light industry despite them not having the agricultural base to support a specialization of labor. This is further supported by dialogue from New Vegas that they will soon suffer food shortages and famine, and the only fix they have to this is expanding but they don't have the government structure, industry, or military to effectively colonize and extract resources from frontier states. I would expect the NCR to fracture into a collection of communes when workers realize they can just eat the food they grow instead of working on a farm for wages and soldiers can get a share from being farm guards rather than an actual standing army. Those communes would then get absorbed by an organized warlord such as Caesar.
Mr. House barely counts as a faction at play here, he's too reliant on life-support literally and metaphorically, he has no real way or want of expanding, just wants to keep to his little city. A force like Caesar's legion could drain the surrounding areas of wealth leaving New Vegas without any inflow of tourism or wealth, though I do not know too much of Mr House to begin with, this is just what I remember from the game.
As to your points, it doesn't matter if House can plan an economy because there is nothing to plan. He is already basically a robber baron trying to consolidate wealth as much as possible, he is a parasite on existing economic systems, not a progressive force. The war destroyed all of society, and imo a marxist analysis would begin with saying the classless agrarian settlements of places like goodspring would be swooped up into a slave society empire that could begin to reconstruct the MoPs and start the transitioning from slave society to feudalism to capitalism. It will go faster this time because of prior knowledge of machinery and such.
but that's just my two cents
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 No.745

>choose a faction
The smart thing to do in the context of the game's plot would be to play all sides for best results. Center around knitting together your own faction by uniting the people who are most helpful, especially by connecting people with the right intent to the resources they need. Special attention should be paid to the Gun Runners who have guns and the knowledge of how to maintain/repair/build and are structured like a co-op, and of course the Followers. Some of the gangs are more appropriate for uniting, like some of the powder ganger groups. Then your goal should be
>SEIZE Mr. House's robots with Yes Man's help
>allow the president to be assassinated causing disorder in the NCR
>take over New Vegas, kick out NCR
>build a people's army supplemented by House robots
>industrialize the Mojave, starting with New Vegas
>wait for Caesar to die and then expand East to bring the barbarians under control
>build productive forces until you can take on the NCR
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 No.746

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>>744
actually i change my mind i remembered pic related exists
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 No.747

Caesar’s legion, fuck liberalism
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 No.748

>>739
All them are shit and i prefer Brotherhood of Steel.
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 No.749

>>745
I think you missed the point of the question a little bit, I don't like this attempt to idealize with the YesMan ending, the point of the thread was to explore the occasional necessity to side with ideological enemies to achieve a grand vision, not actually to theorize about what the best plan for the Mojave is, but rather what the best option is out of the ideologies given
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 No.750

>>739
never played the game, what faction should i pick?
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 No.751

>>746
Actually thinking about the Enclave remnants, the full USA fascists, support the NCR more than Caesar's legiion.
Tells you everything you need to know
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 No.752

>>749
I think your question is the wrong question to ask. Life isn't multiple choice. A video game has to be because of technical limitations. The choice of who to side with is often a false one, and by manipulating the situation (i.e. exercising agency) you can get better results than simply following along with someone else's program. The framing that you have to pick a side is a major ideological hurdle to radical politics.

You can work with these factions or within their system, but in this case none of them are ultimately in a position to fix things. The Legion is a meme that will fall apart when Caesar dies. House doesn't really have a long-term plan that accounts for his mortality. The NCR has trouble holding itself together, much less somewhere as remote as Vegas, and they don't give a shit about the people there anyway. The only reasonable solution is to build a faction that's actually appropriate to the context and make room for it.
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 No.753

Video games are for the mentally ill lumpen
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 No.754

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Yes Man
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 No.755

>>752
Caesar's legion still maintains after Caesar's death ingame, arguably the strict militarism lends stability to the legion
also in your scenario you would just starve xd
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 No.756

NCR is the resumption of liberal democracy and capitalism, House is technocratic fascism, Legion is slave society transitioning to an empire, wildcard is self-determination for the wasteland. Given the setting has technology existing but not being utilized to its full potential due to a combination of population and threats (deathclaws, cazadors, ghouls, etc.) the necessity of requiring capitalism (or previous relationships) is dubious from a Marxist perspective if we are to take Marx's correspondence with Zasulich as Marxist. On top of that, supporting NCR and Legion requires supporting imperialism while supporting House will likely result in New Vegas becoming imperialist to regions as it grows because imperialism is a fact of capitalism. Only wildcard is consistent with any kind of socialist.
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 No.757

House is Elon Mush. Don't fellate the Musk.
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 No.758

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Seriously Roo wrote a book about this, which is hilarious because it's very Roo but overall a pretty decent introduction to Marxist-Leninist concepts in the context of the Fallout games. Anyways both Caesar's Legion and the NCR are imperialists, while Mr. House represents the national bourgeoisie.

>Mr. House is the epitome of the national bourgeoisie. He has his particular interests and particular limitations. A relationship with the NCR and the Mojave in general has been extremely beneficial for him. What he lacks is the military power of the NCR and the Caesar's Legion have. When he carved out his little piece of land he used cunning and a small army of cohesive tribes. This may be enough to sustain his power domestically against smaller tribes and raiders, but it is certainly not enough to defend against the NCR or Legion military. This is the same with the national bourgeoisie in imperialism. The land owners and very large capitalists have a good control over the national government in defending its interests. They however lack the ability to fight off the invading imperialist army. We see this very clearly when we look at Iraq and how domestic large businesses welcome the invaders with open arms. The same occured in China where many very large landlords sided with the Japanese occupiers. The tactic is obvious, in order to preserve their class status in the reformation of society under imperialism, they must ally with the invading force. Regardless of who wins the war the people's needs will be ignored. The national bourgeois are out for their ruling class interests, not the interests of the working and exploited peoples.


As Mao points out the national boojies have a dual character. As Mao said:
>At the present stage the majority of the national bourgeoisie has a growing hatred of the United States and Chiang Kai-shek; its left-wingers attach themselves to the Communist Party and its right-wingers to the Kuomintang, while its middle elements take a hesitant, wait-and-see attitude between the two parties. These circumstances make it necessary and possible for us to win over the majority of the national bourgeoisie and isolate the minority. To achieve this aim, we should be prudent in dealing with the economic position of this class and in principle should adopt a blanket policy of protection. Otherwise we shall commit political errors.

I think Marxists should critically support Mr. House in his independence struggle against the imperialist NCR and Legion. However, at the same time, they should intervene to push the revolutionary process and anti-imperialist struggle forward and side with the Yes Man securitrons to expel the imperialists and overthrow Mr. House in the final mission of the quest line: "No Gods, No Masters."
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 No.759

>>739
Anarchy. All of the options are bad really.
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 No.760

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>Cut version
Hands down Cesar's legion. Guy was supposed to be a Marxist accelerationist who wanted to create material conditions for a proletariat revolution. His path was supposed to end with him being taken down by a slave revolt from his own eastern territories, revealing how this was his plan all along.
>Released version
They are all shit. Legion is the worst, the other ones are so-so. To be honest I'd say Mr. House would probably be the most dialectical choice. NCR is a strictly worse Mr. House ending, as in both cases they end up becoming the dominant force, just more backward without House. Although House victory would highly fuck the material conditions of NCR proletariat that would have to pay for House's charges for power (which, depending on your position, might be good, as, just like Cesar's Legion in the cut version, this only accelerates class conflict.
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 No.761

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>>760
wrong pic version
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 No.762

>>759
They should never make a sequel to New Vegas but if they did they should make the Anarchy Yes Man route the canon one, there´s a lot you can do with the various tribes of the Mojave and how they cooperate and compete within an independent Vegas confederation.
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 No.763

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Fuck you OP for making me want to play the game again.
I choose NCR on my first play through when I was less politically developed and because I thought that they were le epic based civic nationalists who would return civilization to the wasteland.
Second play through I sided with Caesar's Legion because of muh dialectics. The game represents it horrible as Hegel didn't write about dialectics it was the Young Hegelians who did write about it like Marx and the gang. Although joining the Legion makes the game way harder as you make more enemies with the NCR in New Vegas so it kinda makes me feel that the devs didn't want noob players to pick the Legion has it leads to a more difficult experience. Although I'm personally a fan of the barbarism and looting that is done as the game play is way more fun and fits the tone of the wasteland. It's basically some Mad Max type shit.
Mr. House always seemed not trustworthy because he obviously only looks out for himself and the wildcard option is basically you just taking his place a sole autocrat of the last beacon of civilization in the wastes. All the options have their caveats and frankly the devs wanted the player to decide what would be the best option for the future. The amount of personal choice in the game is great and it makes it an all time favorite of mine.
Frankly, the Boomers and the Brotherhood of Steel would be the best factions at instituting a post-apoplectic socialist society as they have the necessary skills, technology, and labor to do so.
Kinda hated how the legion is anti-technology it really destroys the whole "dialectic" shit Caesar talks about and just reveals him to be another reactionary strongman who just wants to conquer land.
&ltNCR
>Reinstate the fallen order and re-create America from the ashes of the waste. Run into the same problems eventually
&ltLegion
>Conquer land and re-enact the Roman Empire/Republic in hopes that the LARP will turn out differently. It probably won't
&ltHouse
>Ancapistan utopia in the desert
&ltWildcard
>Depends on your politics. Either just another House or enlightened philosopher king
BIG IRON ON HIS HIP
BIG IRON BIG IRON
HIS NAME WAS TEXAS RED
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 No.764

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>>760
>Guy was supposed to be a Marxist accelerationist who wanted to create material conditions for a proletariat revolution. His path was supposed to end with him being taken down by a slave revolt from his own eastern territories, revealing how this was his plan all along.
Source?
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 No.765

>>764
Anon on /hobby/
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 No.766

>>765
Caesar was just a spaz who found some Hegel.
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 No.767

>>764
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyeTaXv6o4Y
It's in the game, they just didn't flesh out the faction and quests the way they planned because of budget cuts.
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 No.768

>>767
This is a purely fascist reading of Hegel. Gulag.
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 No.769

>tfw all the LARPers itt that think you can just jump from barely agrarian settlements to socialism because you have technology
sorry friends, we need to autocracy of caesar to form the broad agrarian base that will allow specialization of labor to kick in before we can industrialize
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 No.770

>>769
they have robots that can make things and lots of experts that know how to use technology
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 No.771

>>768
Caesar is also canonically a brainlet.
>6 ST, 5 PE, 6 EN, 4 CH, [b]4 IN[/b], 5 AG, 5 LK
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 No.772

>>739
I'd say Caesar even though his philosophy is the 15 year old fascist's reaction to reading Hegel's Wikipedia page for the first time. In this hollowed out version of the game his system can unintentionally develop adequate means of production. Or you can choose Wild Card ending and try to be like Mao and build socialism from a semi-feudal system.
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 No.773

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>>771
that only helps the socialist cause
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 No.774

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>>750
Since your an Anarchist I suggest Yes Man because the ending quest for that path is called "No Gods, No Masters".
>>739
>Marxists Playthrough
You fools. In Old World Blues it is confirmed the Courier has no idea what Communism is. But I will humor you since I completed the game just yesterday. Overall the Legion is the best option for the wasteland because they're ability to actually reestablish Civilization. They're the only the faction on the end slides were Civilization is even mentioned. Ceasar is right as well to criticize the NCR for trying to bring back Liberal Democracy because it is just repeating the same faults of the US, including Imperialist expansion (pic related) for recourses under the guides of Democracy. What are the NCR going to do once they get the Mojave? Fuck over the inhabitants, in one ending they even genocide the Great Khans entirely. This is literally what Ceasar is doing but he is at least honest about and can actually get it done. Talking with Cass implies that there is still raiders in the NCR and there to pussy to do it. Mr. House? Literally makes an Ancapistan where his New Vegas reigns supreme fucking over the poverty in Free Side and keeping Hoover Dam all for himself because he rich and has robots so he right. Yes Man? The Wasteland gets more violent because there is just Vegas acting as the big Authority. Also, at the end of that line he found a program that makes him more accretive so who's to say he won't kill the Courier and become a Mr House AI.
TL;DR: Legion good because they brings civilization and purpose to the wastelands. Also let Ceasar live because Lanius is a dumb warmonger who just kills for the fun of it rather serving a higher purpose.
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 No.775

Caesar's Legion to spark a Spartacus style uprising.
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 No.776

>>774
NCR are cringe
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 No.777

>>769
Wouldn´t the NCR accomplish the same thing but with bourgeois democracy?
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 No.778

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>>760
>His path was supposed to end with him being taken down by a slave revolt from his own eastern territories, revealing how this was his plan all along.
the legion could have been fleshed out a bit more but this is literally never happens.
like i know it's a video game, but this is how accelerationists actually think.
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 No.779

>>777
the NCR formed a bourgeois democracy divorced from an existing bourgeoisie class, they implement money and a free market despite the majority things that are sold are food and clothes
Their farms are already controlled by big monopolies and they are expecting famines to occur
They're doomed to fail because they expand on a needs basis and their fundamental need is in the hands of a small minority that could go full libertarian revolt at anytime and shatter the NCR
on the other handCaesar's legion expands in an imperial context and can force an agricultural base to expand by demanding tribute which feeds the army to expand even more. Only surplus can allow industrialization to occur.
>>778
Caesar's legion isn't about accelerating the contradictions of slave society, it is about establishing a slave society so that humanity can begin to progress again. History is of class struggle, no class = no struggle = stagnation.
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 No.780

Any option but Wildcard. We need a strong faction to develop productive forces.
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 No.781

I don't see why you would compare mrhouse with trump, he's probably the most communist leaning side you get in the game
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 No.782

>>750
the khans are probably your friends, try not to get in trouble with them
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 No.783

>>762
TBH at first I was angry New Vegas never considered communist or Indigenous people being rising factions. I mean if Caesar had access to Hegel, surely he must have had access to Marx? But now I think I know why it doesn't; its because New Vegas isn't meant to be a realistic simulation, its a distillation of the what the United States of America is. We see, even after the world has ended settler colonialism and capitalism haven't. Even without Indigenous people's, the former white people, the former black people and all other ethnicities have formed their own indigenous groups, but even in an apocalyptic wasteland they cannot find peace avoid settler colonialism, whether that's the NCR trying to erase and absorb Indigenous groups in the Mojave such as the Boomers, 4 tribes of The Strip, The Kings, the Great Khans ect, or the Legion destroying and integrating Indigenous people like the Hangdogs, Twisted Hairs, Whitelegs ect. Even the Courier isn't exempt from committing genocide, having accidentally destroyed Hopeville.

Whether the writers intended it or not, New Vegas is the USA boiled down to it's gelatin. People, even in a post-racial world, even after the Apocalypse, after anything, cannot escape settler colonialism, genocide and capitalism.
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 No.784

>>783
In the Fallout universe the Soviet Union was still around in 2077 when the bombs fell, and China was the primary communist superpower.
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 No.785

>>784
Yeah but notably, they're gone. In fact, the rest of the world is gone, only the USA survives in any recognisable form.
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 No.786

House, seize the machinery and transition to a fully automated society
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 No.787

>>750
just play however you feel as you gain more insight about them and their goals. With that said, there is a bug in the game where if you piss of the legion, they send high level assassin's after you. Outside of the legion, don't worry too much if factions hate you because a main quest in New Vegas resets any faction animosity, but only once
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 No.788

>>785
Evidence of this? The player never gets to go there.
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 No.789

>>788
In Fallout law, its generally assumed if a place hasn't been elaborated or heard from, its gone.
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 No.790

>>789
I mean its across the ocean. We don't hear anything about Africa or South America but there is good reason to imagine they would at least be better off than the United States, given they would be nuked a lot less.
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 No.791

>>790
Possibly, we know a little bit about South America since the Rangers on New Vegas Radio are said to be campaigning in Baja California. But the narrative is purely about the USA.
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 No.792

>>785
But there are characters who are explicitly stated to have immigrated from Europe
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 No.793

>>739
I don't understand the main objective of many people here, that is to find the fastest way to industrialize to get to the socialist society. I understand the (acceleracionnist) point, but they forget one thing : to have an industry going on a mass scale, you need resources. The war began because there was a lack of ressources, and they couldn't miniaturize to use less of it. Barren as the world is, there is no possibility to do anything more complex than basic light industry.

considering all this, the best bet would be to side with what looks like a powerful commune, and build an agrarian workers' paradise
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 No.794

>>780
wildcard has vegas working with the boomers and the Great Khans, combined they have more civilizational potential without the drawbacks of either Caesar or NCR
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 No.795

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>NCR will need to reprioritize as their fresh water dwindles, domestic unrest breaks out
>the Legion will be torn apart by civil war once Caesar succumbs to brain cancer
>House is only interested in playing the Vegas families for his own end; left unchecked, the Omeratas coup him. Long term he can't keep them in line
Autonomous Vegas seems the only sound option here. Long term, a coalition between the Followers Westside, Boomers, Khans, and the Kings would be necessary to pry the NCR off the Mojave.
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 No.796

>>795
I would love a game where you manage the petty politics between the tribes of the Mojave while holding off the NCR and the Legion, both of whom are still pissed at the Courier long after they´re dead
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 No.797

Kill Ceasar, Kill House make deals with most of the other factions. Re-programme Yes-Man if reprogramming Yes man is impossible then destroy Yes man and all the other robots before they become a threat. Take control of New Vegas. Then it depends on the situation and what control would entail.

I have a sizeable army of robots, gang members, freesiders famillies boomers etc so I'm assuming the NCR is too beaten down after the battle of Hoover Dam btw I make sure to weaken the NCR sufficiently before using them to take out Ceasar. Then the NCR becomes my customer. I have control over Hoover Dam and have massive amounts of energy and outgun the NCR so I sign a treaty with the NCR and double the amount of bottle caps I charge them for energy because Fuck them and then use a sizable amount of the proceeds to corrupt their entire leadership and command and control and officers at key strategic locations. I want all their troops and citizens into my casinos shops and hotels consuming all the drugs and booze. I have a an alliance with the Great Khans and thry supply drugs to New Vegas. Tongoverb I just have a council of the Casino famillies Gang members Fresside shop owners bottle cap manufacturers Brahmin herders and all the other relevant factions. Ofcourse they all want to kill me but they all hate each other equally and I vastly overpower them so it litterlay runs itself.

After a steady stream of bottle cap income and monopoly of force firmly established under my control I then leave this setup to be guarded by the system I just created and continue my adventures going to fight evil with my loyal companions.
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 No.798

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>>739
I notice they've not been mentioned yet,
but don't forget about the nukes from Lonesome Road
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 No.799

The NCR. Capitalism is more advanced than slave societies. If Ceaser were serious about his own philosophy(its not really hegelian but thats another topic), he would immediately become a dengist and beat the NCR at their own game, he has a greater pool of labor.

Of course in the terms of the game, taking over with Yes Man or whatever is the "best" option, but this is sort of an individualist ideological escape from the real conflict.
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 No.800

>>796
I can see conflict between the Khans, who drug out the fiends, and Westside, who is actively under siege from said fiends. Maybe after the fiends are wiped out, the Khans can producing medical supplies in exchange for crops from Vegas?
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 No.801

Legion has no future, Caesar's Legion is an epitome of "le working well on paper" as there is no sign of a functional leadership to takeover when he dies, which by the look of things will happen either soon, or sooner. One of his big plot points, if I remember correctly, is looking for a suitable heir. The way his Legion enforces military discipline through corporal punishment and random acts of violence is comically ineffective. Further more, has Legion shown any signs of being able to commit to grand acts of architecture and infrastructure, beyond merely securing the roads from raiders? The actual material conditions that made Rome step up from it's neighbors. The brunt of Legion's forces, the tip of the spear that will roll back the NCR and ensure a new Rome can't even fix a single howitzer, something that the player can do, given the right parts, without any required technical expertise. Whether he wants it or not Ceaser is a LARPer par excellence, though something he is not aware himself.

Mr. House boasts often about his capability for organization and production, as the only real force to bolster productive forces in the post-war America, but so far his actual accomplishments have been far from impressive. Thanks to his own legion of pre-war robots, he managed to jump start electricity production (thanks to a lucky geographical and infrastructural position first and foremost) and restart Vegas. But what is the real accomplishment of Vegas? Bringing some tribes to heel thanks to superior firepower (and given incidents with Omerta family and White Gloves, not even that good), making them play out pre-war fantasies and fixations (something the Kings done without much outside influence) and most importantly bringing back the scale of gambling unimaginable before into the post-apocalypse. For all his technocratic boasting, his most impressive practical achievement has been hooking up wastelander scavengers and junkers to slot machines and sitting them down to poker tables. Beyond the sheer income force of this economic model, New Vegas is hardly a self sustainable model, given that most food production seems to be handled by the NCR. Much like Vegas itself, it's all glitter and glamour made to impress the player with promises of the far, far future, the actual scale of achievements is far from jaw dropping.

Meanwhile, Westside is a much more humble, and often overlooked part of the game. A small, relatively thriving community (thanks to Followers of the Apocalypse) with a self sustaining food production, internal security force and a limited, but decent trade economy, despite sitting on the edges of Fiend's territory, one of the most brutal, aggressive and erratic of the wasteland's raiders. Westside's success, if the game offers it in one single word is "co-ops", as in farming co-ops that help the community stand on it's own as a self sufficient model. Though not particularly powerful or influential, they are certainly lot more stable then Freeside or New Vegas Square communities. If there is any "message" supplanted by the in-game information, it's that any hope of the future lies in the model of the Followers of the Apocalypse and their efforts to reach out communities, tribes and cultures such as Westside. Even Great Khans, raiders that they are, are a better potential force for the wastelands future then either Caesar, Mr. House or NCR's bourgeois apparatus. It's not about replenishing civilization, it's about taking the material conditions of the wasteland and building a society that suites them, a society that can therefore extract required resources to build it's own productive forces.

I could be wrong on all accounts, this is only from my memory and there could be material outside of the game that completely lays waste to my room temperature takes.
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 No.802

Communists either side with the NCR; which at best is a social democracy that respects the equality of all its citizens, and offers an adequate social safety net. It could probably be reformed by someone like the Courier into some Marx envision - a Dotp based on a Democratic Republic.
Another option would be to pursue an Independent New Vegas - the New Vegas Commune, if you will, that gradually socializes industry and agriculture based on syndicalization of all businesses and co-operativization of agriculture.
The Legion is a reactionary, proto-fascist dictatorship that enslaves and massacres other races. Any Communist government would to immediately make a pact with anyone to eliminate them immediately.
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 No.803

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>>739
>THREAD WILL BE MOVED TO >>>/games/ TOMORROW AS THE GODS space_ HAVE GRANTED US A LINK TO SAID BOARD IN THE NAVBAR
WAKE ME UP
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 No.804

>>769
This is ironic because Marx rejected this view in the Manifesto, and quite literally said you could jump stages. I know that MLS don't read the Manifesto, or anything really, so they would miss this key detail.
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 No.805

One of the themes of NV is the trouble that comes from Old World echoes. House is a relic of that world, as is Hoover Dam, while the NCR tries to emulate pre-war America with twisted nostalgia, not much unlike the Legion with their pseudo-Roman charade. The same theme about being stuck in or with the past repeats itself in the Big Empty (literally "Old World Blues"), the Sierra Madre, Zion Canyon, and on the Long 15.
Considering that, all the major factions are more or less the same. Much like scavengers, they're trying to build a future from scrap. But that's not a sustainable path.

>>799
There is the question whether capitalism is compatible with the Wasteland. Fluff-text implies that as the NCR has developed and the land has been scraped clean of any scrap worth scavenging, the Republic has been forced to act in an expansionist manner to acquire more resources and to provide an internal refuge to a constant exodus of citizens fleeing wage slavery for the promise of opportunity in the periphery. Once again, a reference towards the Old World, the age of the rugged cowboy and the settler.
But as it has done so it has become stretched thin. The NCR appears to be at risk of regressing into Robber Baron feudalism led by the Brahmin lords before being able of achieving an actual anti-capitalist zeitgeist. There may be a century, or even several centuries of troubles and tribulations ahead before conditions become favorable for that. Who knows, the NCR might fracture and fall apart in that time.

As such, I would personally prefer an independent Vegas where the Kings and the Followers have sway. The Mojave is a strange place, so I cannot imagine anyone but the locals, those who are familiar and accustomed to the challenges of the region, being able of building without suffering a sustainable future in the region. Westside speaks for that.
To achieve permanent success, one does not only need to change the material relations and the productive forces of a community, but foster a collection of certain values, a self-sustaining culture which values maintaining Socialism, or whatever they'd call it as the 2200's roll towards the 24th century. People in the Mojave already value cooperation, getting paid your worth, and deserving a say in matters which touch you. The Kings speak of kindness, the Followers are building mutual aid, and Westside fosters a budding seed. These things provide an opportunity unlike any other.

After all, a new world calls for new solutions. A shame the independence ending is so vague and unfinished, when there's so much nuance and variation that could've been wrung out of it. Perhaps the devs cut it as time and money was being pulled from under them, as to keep the other options viable.

Reposted because I fucked up.
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 No.806

>>804
*citation needed*
just use some common sense
the NCR are literally on the brink of famine because they decided to expand light industry instead of their agricultural base
Caesar's slave society and stockpiling of food mimics the palace economies in the ancient near east where specialization of labor was first able to take place
NCR are a subsistence economy larping as democratic capitalists, it's only a matter of time until the farmer lords shatter the NCR because they control the food and the NCR does not have enough stockpiles to fight a civil war
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 No.807

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>>806
Yeah, no, dude you're just wrong here.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/zasulich/draft-1.htm
What should be done is the encouragement of collective farming in the New Vegas, the securitrons could easily be diverted to make this easier, along with cultural revolution, and the socialization of industry around New Vegas, and outside of it. Common sense would dictate that New Vegas' superior military technology, along with a pact with the Brotherhood of Steel, could be used to crush Caesar's dictatorship, and integrate his slaves, surrendered troops back into society as productive members. Their nearly conquered territory could also be used for resources.
And if the NCR disintegrates, you still have the robots and the dam, so you would in a position to secure that land when they're done killing each other. The Enclave Remnants could also be called upon to suppress counter-attacks from them.
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 No.808

>>739
>What faction would a principled Marxist side with in Fallout: New Vegas?

Powder Gangers
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 No.809

>>807
>it's in the manifesto!
&ltactually it is in one of his random correspondences
epic
As your source states the situation in Russia was unique in that the communal mode survived into a time where Russia's contemporaries were practicing capitalism, thereby allowing the commune to reap the fruits of capitalism without instituting capitalism
This is completely different from the fallout-verse where all the means of production have been destroyed by nuclear war.
Of course if there existed the technology or base to support a modern society then we would but there simply isn't
The NCR are already scavenging tech hard to try and find a way to improve their agricultural output, and if they do find it then they're position is much more tenable, but I would counter that the scavenging and expansionary nature of the Legion is much more capable of supporting these expeditions and would be more likely to consolidate the tech left by the old world.
As for the rest of your post, you are essentially saying the same thing I am saying. To form an agricultural base of farms (that I assume you mean would produce surplus not sustenance) and use that to support industry which isn't skipping history, it is just speedrunning slave-society to socialism.
We're in agreement here and I would support your position, but OP excluded the wild card ending and Mr. House isn't interested in doing much outside of his little bubble, so Caesar and his dictatorship is the only faction that 1. expands enough and 2. has the political structure to implement agrarian policy.
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 No.1679

>>791
>South America
>Baja California
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 No.1680

>>802
>Communists either side with the NCR; which at best is a social democracy that respects the equality of all its citizens, and offers an adequate social safety net.
The NCR is a feudal state run by literal barons always risking a possible famine. Also they basically attempted to genocide the Khans.

>Another option would be to pursue an Independent New Vegas - the New Vegas Commune, if you will, that gradually socializes industry and agriculture based on syndicalization of all businesses and co-operativization of agriculture.

Would immediately get destroyed by a larger faction.

>The Legion is a reactionary, proto-fascist dictatorship that enslaves and massacres other races. Any Communist government would to immediately make a pact with anyone to eliminate them immediately.

They're not any more genocidal than the NCR (see: Bitter Springs massacre) and one could argue the authoritarianism is necessary to build up industry.
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 No.1715

>>1680
Are you forgetting that the New Vegas Commune has the securitron army as well as the combined forces of whatever factions you joined forces with? Even if you choose to not upgrade the securitrons for no reason, you still have an army of powerful, heavily-armored robot soldiers as well as air support from the Boomers as well as support on the ground from the Kings and other groups. Both the NCR and Legion would outnumber the Commune's forces but it's unlikely that either would try invading given how fierce and obstinate the resistance would be.
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 No.1718

A principled Marxist would play a better game.
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 No.1720

>>1680
no dude, it's a literal slave run society, that's way more ancient than what ever the NCR is doing
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 No.1724

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All you pussies fail to realize that Mr House is the single most dialectical choice here. His victory, from all that we hear, would restart humanity. Not just a shitty society that is barely surviving and struggling, but a modern, and even a space traveling civilization. Would it be brutal in some regards? Yes, it would basically be modern capitalism, however it is very idealist to expect for a better, socialist future to emerge from the barely industrial (and in most cases not even that).
Also the game, while well made, has dogshit factions and its really just the case of picking which is least shit:
>Legion
A bunch of slaver larpers following a dying leader. His vision is pretty bad, but things will only get worse with his death
>NCR
A meh imperialist state. Probably will get the region over time back under to barely-prewar conditions. Their capitalist system doesn't make them
>Free Vegas
At absolute best it's an ancom commune. And? How is that going to help anyone outside Vegas? And more likely they would just be a shitshow of many infighting gangs, like the Vegas before House gets the chip, just without House.
>House
Same as NCR, but can transform the entire setting and achieve far better results than the NCR would.
To me he is quite an obvious choice.
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 No.1725

>>1724
go lick elon musks boot, I'll take an anrcho commune over any space colonialists
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 No.1760

>>1725
Without the proper material conditions, your anacho commune is destined to fail and die of hunger. Read Marx
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 No.1762

>>1679
Reminder that Tijuana is at a higher latitude than half of Texas
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 No.1778

>>1724
i agree but i disagree regarding the legion, i feel like you haven't actually read the rest of the posts in this thread
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 No.1781

>>1724
An "anarcho-commune" with AI controlled robotic cops running around
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 No.1783

>>1760
well it didn't happen in game so fuck you!
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 No.1816

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NCR. House is an impotent capitalist leech and Legion needs no commenting.
>but he promised we'd go to space
So does Musk but you're hopefully not sucking him off for it. All House does is rip off tourists and bully locals. He's not going to turn around and develop anything worthwhile just because he's got an army of murderbots.
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 No.1827

>>1816
You do realize that House ending is just NCR+ ending, right? The space thing is only a cherry on top. His real goal is to harness the existing capitalist elements of the NCR in order to, well, quite literally develop the productive forces:
>The city's economy is a blast furnace in which can be forged the steel of a new rail line, running straight to a new horizon. What is the NCR? A society of people desperate to experience comfort, ease, luxury… A society of customers. With all that money pouring in? Give me 20 years, and I'll reignite the high technology development sectors.
In the end, his path would end up just like the NCR one, just with far more developed society, not one that is barely at industrial levels. Eventually the chance for socialism to arise within the NCR is far higher under better material conditions, and especially once more advanced technology is utilized. Reminder that pre-war Fallout setting didn't yet have the transistor. With House in charge of Vegas, the possibility for technological development might fill this hole, allowing for the computational power needed for socialism. And, as much of a meme the space shit is, it would definitely help long term with resources. All of this would likely take NCR alone centuries to achieve.
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 No.1949

>>771
isn't the intelligence hit he has because of his brain tumor
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 No.1968

UNCRITICAL SUPPORT FOR OUR KHAN COMRADES !!!
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 No.1970

>>1827
ROBERT HOUSE IS A DENGIST AGENT OF THE PRC
HE IS GOING TO DEVELOVEP THE NCR TO BRING SOCIALISM WITH CALIFORNIAN CHARACTERISTICS
SOCIALISM BY 2300
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 No.1981

Do the old fallouts go into detail on how China was organized politically? were they actual commies or dengists?
there was no mention of them in new vegas and 3 and 4 they're just the ebil red gommies
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 No.1999

>>1981
I don't remember there being any significant times China was mentioned in the first two, and the wiki itself says that it's unknown if it was still Maoist at the time the bombs fell or not.
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 No.2012

>>1724
>>1827
On the other hand, House has been in control for close to a decade, and even the so-called luxury of the strip consists mostly of jury-rigged scrap and scavenge. If he has a "plan" to get "high tech" running withing 20 more years, you'd expect he'd already have some kind of workshops or light industry prepared.
Among the Soviet five-year plans, the hardest one was the first: The process of building the industry and infrastructure which'll build industry and infrastructure. You must have something to get something, and that takes time.
If Vegas is currently relying on scavenging and repurposed scrap, it most definitely doesn't have the basics of maintaining itself, not to even mention the tools that House's robot army requires for its upkeep. Once the NCR and the Legion have been driven out of the Mojave, a clock is ticking and resources bleeding. Without the right tools, manufacturing, know-how, and equipment, his small empire will face attrition. And considering how lackluster his preparations have been in the past seven years on that front, "twenty years" may be both an overly optimistic goal and far too late.

Not to even mention he basically sat on his ass for 126 years after regaining consciousness, doing practically speaking nothing.
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 No.2065

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>>2012
tbf The Strip does look like shit because of time limitations. It was supposed to be like 10x bigger I think.

>>1999
The dialogue with the Chinese captain in FO4 seems to imply that at least they were not capitalist like in USA
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 No.2066

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 No.2105

>>739
Independent Vegas with all the gangs and House destroyed while siding with the Followers of the Apocalypse would have the greatest potential for a New Vegas Commune. The Followers are undoubtedly anarchists and since they were the ones who introduced Cesar to Hegel they probably have hella Marxist theory
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 No.2134

>>2105
I always thought that too, but it makes sense that in the independent ending the Followers would be overwhelmed when you look at the huge problems Vegas has plus how tiny they are. So what do you do, maintain the casinos for caps to prop them up, build up mutual aid networks and the lightest industry possible? Sure, you won't have the Omerta or White Glove Society but you're still sucking people from all over the NCR dry for one city. You shut down the casinos, then the city becomes isolated with no new resources coming in.

I really don't see anything but NCR annexation providing opportunities for a brighter future, if not only to give the Followers time to rebuild.
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 No.2140

>>2134
Minor point, but the Good Karma ending for Old World Blues mentions how you leak beneficial tech into the Mojave from time to time. That aside, I do find it kinda odd how an Indy Vegas gets fucked even if you literally kill every fucker that could cause trouble in the future for its citizens (Powder Gangers, Fiends the BoS). Like, I can, for example, understand Novac due to its ending and proximity to a Legion camp, but still it is largely the NCR who takes the hit for you.
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 No.2141

>>2134
>You shut down the casinos, then the city becomes isolated with no new resources coming in.
Control of the Hoover Dam (and Helios) provides electricity and water. The Followers already make implants, and with additional capital and support from Big MT could move their cybernetics work forward.
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 No.2142

>>2140
You're right, I forgot about it but it does change things. I do think Big MT is too much of a magic wand though and prefer to be a bit more realistic for this.

Even if you killed the problem groups, more could easily reform or move in in the time it takes to get real governance and defense setup. A lot of them would even come from desperate locals, since the NCR military caps coming in would plummet right away

>>2141
Nearly infinite electricity and water are wonderful for their situation, but there's only a limited amount of electronics, scrap metals, prewar meds etc. in the area which are probably gonna run out after a couple centuries of prospectors and scavengers picking it dry. You can't make implants out of sand and water, and New Vegas is pretty resource poor when you look at the kind of world and economy they live in. Big MT is too unrealistically silly to even consider, but if we're going to consider it the Courier shepherded the technology to leak into the wastes due to the danger of exposing Big MT and its power so it's not an option. Plus I don't believe those lunatics could keep up with the logistical challenge of resupplying New Vegas, there's a lot more involved in that than throwing lobotomites and roboscorpions at each other.

I just can't see any way out for New Vegas as much as I want to
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 No.2143

>>2142
>You're right, I forgot about it but it does change things. I do think Big MT is too much of a magic wand though and prefer to be a bit more realistic for this.
I understand, and tbh the throw-away line about how the Think Tank scrubbed away your ability to actually tell people about the Big MT was put there to put a cap on excesses.

As to the rest, my "confusion" mostly arise from the ending slides, which go on about how every raider group met their ends at your hands, only to still lead to a mess, without at least an explanation (i.e. in the other faction endings like NCR, we got told how Primm became prosperous through annexation, to name a thing). Could have been like "without a big name army like NCR or Legion around to intimidate them, punching bags like the Jackals reemerge to use the situation to their advantage", or something else. Taking the slides at it face value, they seem kinda contradictory.
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 No.2147

>>2143
I'm think you touched on the other half of what the problem is, the Securitrons are just too robotic to properly maintain order in the wasteland compared to the NCR and Legion. I mean I could see Yes Man relaying issues to the Courier that need a human touch, like the Courier could be the central node of a wider mutual aid network but again time and all that.

I think it's probably a combination of liberal writers thinking the only safe way forward is recreate the old world with the NCR, plus time and budget constraints. I remember reading they were much more ambitious about what they wanted to do when development started
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 No.2148

>>2147
Or, now that I think about it, that Follower who helped create Yes Man could probably tweak him to have a backbone and will to move him closer to Cybersyn with robot appendages. Basically House but a robot communist, which would smooth things over
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 No.2973

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Always House. You need a high tech industrialized society before you can abolish classes. Also House is based as fuck to be honest. He doesn't even exploit anyone's labor really as he uses mindless robots for all his duties. He is probably the best kind of capitalist that could exist.

HOUSE ALWAYS WINS
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 No.2982

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Friendly reminder.
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 No.2984

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>>2982
I love how Obsidian made him this superficially smart and charismatic leader, but everyone you ever talk to confirms that he is a delusional maniac, the whole Legion is completely unsustainable and destined to collapse the moment he dies or they run out of places to pillage.
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 No.2985

>>2984
>>2982
reminder that ceaser is how the libertarian devs saw Stalin and the soviets. Red, Hegel, slavery.
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 No.3049

>>763
>Although joining the Legion makes the game way harder as you make more enemies with the NCR in New Vegas so it kinda makes me feel that the devs didn't want noob players to pick the Legion has it leads to a more difficult experience
The real reason was that they didn't have time to actually add all of the Legion content they had planned so they just left it heavily lopsided towards NCR territory which naturally makes the game harder if you choose Legion.
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 No.3156

Has Jason Unruhe ever said which faction he supported?
I'm interested in his opinion
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 No.3402

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Ashur did nothing wrong
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 No.3404

>>1999
China is barely mentioned in Fallout 1 and 2 at all, I seem to recall finding out more about the soviet union through the tiny amount of info you can glean from Natalia's blurb at the character select screen in FO1 than you do about China over the entirety of both games

>>2985
Per the devs themselves he is based off of people like Charles Taylor, Timur leng and a few different Crusaders more than any communist

>Red

Borrowed from school boy level understanding of Roman history, design wise makes the legion visually distinctive and makes them contrast the drab, turn of the 20th century looking NCR and random cowboy people in the Mojave

>Slavery

The legion deliberately eschews modern technology and mechanisation in favour of building an artificial, syncretic state based on a half remembered and heavily debased knowledge of the Roman Empire adapted for the wasteland, they need slave labour both as a means of breaking down and re-integrating conquered people into the amorphous, constructed entity they are building and to replace the efficiency loss of not using machines, the legion is essentially an army in need of a state that its trying to make itself, it doesn't have the economic or infrastructural development, quite deliberately so, to advance past a slave economy

>Hegel

He sees the legion and the NCR in these terms, he doesn't feel like Caesar and the Legion doesn't feel like an empire, flagstaff doesn't feel like Rome etc. he needs a Carthage, which will be the NCR, and a proper Rome, which will be vegas, before his new entity will actually be realised he must destroy its antagonist to be able to complete the transition from group of bandits to fledging state, thesis, antithesis, synthesis he says as much in game (also plays into the Charles Taylor inspiration in that he's a relatively educated man running a shitshow kingdom that was previously relatively isolated, letting his own weird views on thing and personal obsessions influence the course of his entire kingdom)
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 No.3657

I think the best thing about FNV is if you sit back and really think about it even in the most positive ending for the NCR its still completely fucked, as its so incredibly corrupt and inefficient already to be losing a war to a group of illiterate bandits that think self loading weapons are dangerously high tech and only let their most elite of elite units have them when the NCR itself gives almost every soldier an AR15, a full uniform, a steel helmet and webbing, and has railways, at least a Handful of attack aircraft that are like HIND D's on steroids (which given that they continue to operate and maintain would imply they at least have the knowledge to produce lower tech fixed wing aircraft) and fleets of trucks, all while having a larger, more literate, more productive population than the legion does and nothing the courier does in the mojave really does anything to change that other than maybe bumping up the careers of a few more proficient military officers and helping the followers out a bit with some minor stuff

The eventual desperate cash grab FNV sequel should be the NCR Civil war brought on by rampant corruption
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 No.4386

>>739
The dead horses
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 No.4442

>communism can only be achieved through following a Fascist slave owning society
You're beginning to scare me
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 No.4493

NCR has more developed productive forces, more technology and more trade. Undoubtedly the Marxist choice, Caesar is a retard who will delay any chance of progress, even if the NCR is bad.
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 No.4494

>>4493
The best move would be pitting NCR against the Legion and hoping they both implode actually. NCR is corrupt but has a lot of manpower and a more developed society so they could last a long time even if the Legion gradually wins militarily. Legion has a much less developed economy so could get hit by a famine or something and lose way more than the NCR would. Also a much less developed military so can only really win in ambushes.
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 No.4496

>>4493
>>4494
And anyone who says House is a retard. He's a literal neo-feudalist with a robot army.
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 No.4511

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>>739
YES BRO EASILY
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 No.4512

>>4442
It's called historical materialism
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 No.4513

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 No.4526

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>>758
pdf of said book
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 No.6138

This is the most leftist thread on the board IMO
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 No.6158

>What faction would a principled Marxist side with in Fallout: New Vegas?
whatever the character you're roleplaying as would join

you know that's what wrpgs are, right?
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 No.6566

What do you guy think of New Canaan? To me they seem like a settler colony but without the imperialism and racism somehow. The only thing they care to spread is Mormonism and medical knowledge. They're still pretty paternalistic, both Joshua Graham and Daniel call the Sorrows childlike or naive and superstitious. It's weird for sure.

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