This Place Is A Dump

WASTED POTENTIAL... i keep thinking about how they were going to be a Proper Faction with reputation and a way to possibly improve their living conditions and i get so mad. i do not like that they're Nameless Raiders you get lots of good karma for killing. i understand that a big part of their deal is that severe dependence on hard drugs and the desperation that causes can make you do really terrible things, and that such environments attract horrible people who enjoy being able to easily manipulate and exploit others in such a vulnerable position--i think those are interesting matters to explore. but as they are in the game its just like, whoa, look how fucked up and depraved these guys are, all of them, lets wipe them out. i don't like that at all. feels like only corporal betsy ever expresses feeling bad for any of them, and only fleetingly. theyre people on the margins of society, with no access to basic necessities and with nothing to their names except drugs and weapons; they're exploited by their leaders who keep them in these conditions, impoverished and addicted and hostile and with nowhere else to go. ncr's solution is to just snipe them, because of course it is. i wish anything changed for the fiends after their leaders have been taken out. fuck motor-runner, cook-cook et al, but i hate the idea of waging war against a bunch of desperate aimless sick people who were abandoned by the rest of the world to instead serve as some guy's personal army. in an ideal version of fallout new vegas there wouldve been a way to solve this problem without indiscriminately killing a bunch of people. like, god, what a waste.