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As the Republic grew😮🌱so did its needs. Scouts 🏃🏃spread east ➡️➡️seeking 🔍👀territory and wealth 🤑 in the dry ☀️and merciless ☠️🦂expanse of the 🌵Mojave Desert🌵. They returned with tales 🗣of a city 🌃🏙untouched by the ☄️warheads 💣 that had scorched 🔥🔥the rest of the world 🌏and a great wall 🚧spanning the Colorado River🏞. The NCR mobilized⏩ its army 🔫😯and set it east➡️ to occupy👥the Hoover Dam 🚰🚿and restore💯 it to working condition. But across the Colorado, another 😲society had 🔼arisen🔼under a different flag. 🚩A vast army of ⛓slaves😱😰, forged in the conquest⚔️ of 8️⃣6️⃣ tribes: Caesar’s Legion. 🐂Four years have passed⏭ since the Republic held 🙌the Dam, just barely😪, against the Legion’s 😤onslaught. The Legion did not🙅‍♂️retreat. Across➡️the River, they gathered strength 💪Campfires 🔥burned🔥training drums🥁beat. Through it all, the 💸New Vegas Strip 🎲has stayed open 😉for business 💼💰under the control of its ❓mysterious❓overseer, 🖥Mr. House👴 and his army of rehabilitated Tribals and police robots 👮🤖

Fallout 4 → Colored Intro

the thing is, after 24 hours of no sleep, people experience irritability, increased fatigue, impaired judgment and coordination, concentration and memory issues, increased cortisol, adrenaline, and blood sugar. not off to a great start, and the courier + team will be stressed enough already, especially christine

after 48 hours, a phenomenon called microsleep begins to take place, which is a brief period (several seconds) during which the brain enters complete unconsciousness. this is involuntary, and though a person may resist it, another period of microsleep will quickly follow. a person's eyes may remain open, but they are unconscious and cannot receive visual input during the microsleep

after 72 hours, fatigue and cognitive issues worsen drastically. additionally, a person may experience depression, paranoia, and hallucinations

Like what about “my sister was murdered by raiders and then so was this woman I met later who I cared about because she reminded me of my sister and that’s my whole story as a character” conducive to “I guess these raiders who abuse and enslave women aren’t so bad when you’re not under threat from them directly just because they keep small-time raider groups off the roads”

E.g. the tribes in HH were supposed to be racially diverse (so there’d be white, black, hispanic, and Asian Dead Horses for example) but they didn’t have time to make that many tattooed skins so they had to more or less homogenize the skin tones of the Dead Horses and the Sorrows to a uniform brown. Ok.

But we still have the problem where they’re poorly researched caricatures of indigenous cultures for set piece flavor. That was a decision that Obsidian made that stayed through the entire writing process and was in fact a core component the entire DLC hinged on.

I pointed out already that it feels like Raul was made the “eh Legion Ain’t So Bad” companion to fill the void Companion Ulysses left when he had to be cut. But if Obsidian had had more time to make a more polished game and to work out the narrative troubles they had with Companion Ulysses so he could stay in that capacity, we would still have a problem: the only black companion in the game is the mouthpiece for pro-slaver opinions that ring lots and lots of white supremacy bells up to and including the Legion’s leader denigrating Backwards Savages in contrast to himself, an educated white man. As it stands, in his DLC, Ulysses remains the only major plot-important black character, and he’s still the Why The Legion Has Good Qualities mouthpiece.

The only people I don’t blame are Raul Tejada, Fictional Character, because he did not make the decision to put pro-racist-slaver words in his mouth that fly directly in the face of his entire backstory and characterization, and Ulysses, Fictional Character who also got no say in this.