The Ideology of Mr. House | Fallout: New Vegas

“WHY DID YOU KILL PRESIDENT KIMBALL????” “uhh he tried to make me pay taxes” “understandable”

"The house always wins" is great f-ing name for a quest

So you're telling me the game that allows me to get dominated by a robot named 'Fisto' has better political writing than most media today?

"Is it really so hard not to engage in cannibalism?" Sometimes a feller's gotta eat a feller

When you erect a space faring empire intent on colonizing the universe just to escape taxes.

"You're laughing. You didn't pay taxes and you're laughing." Basically all anti-NCR playthroughs.

Fallout is essentially is “these are not your good or bad options. Theses are your only options”

My biggest issue with Caesar is how he is utterly anachronistic in how he sees Rome, whose autocracy was under the guise of a meritocratic republic. Romans had representatives, freedoms if they were Citizens, and sold their conquests as "Civilizing" barbarians and Romanizing them. Caesars legion is a model of Imperial Era Roman dictatorship, but those dictators were still backed by a civic membership while the Legion is a slave-state.

Ulysess: They cling to the old world Me: Bro, you wear the old US flag on your back Ulysess: Listen here you little shit...

Honestly I always liked the independent endings because I like to roleplay as mad mailman going into a power trip.

3:04 Can I just mark the Humor in this situation? Like imagine you’re Caesar, sitting on your throne guarded and the dude who you sent to destroy a shed in your backyard comes in with power armour and shoots a missile at you.

Always hated how Soup says House had the chance to save the world or Vegas and chose Vegas. How? He clearly lays out how he was barely able to defend Vegas by itself, to the point that he had to take the 38’s reactor offline to stop a meltdown, and he states if asked that he spent the next 60-80 years (can’t remember which) in a “veritable coma”

Hearing mr house say "if you want to see the fate of democracy's look out the windows" fucking blows me away every time how is this game so good at dialogue

The worst effect of New Vegas's rushed development was the removal of the Followers as a major faction in the main quest.

One note about Westside: it’s not self sufficient. The water used to grow crops is secretly being diverted from the NCR Sharecropper Farms, causing a shortage. I don’t think this undercuts your argument, just adds complexity. One cannot go off and build a better world in isolation; limited resources will always force conflicts between new and extant systems that must be resolved. (For the record I didn’t turn Anderson in, though the ideal solutions seems a bit simpler if politically challenged - reduce sharecrop production by whatever amount Westside produces. The farms fueling and maintained by a local community are going to be more beneficial to the people of New Vegas than a hyper controlled NCR system run by western transplants with few connections to the community)

I just looked something up. The Independant ending only says the things about anarchy if you don't upgrade the sequritrons. If you upgrade them it clearly says that any Chaos was ended quickly and with minimal loss of life. There are two Independant endings.

19:03 House sells purified water at 5 caps per gallon when the standard is 10 caps per bottle (of aprox. 500ml). There's 3785ml in a US gallon, divided by 500ml in a Fallout water bottle is 7.56, meaning that House is selling 7 1/2 times more water at half the price of the wasteland standard. With that price, he easily underbids ever water caravan in the NCR.

Caesar: the wastleland needs something new Also Caesar: creates an ideology based on an idea from 2000+ years ago

Speaking of Singapore, did you know Singaporean casinos don't let their own citizens in (without a fee)? The casinos are there to make profit from foreigners not themselves. If a citizen really wants to gamble they have to pay a fee carefuly calculated to be slightly cheaper than going to malaysia to gamble.