Fallout does not deserve to be the work of fiction that has the best depiction of a US/Canadian conflict, like there’s shitty comedy movies, and maybe a Turtledove book that even deals with it. But all of them treat it as a joke, like the second closet thing I can think of treating it somewhat seriously is maybe infinite jest but it’s like Quebec and French people aren’t real and their struggle was like a a school production with cardboard to like the IRA.

Idk, I’m done ranting.

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[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Also, despite his army's sus imagery, the reason he 'turns evil' is because his wife and daughter were killed in a terror bombing that the Regular Army were "too incompetent" to stop

Which is like if Colin Powell's family was killed in 9/11, and in response he started a second US Civil War (i.e. extremely based)