bethesda: isn’t the fifties americana aesthetic so cute and fun? greasers! cola! jetsons! pin-ups!

avellone: we shot hippies in the street

Avellone:

Bethesda:

pretty wild how bethesda made the protags of fallout 4 a lawyer and a soldier working for a fascist racist police state… and then proceeded to just not mention that it was a fascist racist police state, and framed their pre-war life as a perfect utopian existence that was unfairly taken from them…

looks bad todd 👀

first of all they have already established and touched on institutional racism and cultural violence in the setting, directly and unmistakably, in fallout 3 and nv, so now walking it back and framing the american government as benign and picturesque is really ugly

secondly i dont have time to explain to you why the themes and messages of media consumed en masse have an impact on culture, or why there exist people who discuss popular things on the internet

why the fuck do i have to justify criticizing a household name scifi franchise that’s been twisted from a critique of modern western culture into a fascist-friendly shooter series where slavery is used as comic relief

fuck you