@@kafkaesque6459 It's impressive how many games have both liam o'brien and yuri lowenthal in them, they're almost like the package deal of voice acting
The guy with the laser is by the caravans, the trapped house is empty besides legion corpses, implying that either he was taken or he IS the man with the laser@@purpleblah2
The trapped house guy wasn't necessarily fighting the Legion, he was just a paranoid schizo, but the Legion wandered into his house, I assume the laser guy died fighting by the trailer park.
@@zerrodefex Yeah, Benny was frustrating. I wanted to ally with him, but he just wasn't willing to cooperate. He has the same flaw as Mr House, he's just not willing to share power. He'd rather die than negotiate.
@@darkfool2000my fav cut line. Your godamn mailman! You deliver mail, not be in power."Which is far enought or entire plan lie on stealing his plan and blackmailed to make us partners. Not exactly a good place to start relationship specially when you first meet when he attemted to murder you. That's a lot to buy that your sincerely walk all the way here to work with him. He been very lucky. There is luck than there is this nonsense. So goes to show even with all the luck you cannot posible be that lucky and get yourself killed. Because you are that absurdly lucky and should have taken your luck at face value.
13:51 If I recall correctly, Obsidian hired the guy who made the "Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul" mod, which accomplished the impossible feat of balancing that game's level scaling so it wouldn't break the immersion (vanilla Oblivion's level scaling essentially caused every lowly bandit to be decked out in ebony / daedric gear, making you wonder why they even bothered to accost travelers for a few septims).
@@pendantblade6361 Jorge Salgado. Turns out there's a page about him on the Fallout Wiki, which also has quotes from Josh Sawyer, confirming that Salgado was indeed hired for his work on the OOO mod. He joined Obsidian around halfway into development and did a lot of scripting, as well as some area designs.
the 4 different outcomes for the cass questline are really cool 1. cass and the courier goes on a whisky river fueled killing spree wiping out both the crimson caravan Vegas branch and the van graffs. this screws over the trade and supply routes into vegas as the crimson caravan refuse to operate there again until the "massacre in the East" is resolved. 2. cass and the courier take evidence of the massacres done by both groups to NCR authorities. after several years the NCR use the scandal as justification to enact stricter trade laws to benefit their supply lines. 3.cass and the courier take evidence of the massacres done by both groups to NCR authorities and also stole gun schematics from the gun runners for McLafferty. when recalled to stand trial their caravan comes under attack and wiped out by well armed and trained raiders using military tactics with no goods being stolen, the gun runners denied any involvement when questioned. 4.the courier takes cass to the van graffs to finish what they started, then they organize a weapons deal with the legion which actually ends up being a NCR trap that the van graffs had organized and the successful springing of it as a basis for a weapons supply contract with the NCR military (i wish this meant you'd see NCR troops with energy weapons but it doesn't).
I had already completed the BOS quest line by the time I got Cass to give me her quest, so I was infuriated when my only option was wiping out Lafferty.
Hanlon's speech always gets me, he's one of my favorite characters in the game and he's also voiced by Kris Kristofferson who was also in a losing war so it really fits that he voiced the character
8:00 I think the guns vs. melee issue with legionaries tends to be misunderstood or at least exaggerated in discussions about the game. The Legion has no qualms with using mines, bombs, or artillery either. It's more that their doctrine teaches them to be proficient with whatever they have available and to not always *expect* firearms for carrying out an operation the way an NCR soldier would. Presumably because the Legion has a disparity between quality equipment and its high numbers of low-value recruits who aren't worth dedicating their limited resources to. If guns can be spared for them or if they can loot them off the enemy, sure, they'll use them because it's practical to, but I think Caesar also wants them to be prepared to throw themselves at the enemy even if they only have a machete in their hands, if it comes to that. Caesar's collectivist doctrine and the material realities of the Legion require him to marginalize the basic needs of his soldiers and mitigate their expectations as much as possible, lest it affect morale and undermine his authority. Those pampered NCR boys will complain when they're not supplied with enough ammo to get them through the month, but a legionary is taught that, if you have no other options, it's badass to be instantly shot to death while charging an NCR squadron with a kitchen knife. It reinforces the Legion's reputation as fanatical devotees and finds a psychological use for the most poorly-equipped slaves who were probably going to die of an infection at camp or something a week later anyway. Instead of this being something that would raise doubts among the men about the conditions of the Legion, Caesar's propaganda intends to inspire pride and loyalty by painting this as virtuous compared to the NCR, where standard-issue ranged weaponry is a given thing that they can't do without (because they have more critical thinking skills and value for their own lives than the average legionary.)
Splendid analysis! I back the existence of equipment disparity in the Legion, as we know it to be a collection of tribes conformed under a unifying (and as pointed out, indeed collectivist) identity. Being a collective of tribes is not condusive to possessing a equipment standard matching the NCR!:) And on morale topic - the Legion is an adherent to the Cult of Mars. Now, since we know Caesar to be a Follower, we can assume the tenets of Mars from our Rome to be carried over. Speculative, but perhaps bladed weaponry is seen as more honourable, a challenge of skill and swiftness. This would most definitely not be the first time such dichotomy arose between blade and bullet:) Sacrifice of war might also be a guideline - that would go far to motivate Legion commanders to be ruthless and aggressive in their planning. Good analysis👍
This mentality is one of the things that ruined the Japanese infantry during WW2. At a certain point one has to realize that rushing a line with melee weapons is foolish
@@LucasDimoveo There are different descriptive systems in philosophies of any sphere, my friend. And the alignment of these systems with each is far from guaranteed:) what is foolish to me or you is perfectly acceptable to another. Whether we critique a system different from our own or laude it, the first necessity is to acknowledge that this isn't Kulturkampf, but a philosophical matter - which sets up the frame as a discussion of two internally consistent, coherent systems with differing definitions and objectives. Also, philosophical debate aside, the OC has pointed out why the Legion does what it does in a way that it does - and, personally, I see no reason to have an eschatological argument over which ordinance of structure of a military force is better - how about observing the two, letting them use their strengths and see which one comes out on top!
get in line. i never realized that level scaling actually WORKS that way in New Vegas! A really cool way too. I always wondered when those rangers stuck in Baja actually get to New Vegas... apparently it's at level 16+
I knew that Primm had more content after finishing up the sheriff plotline... just never knew i only had to wait 3 days for the deserters to appear and 3 more for the casino to work. I always thought it happened later after doing some main plot quests. Now it was often said that the Legion didn't have many sidequests as a result of the short development process, but i always thought that since the Legion seemed more organized than the NCR, they don't exactly need the Courier, except for things that are out of their league, like robots. It seems to be true now that it's known that there wasn't a lot of Legion stuff to do to begin with. Nice to see you noticed House's picture a reference to Howard Hughes, who besides being a billionare, was also a eccentric weirdo. He always ate the same thing for dinner, only ate eggs in the way his family would cook them, and once spent an entire year watching movies naked. Hughes spent most of his later life in Vegas, so that might be the inspiration for the reference.
Howard Hughes had a severe form of OCD in a time when such mental illnesses were not yet known and got much worse as he got older. Despite that he was an innovator of his time.
@@Jay_Bigfoot that plane crash that he suffered a head injury from might have had something to do with it. Reportedly it was after that incident that the symptoms started to appear and get progressively worse.
Dagoth Ur, a Hikikomori with a head made of Finnish music preferences, didn't need to name drop Hegel to justify his decisions when he rose up to drive the new season of Piccard away. Edward nationalised mansplaining and weaponised the pride parade but couldn't tell the difference between an underground explosion and a properly functioning on switch when it counted. I've fought mudcrabs more competent than you, Edward.
@@Aaron067 Hikikomori, in this context, refers to a person who has socially withdrawn themselves from society. This is not to be confused with the "NEET" -- Not in Education, Employment, or Training. When referring to how Edward (Caesar) "nationalized mansplainging" this refers to the legion's male-centric dogma and sophistry -- literally, Caesar "mansplains" to you about theology and politics as if he knows these things better than you do, and this "tone" is shared amongst his subbordinates. When you speak to Vulpes, he talks down to you in his explanations, and gives explanations where you didn't ask for any (IE: When you tell Vulpes his crimes are unforgivable, he spouts some crap about all crime is unforgivable, as if J-Walking is comparable to terrorism). While I don't know much about Star Trek, or Piccard in particular, I can make an uneducated but passingly informed guess. So, to put the whole thing together for a layman; "Dagoth Ur, a shut-in with a head made of foul garbage, didn't need to name drop a philosopher to oust what he saw as a sinister, subversive force. Caesar manages to instill his demeaning mindset into an entire nation, and turned homoromanticism into a weapon, but couldn't even manage to tell the difference between a bunker-shattering explosion, and me turning on the lights down stairs. I've fought mudcrabs more competent than him." My translation may be off. With any luck, it won't inspire a tribal leader to try and turn us into commanders for his faction, like it did for our main man, Joshua Graham.
I couldn't decide if I wanted to watch this or the new RLM video first, so I'm watching both at the same time with the volume at full blast. My landlord wants me out by the end of the month.
Holy shyte... i didn't know that New Vegas HAD that level scaling system when the promised rangers in Baja actually *arrive* if you reach a certain level!
I suppose it's easy to miss if one rushes the story and finishes the game at a low level. I went around collecting side quests as it's a Fallout game and saw those rangers arrive well before I started the final battle.
@@zerrodefex I did a few sidequests too, not too much, since i was roleplaying, but i DID finish New Vegas back when it was released, back in 2011, so no DLC or stuff like that I remember the first experience was a crash of some sort before i fixed it. Never crashed again as far as i remember. Still miss the trenches and various bodies laying around what became the entrance to dead money. Soldiers just sitting in the trenches, fighting...
@@zerrodefex It can also happen if you reach a high level very quickly, for instance, if you do level-up exploits before hitting major settlements, or do one of the DLCs, or anything like that. I know during most of my playthroughs, I'm usually like, at least level 15-17 at minimum before I set foot within a town that would actually have people talking about the high level reinforcements.
there was this youtuber called missie mae who decided too collect every piece of evidence she could against benny before facing him, aswell as sabotaging his guards and such. she probebly got the worst, shortest and most anti climactic conversation you can possibly have with benny.
FNV is a series of self-contained, moving images, each with a unique flaw for us to discover and think "ooh, we're so smart!" and set up as we wish, when in reality we're just being entertained. That's how you design games.
One specific part of mr. House personality I see rarely discussed is that he is an avid gambler. Which explains a lot of his actions in the game. The man is all about calculating probabilities and elaborate strategies, and he is willing to go all in, even if the chances are low. At first I thought House employing courier as stupid, because it makes his assasination so easy. But really, making courier his servant is the only way to win the battle for Hoover dam, and House doesnt care it results in him biting the dust of lucky 38 basement 3 out of 4 times. Just makes you wonder how many similar gambles he has planned for his "space in 50 years" program
House doesn't gamble at all though. There are things he couldn't foresee, like his pact with the tribals biting him in the ass at the last second, because Benny somehow has 50 more IQ points than all the other casino leaders. The courier was only a bandaid fix to this error, and that 1/4 chance you argue with is a 4/4 chance when you're not omnisciently aware of the other endings. His perspective is "This is a transaction, you do the job you have accepted". He says that out loud. And even then the "gamble" wouldn't involve the courier successfully killing him. You're blinded by the plot armour, the canonical courier goes down in .5s of minigun fire like every other human. I'm not sure how you can argue that he's gambling when the absence of the first-act plot would mean that House has a guaranteed win at hoover dam. When you confront him at the end, Oliver is scared of the robot army, not you.
@@slyseal2091it is exactly my point, but I do think that it all does hang on a single decision outside of House control: the courier has to agree to work for him. And he does the best he can for it: welcoming courier as equal, even though he clearly is not, laying out grand vision of the future, showing full trust and so on, but he has to realise literally every power in the area would try to use courier instead, he has to know literally everyone else wants him dead, and he has to realize his whole plan could be compromized easily. House is shown to be obsessed with calculations, probabilities and plans. This is why I call him a gambler: he approaches this whole thing as a player - all or nothing. And whatever he had calculated for himself, it is clearly far from 100% success rate, but he plays it anyway
@@user-jz8pj4su5f No, that's exactly the thing, as far as the characters of the world are concerned the courier is worth about 5 people in power armour. That's extremely good at the scale of wiping out the Khans or hunting down Benny, but if you don't know he has plot armor it is logically unsound to think he could punch through Houses security detail, or wipe out Caesars HQ. If he didn't hire the courier, he would have just hired 5 people in power armour. Neither the NCR nor House nor Caesar think of him as anything other than the most immediate way of getting to their goals. "Immediate" standing in oppositon to "only".
@@slyseal2091sure, but House could have met courier somewhere other than his HQ, where no other man has entered in 200 years, exactly how he managed the families, I assume. House could have increased his security, because he would know for sure if courier visits NCR embassy, or could easily tell is Cesar met him in person. And the thing those people WOULD ask courier to do is to get rid of House. But alas - he acts as if he is oblivious to all this
Why ghouls dont wear masks? I know i would want to wear one to hide my hideous face if i were one. Would go extra mile to personalise the mask to reflect my interests and make it look as fancy as possible. Like them carnival masks. I tried googling the topic - and nobody in the entire internet asked the same question as me. Why? It will make living near humans much more easier.
The smell most likely. Body odor isn't the most pleasant of things in the first place; then consider how malodorous what is essentially a *rotting corpse* must be. The smell is going to slowly permeate the mask and make their body odor very noticeable to them. Then you have the heat. Outside of the colder months the heat would eventually become unbearable. Lastly if the mask covers the nose and the mouth (which it would if you're trying to cover up your own ugliness) it's going to be hard to breathe in unless you use highly breathable material. Or you could just go the Humungus/Hockey Mask route I suppose.
@@walternelson2687 I’m sure with all of the futuristic technology that fallout has, there’s some in universe way to mostly get rid of the corpse smell. And people in real life wear these masks while breathing just fine, and even if they couldn’t breathe, it’s somewhat dubious whether or not ghouls even need to breathe (see: fallout 4, Billy, the kid in a fridge)
@@walternelson2687 admittedly, east coast fallout canon is an affront to god. But my point about normal people wearing carnival masks and being able to breathe still stands. I hope if we ever get a continuation to the west coast fallout story the devs use this mask idea in some way.
@@SadnessCentral Those masks aren't worn all day every day plus all the mainline series old titles were in Southern California and it already gets pretty hot during the Dry Season here in Northern California. We don't get the proper 4 seasons imo. It is an interesting idea however. I could see at least a Tribe of Ghouls who do this for religious or other reasons despite the heat and smell.
The video started with discussing the Desert Rangers in Arizona calling back to your Fallout Sonora video indirectly (ik FNV is official, canon and was made BEFORE Sonora) , Cass being directly referenced to be Cassidy from Fallout 2's daughter - really adds to this video being a culmination of your classic fallout videos. Another thing I'll point out - Caesar is basically a warlord, he's a military leader that has a lot of economic and administrative power - squanders it, using the Legion as just a roaming slave army; all his diatribe about Pax Romana and other crap feels hollow since he doesn't even bother using the actual important Roman knowledge that actually kept their civilization going for so long (integration of tribes and nations, citizenship, aquaducts, architecture, law, education, etc) Not forgetting too that Caesar hasn't even bothered to sire an heir (whether Adoptive - i.e an Augustus-esque character or a biological one) - these factors combined as Joshua Graham states: The Legion will die with Caesar. Yet Hilariously - Caesar's main interest in Hoover Dam and New Vegas is to finally establish a "Legion Civilian State" when he literally could've just set up one in Phoenix or Flagstaff; and even then in Caesar's Legion endings where he lives? The Legion still does the same shit as it did before; killing and enslaving. So much for a civilian state then? But this serves the plot well since FNV is very much about "Old World Blues" and Nostalgia - Caesar is just a Roman Empire fan and like most Roman empire fans; they only care about the EPIC ROMAN ARMY (when in reality the Army after it's peak actually became a detriment and caused the collapse of the Empire due to corruption, barbarian mercenaries that weren't even romanized and being used to replace the Auxiliaries, and commanders becoming warlords and declaring themselves to be Emperor which is what will happen to CL after Caesar dies)
You know Caesar is a dumbass who doesn't know shit when he starts talking about the "bloated bureaucracy" of the Roman Republic. The republic barely any official bureaucrats whatsoever, just a few dozen elected officials and some state-owned slaves.
Our grandfathers were soldiers, so our fathers could be farmers Our fathers were farmers so we could be artists. We were artists, so our children had to be soliders
@@PobortzaPl they also had gigantic slave economy. That helped to do the farming, when all those soldier-farmer were busy at military campaigns abroad. In reality the Farmer-Soldier died after Marius, when professional year-round army was instituted, with wages, standard issue equipment and widened conscription. The closest Roman soldier got to farmer-soldiering was getting a plot of land after retirement from service, that were granted in such a way, as to prevent too high concentration of ex-soldiers in one area, to prevent uprisings, and other funny ideas.
Also there is one video that feel that New Vegas’s “liberalism vs authoritarianism” is done better on Mr. House instead of Caesar. Like he does rule a functioning city state and does not tolerate dissent (his main objective being getting a better robot army to maintain his rule and NCR is just proxy).
I like House. I feel like he fell victim to the writing idea of "everyone has to be shades of gray. No black and white allowed". The guy is the only faction in F:NV who could actually bring back pre-war technology and standards of living. So what you can't challenge him in an election? Move to Nipton, housing market there took a dive 😁
@@HypeRapEnjoyer The issue with House is that we've seen what happens to undesirables in his system. Freeside is a pretty gnarly indictment of poverty. He's not an evil warlord like Caesar, but he's certainly not unambiguously good.
@@batrachian149 He is self interested, like any living being. The squatters setting up shop on his doorstep are hardly his responsibility. Considering that he runs a business that relies on tourism, if anything, he showed restraint in not just clearing out that giant slum for discouraging incoming visitors. As he himself states in his dialogue, he is not interested in telling people how to live their lives. From what we see in game, he cares to enforce rules only so far as its necessary for the security and stability of the region under his control. There is no indication that he even collects any kind of tax from the population, since what is directly under him relies on automation, and the families make their money with their casinos. The only really questionable and dictatorial thing he does that he was not pushed to by external circumstances, is forcing the local vaults population out to get rid of a potential source of trouble, and the lack of lingering resentment shown besides a single person being sad about it does not imply that much force had to be used. Living under the "rule" of House, or what rather seems to be the lack of it, sounds less like authoritarianism, and more like a libertarians wet dream.
A criticism I have of this game in regards to how the Legion is portrayed in comparison to the NCR is that they're depicted as too competent, as opposed to the NCR drowning in bureaucracy and poor decisions. The Legion is comically efficient, when in real life fascism lends itself to yes-men (not to be confused with Yes Man) who are too scared to report bad news to their superiors so they end up falsifying information and inflating numbers. There's not enough backstabbing between Legion higher-ups in a cutthroat, "might makes right" system to get better benefits from their superiors. There's not enough irrational decision making from the tyrant head of state who is surrounded by timid enablers who are too afraid to call out bad ideas. Aside from "the ends justify the means" being an immoral position to take, a lot of media illiterate players will see the Legion as a necessity because they aren't shown with enough realistic flaws.
That’s an essential factor of a functional autocracy. The Courier shouldn’t be able to see the flaws, much less anyone else within NCR-occupied territory and even within the lower levels of the Legion itself. That’s an important part of what makes them appear so efficient and makes them so threatening; their ability to control information. Any mistakes you do hear about within the Legion are deliberately followed by stories of the immolated culprits being tossed into a canyon and their name’s stricken from the history books. I wouldn’t blame the writers for not filling in all the blanks for you, it’s what makes the conflict in the game so compelling for many others.
@@KmC0104 It's too convenient to handwave the lack of necessary flaws with "well, the Legion is just that good at controlling info" because that is essentially circling back to the original criticism. The Legion should *appear* to be highly efficient to outsiders to maintain their perceived threat level to serve as compelling antagonists, but if the Courier does quests for them, then the cracks should start to show, characters should start to complain and conspire in private. Not only the examples I gave previously, but even something like helping the put down a slave revolt. The blame of having the Legion come across as too unrealistic and one-note is on the writers, there needed to be more examples than just the Burned Man.
There's that centurion that got captured who explains that there is all of those things if you pretend to be a legion sleeper agent sent to kill him. Not much but it is certainly in the game.
@@blakebailey22 I agree with you on that point. You should see some cracks eventually if you are working within the inner circle of Caesar (I.e. doing quests for the faction). And you do. You learn of a critical flaw in Caesar’s plan and the bane of every depot’s empire: their own death. His brain tumor basically condemns him to death if he doesn’t get surgery, or you tamper with it to kill him yourself. And what happens after the death of Caesar? The inevitable collapse of the Legion via a power vacuum. As you prove yourself to him by doing the quest line he touches on the lack of confidence in any direct successor to the Legion, and the vital nature of him staying alive, at least until someone capable is chosen. It highlights Caesar’s over-ambition and fixation on his legacy over the long term success of his nation, until the possibility of his death is realized first hand. You only learn of this oversight from Caesar directly (or other members of his inner circle, I think), while he and his advisors are in an obvious state of desperation and you build enough trust with them. Again, the situation in the Mojave only seems one-sided when you have a perspective from the outside, and the limited interaction you have with the Legion if you don’t help them doesn’t paint the entire picture of the faction for obvious reasons. Their control of information isn’t just a convenient excuse for the writers to make the Legion seem OP or anything like that, it’s essential to the Legion’s survival. Otherwise they’d be tearing each other apart from the inside.
@@KmC0104 I don't know why you're coping so hard, it's actually annoying. A lot of pompous writing for not saying much at all. @blakebailey22 made a great point and it is something the game writers failed at, accept it. The legion simply isn't shown to be as rotten on the inside as it should, even when you do quests for them. It's too perfect of an autocrat state, with its only real flaw being slavery. Remove that and you'd have (even) more players worshiping them as the saviors of the Mojave. More than any of your bullshit excuses (like Caesar's tumor being a shown crack - what?!), the most likely real reason for this failure in the writing is that, as for everything else Legion, they're underdeveloped. It's a part of the game that simply didn't get as much attention and nurture as the rest of the game, due to time and budget constraints. So inevitably every part of this content suffered, writing likely included. It would have been great if they took some pages from classic cases of the Third Reich, for example. There would be so, so many. Like falsifying reports on defeats out fear of punishment, heavy interference from the autocrat on minute military decisions, endless plans for usurping power from the leader, heavy competition between the seconds-in-command to gain favor of the leader, a propaganda machine so effective that deludes even the decision makers resulting in catastrophic military failures, etc. I don't know why you're trying to die on this hill, but you're wrong.
Post apocalyptic fiction seems to often have the "liberalism vs authoritarianism" conversation. Even Fist of the North Star did this, with Kenshiro and Ra-oh being presented as potential "uniters" of the anarchic society, but with different approaches to government.
Because "liberalism vs authoritarianism" is a very easy scenario to conjure in a post-collapse situation and two easy to understand political stance in direct opposition to each other.
Hanlon can live after telling him to stop fabricating reports if you kill Caesar and tell him about it; that without Caesar the Legion won't even last five years, let alone ten He has his doubts on whether that'll be the truth, but it gives him enough hope that he accepts it as a risk he's willing to take, and he thanks you for helping him come to his senses This game has an incredible amount of contingencies and optional endings for certain quests dependent on what you do in the world, and I often lament on how much more of these "meaningful choices and consequences" the rest of the game could've had, had Bethesda given Obsidian _actual_ development time
On the other hand, there's something to be said about just shipping a thing. It took Obsidian a couple more major releases after New Vegas before it could be said that they had a release that wasn't a bug ridden/janky mess and was feature complete to their vision at launch (because Alpha Protocol was a HUGE mess and Pillars of Eternity 1 is super debatable I'd say Tyranny was really the start of their quality turnaround) it's rather arguable that at that time, no Obsidian developed game could be said to be truly well-made. And since they really were the masters of "Good Writing, but lots of Jank everywhere else," how much more could have really been accomplished with another six months or a year? Because they ended up with another year on the project just due to the DLCs. In that time they patched and rebalanced and re-did a lot of stuff to the main game too. Yeah, their buggy launch screwed them out of some well deserved royalty payments due to that bad contract they signed with Bethsoft tying their bonus to metacritic ratings, but that also comes down to them not being forward thinking when it comes to contract negotiations as much as anything. In the end, the shortened development time didn't really affect the game's quality all that much when you consider how limited the engine was and how much extra time they actually had on the title to fix things up with the DLC cycle. Considering we've seen several examples in recent years of how long development cycles really don't matter when it comes to the eventual output of a game if the core premise isn't really that good to begin with (FF15 and 16, Starfield, The Suicide Squad), I think Obsidian just getting a game finished is really the best outcome you can get out of them.
I'm going to nerd for a moment. Hegel's philosophy of history was trying to show how the birth of Jesus was basically baked into human history by God to respond, in part, to a view at the time that the birth of Jesus was a reactionary step taken by God in response to human wickedness. For God to be reactionary was to imply that God was neither omnipotent or omniscient, which Hegel couldn't accept. That's part of why Hegel is attractive to high brow con men, because at its base its just theology. One of the practical things Hegel noted was that cultures which are in close contact with each other tend to go through this process of conflict and exchange, which Hegel called Aufhebung. This is what is commonly referred to as Hegelian synthesis. What people (and the character Caesar) get wrong is this idea that somehow one of the cultures endures. It doesn't, that's the whole point. In the end neither culture is left, because they've both merged and changed to the point where neither is at all what they originally were. This is why using Hegel as an argument for cultural superiority is stupid. Now, with that and $5 you can buy a coffee.
Hanlon do have an arc : if you let him continue his scheme and make a free Vegas he become a politician with a politic of "Kimball more like Kick Him In The Balls" and then become Senator of Redding. If you tell him to stop tho he get all sad and die in his ranch...
I was just thinking I really hope warlockracy video comes out today as I am going through a bit of a difficult time in my life right now. These videos are like a warm blanket to me, thanks man.
You know it's going to be an incredible start of the weekend when Warlockracy puts out a new video. Looking forward to watching many times! Love your storytelling dude
I love your writing, insight, joke delivery, editing - it's all so well done and makes each of your videos utterly captivating. Thanks for the content!
I'm so excited to see how the playing card motif in these videos will end up. It's oddly exciting to see all of them laid out on the table as each piece of the game and all the new players are introduced. Great video!
Caesar's use of dialectics, specifically Hegelian dialectics, is very interesting. Broadly, Caesar's *use* of Hegel is somewhat correct; he positions the NCR's *ideology* of liberal capitalist imperialism against his Legion's totalitarian, similarly imperialist ideology. Two "ideas" that contain contradictions in their existence aside each other (at least in Caesar's mind) and their justifications. Caesar's failure is thinking that this *synthesis* he is working toward entails destroying the NCR without absorbing any of its ideological foundations into his nation's own ideology. He is looking for subjugation and destruction, not a genuine synthesis - he wants the Legion's ideology to supersede and eliminate the NCR's. Thus, I believe Cesar's tumor might have had an outburst and had him confuse dialectical materialism/Marxism with Hegelian dialectics; both have similarities, however Hegel was more interested in finding ontological answers - a fundamentally liberal, reactionary philosophy. Cesar's failure is that he thinks the mere, post hoc idea that justifies the violent imperialism of his Legion justifies its own expansion. The NCR falls into the same trap - this isn't a war of ideas, those are simply justifications for an overarching, overriding material justification: the Hoover Dam. Both nations will change in a historical dialectical/dialectical materialist process, not in a Hegelian way.
Doesn't Caesar acknowledge in dialogue that the conquest of the NCR will force the Legion to be greatly altered? Something like "right now the Legion is basically a state-sized war camp populated by tribal illiterates, but when we assimilate the cities of the NCR it will become a true civilian entity like the NCR, without republicanism and corruption". Although I suppose this suggests more of a "material" synthesis than an "ideological" one.
@@lukedufaur5368 Hahaha you're right. It's been a while since I've played. His conquest of the NCR is certainly dialectic in nature as it is an ongoing process. I suppose I was mainly speaking of how Caesar envisions his ultimate goal - I don't think his state would become significantly in regards to stability if he were to conquer the NCR. The Legion will certainly shatter after Caesar's death.
Thesis - Antithesis - Synthesis is Fichte, not Hegel. Cue the meme. As far as I understand it, Hegelian dialectics is very specific that contradiction (or Negation) is not from OUTISIDE the object, it is from within. Hegel's dialectics specifically has the Abstract (or Material Conditions in case of Marxist dialectics I guess?) having contradictions that create within itself its own negation (moving from Quantity to Quality until a new Concrete is achieved). The contradictions of the NCR do that, by their corroding of their own democracy, their consolidation of oligarchy, their imperial-like expansionism, the militarization of their economy and society, all sabotaging their own concept and shaping into something qualitatively new. Same for the contradictions of the Legion, in special about Caesar. Some of those are caused BY the conflict, for sure, but... But it just doesn't work that way Caesar says it. There is NO contradiction between the NCR and the Legion, there is just conflict - which I guess by his intentions Caesar kinda gets. Synthesis of some kind may or may not happen, but has nothing to do with Hegelian dialectics. Was the NCR created by the contradictions of the legion? Well, nope. Was the Legion created by contradictions of the NCR? Also nope. Hegelian dialectics have literally nothing to do with it, that is literally not how it works and supports (maybe unintentionally in this case because everyone gets Hegelian dialectics wrong, me included in the past) Caesar being a self-aggrandizing pseudo-intellectual pompous fool, as is kinda frequently implied.
@@Quarter324 yeah, I don’t buy that it will shatter after death. It could’ve, when he defeated those original 7 tribes or whatever, but after he conquered dozens through the decades? No, not gonna happen. Not to mention that some citizens will actually prefer legion rule to whatever was before it-Raul says as much. And it’s not like Legion has an absence of powerful figures: Lanius, Vulpes, Lucious: all them have an experience of leading men, and that’s all that matters. It’s weird that people will say stuff like: “legion is not a state, it’s just an oversized tribal warcamp” and “the legion will shatter after the death of Cesar” in the same sentence. An NCR might shatter if a warlord rose to power, but why would tribal warcamp collapse after the death of its chief?
@@max7971 Maybe those people learned what happened to the Mongol Empire after the death of Kublai Khan. Which in itself is interesting, because the death of Genghis Khan ended with some internal turmoil, but the empire was still in one piece after the fact. I am assuming the "Legion without Caesar will collapse" idea is just a different way of saying that his way of doing things are bad and Legion ending is bad without trully challenging the potential post-game period, which might end in some civil war, or just Lanius taking power with Vulpes as his right-hand man and continuing Caesars policies.
I actually love your episodes of rambling about theory and politics. It can sometimes be a tad confusing or I seem to be missing some information but I always come away from it having learned something.
Well hey, I was just watching your video on OAAB, and the "hence the name" meme kept NV on my mind. I was wondering when you'd release another New Vegas video, and here we are!
Dialectics is an interesting and confusing topic. One of my favorite examples of the things it can answer, however, is "How are democracy and dictatorship positively related?" Something not mentioned about Hegel is that he applied dialectics to concepts, but he also applied them to concepts *of history* too, for exmaple analyzing the peculiar ways Greek democracy functioned, why this freedom and individual subjectivity of the Greek freemen gave them the experience of politics and intrigue necessary to make themselves city-state warlords eventually, and the ebb and flow of the concept of "democracy" to our modern day (or in Hegel's tragic abortive case, the French Revolution and counter-revolution) where it's become the discursive field that sovereign mandates revolve around. I think a lot could be said for this concept when you think of Caesar himself, outside of what he likes to *think and say about himself*. His time in the anarchist-coded Followers leads him down a path of cunning whereas most people in New Vegas are basically illiterate or ignorant of the outside world. Ironically, this guy could only have become a leader because of an egalitarian organization.
I legitimately enjoy when you get into breaking down philosophy and logic to critically analyze games' writing and whether or not said writing/dialogue/etc. is absurd and silly or not, or meaningful and profound in general. Love the Fallout videos. I've put hundreds of hours into New Vegas; absolutely love it. About a year ago I was about to start a playthrough, with a ridiculous number of mods and found only a handful of issues with said mods, which were simply the result of me installing them wrong. Unfortunately, I never started the playthrough. Maybe I should start now. Your Morrowind videos had me put something like 130 hours into a modded playthrough under House Telvanni in Tamriel Rebuilt --- good times. Sounds like that New Vegas run has been ordained by fate.
And in the NCR ending Rose will spend a night with a random soldiers, but not with me, who will love and take care of her. Had to join a legion, in this case she could not refuse me. Billions must be enslaved.
Man I love that your reviews are so heavily narrative driven, most game reviews are just classic 20min going over what the game is, who made it some things you can do, but this format you have made is like watching a movie or netflix serie like breaking bad.
I had no idea why Rose, immediately after I spoke to her, said "You're not a cool guy" and walked off when I was exploring Vault 22. Didn't realize that I had come down with a bad case of evil and bad.
14:00 I would argue Gothic 2 was the closest to New Vegas and their version of level scaling. Everytime you move a story to the next chapter the state of the world changes and it also changes how you travel through this world. In chapter 1 it is safer to walk on the roads and avoid local fauna because of our low level. In chapter 2 we are better equiped and while some enemies are in bigger groups it is still beatable challange In chapter 3 new enemies show up and old dangers are easy compared to new opponents which travel in more open civilian friendly places. In chapter 5 war begins and everywhere there you see armies of the enemy forces and whole the world seems like a hopeless place.
I think doing a video on New Vegas and showing me a new I haven´t seen in a video game essay about it is like the most difficult thing on this platform.. so good job
Ahhh the Legion ... if you are male, teen and have a love for big words, without the desire to learn or understand big words, you have found your home^^ It was kinda weird how so many saw them as the "acutal good guys" back in ... 2010? wtf this game is only 14 years old. I thought i was way older oO
thats the thing, you can see them as actual good guys. That's why they let you join them. Doesn't matter whether theyre ackchually actually good, it's a game. Just have fun.
@@monseurwanksalotte3477 isn't that the purpose of an rpg game? to make decisions and see how they turn out in the game? writing a story is surprisingly easy when you stop thinking about being the morals police
Glad that even though I first played the game at the stereotypical "women bad, fascism good" age, I never bought into that or the Legion being the good guys.
Just had an awesome walk in Texas, watched Dune II, and Warlockracy uploaded a video. Can it be a better day? Edit: It got better, I had amazing fajitas
I love how content creators like you make it refreshing to watch a playthrough of the game one played too many times. I wish you could've done a short video about communalistic Followers - they have an interesting conflict of following the NCR around since their beginning, and what made me sad - they don't have a future worthy of their cause in any of endings.
I just realized Chief Hanlon is naive and I had misjudged General Oliver. Hanlon complains that his plan was to station the Rangers on the ridge above the dam so their sharpshooters could take out the Legion as they attack, which was the same place they were stationed in the First Battle of Hoover Dam. He said Oliver overrode his decision and ordered they be placed on the dam itself, which Hanlon claimed was because Oliver was jealous the Rangers got the credit for the victory at the First Battle. BUT, in the Legion ending of the game, if the Legion's artillery is repaired they will lay down constant fire on that ridge, presumably expecting the Rangers to be there again. If Hanlon had had his way, his Rangers would have been slaughtered before they could have fired a single shot. So, it could very well be that Oliver's decision was based on experience, and he knew you should never place your troops in the same spot twice, whereas Hanlon naively thought if it worked once it will work again. Hanlon, being a Ranger, has little experience in full scale warfare and is thinking like someone fighting raider gangs rather than a professional army. It didn't occur to him that his opponent will analyze the First Battle and be ready to counter any tactics the NCR used in it. Like so many inexperienced soldiers, he failed to recognize his commanding officer's decisions weren't about arrogance or pettiness, but about decades of training and experience. Hanlon knows how to win a battle, Oliver knows how to win a war.
8:38 "...Assuming? No, I'm not assuming anything, that's just what you people do, the royal "You", as in... Look, we got off on the wrong foot, together we shall speak for the law, and the land, and drive the mongrel lizards of the Empire..."
Howard Hughes towards the end of his life also became the defacto lord of Las Vegas, he was instrumental in reforming and investing in it, all while secluded in a hotel penthouse while he spiraled further into madness. Kind of odd to miss that comparison
I was able to successfully use dialectical materialism to predict when my grandparent was going to die. Great method of analysis, highly recommend folks read about it. Wish the author had a twitter so I could thank him in the dms. I hated my grandpa.
New Vegas is like taking a bath in a tub full of glittery radioactive goo while wearing a banana suit and reciting Hegel backwards. It's a wild rollercoaster ride through a post-apocalyptic desert filled with zany characters and crazy creatures 👀
Btw, it seems Vulpes lies about the people of Nipton not opposing resistance some people seems to have done it. In one of the houses you find 2 or 3 legionaries dead due to traps and in the trailer park besides the town you find a dead wastelander with a laser rifle and a pile of ass with a legion uniform
I think it make sense he's lying to you at some details, its because he intend to implant a mind propaganda to you and let you act as a 'infection agent'. If he being directly honest, the whole operation would have less impact. Heck, it might turn against them by embolding surrounding settlements. He's a Frumentarii after all, misdirection and propaganda is his expertise. He want to create image.
The thumbnail was made prior to me finishing the script and it's... about something else. The original title was "No Latin."
Also there was recently a certain event in a certain country 😣
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Who made it? 😅
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I feel like Ari Rubin voiced half the men in New Vegas, and Liam O'Brien voiced the other half.
Even with so little voice acting the minor characters still seem to have a somewhat unique charm and they're each presented in their own unique way :)
Yuri Lowenthal's another standout, and does a pretty good job.
Yuri does at least 1/3rd. The instant I hear his voice in anything all I can think of Oliver Swanik
@@kafkaesque6459 It's impressive how many games have both liam o'brien and yuri lowenthal in them, they're almost like the package deal of voice acting
@@immortalresolve4143 He's one of the male voices in Helldivers 2 and its just the Oliver Swanik voice and screams.
One guy in Nipton resisted. You can find several ash piles with legion clothes and a dead guy with a laser rifle.
we finally found him...... the mythical good guy with a gun
And the people in the town hall seemingly
Also, the booby trapped house. Or it's the same house, I don't remember.
The guy with the laser is by the caravans, the trapped house is empty besides legion corpses, implying that either he was taken or he IS the man with the laser@@purpleblah2
The trapped house guy wasn't necessarily fighting the Legion, he was just a paranoid schizo, but the Legion wandered into his house, I assume the laser guy died fighting by the trailer park.
I love your observation how Benny talks like a quest giver, never thought about it, but I remember that he got me with that.
Benny definitely talks like there was meant to be a lot more to him that they lacked the time for.
@@zerrodefex Yeah, Benny was frustrating. I wanted to ally with him, but he just wasn't willing to cooperate. He has the same flaw as Mr House, he's just not willing to share power. He'd rather die than negotiate.
@@darkfool2000my fav cut line. Your godamn mailman! You deliver mail, not be in power."Which is far enought or entire plan lie on stealing his plan and blackmailed to make us partners. Not exactly a good place to start relationship specially when you first meet when he attemted to murder you. That's a lot to buy that your sincerely walk all the way here to work with him. He been very lucky. There is luck than there is this nonsense. So goes to show even with all the luck you cannot posible be that lucky and get yourself killed. Because you are that absurdly lucky and should have taken your luck at face value.
13:51 If I recall correctly, Obsidian hired the guy who made the "Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul" mod, which accomplished the impossible feat of balancing that game's level scaling so it wouldn't break the immersion (vanilla Oblivion's level scaling essentially caused every lowly bandit to be decked out in ebony / daedric gear, making you wonder why they even bothered to accost travelers for a few septims).
It's not about the money, it's about sending a message.
Maybe.
I dunno what it's about, but it sure can't be the money.
Do you happen to recall the name of the modder himself? What's he credited as?
@@pendantblade6361 Jorge Salgado.
Turns out there's a page about him on the Fallout Wiki, which also has quotes from Josh Sawyer, confirming that Salgado was indeed hired for his work on the OOO mod.
He joined Obsidian around halfway into development and did a lot of scripting, as well as some area designs.
@@pendantblade6361 Did YT just make my comment disappear? Anyway, the guy's name is Jorge Salgado.
@@maxjoechl5663 isn't this the guy who reacted a New Vegas speedrun?
the 4 different outcomes for the cass questline are really cool
1. cass and the courier goes on a whisky river fueled killing spree wiping out both the crimson caravan Vegas branch and the van graffs. this screws over the trade and supply routes into vegas as the crimson caravan refuse to operate there again until the "massacre in the East" is resolved.
2. cass and the courier take evidence of the massacres done by both groups to NCR authorities. after several years the NCR use the scandal as justification to enact stricter trade laws to benefit their supply lines.
3.cass and the courier take evidence of the massacres done by both groups to NCR authorities and also stole gun schematics from the gun runners for McLafferty. when recalled to stand trial their caravan comes under attack and wiped out by well armed and trained raiders using military tactics with no goods being stolen, the gun runners denied any involvement when questioned.
4.the courier takes cass to the van graffs to finish what they started, then they organize a weapons deal with the legion which actually ends up being a NCR trap that the van graffs had organized and the successful springing of it as a basis for a weapons supply contract with the NCR military (i wish this meant you'd see NCR troops with energy weapons but it doesn't).
I had already completed the BOS quest line by the time I got Cass to give me her quest, so I was infuriated when my only option was wiping out Lafferty.
Hanlon's speech always gets me, he's one of my favorite characters in the game and he's also voiced by Kris Kristofferson who was also in a losing war so it really fits that he voiced the character
8:00 I think the guns vs. melee issue with legionaries tends to be misunderstood or at least exaggerated in discussions about the game. The Legion has no qualms with using mines, bombs, or artillery either. It's more that their doctrine teaches them to be proficient with whatever they have available and to not always *expect* firearms for carrying out an operation the way an NCR soldier would. Presumably because the Legion has a disparity between quality equipment and its high numbers of low-value recruits who aren't worth dedicating their limited resources to. If guns can be spared for them or if they can loot them off the enemy, sure, they'll use them because it's practical to, but I think Caesar also wants them to be prepared to throw themselves at the enemy even if they only have a machete in their hands, if it comes to that. Caesar's collectivist doctrine and the material realities of the Legion require him to marginalize the basic needs of his soldiers and mitigate their expectations as much as possible, lest it affect morale and undermine his authority. Those pampered NCR boys will complain when they're not supplied with enough ammo to get them through the month, but a legionary is taught that, if you have no other options, it's badass to be instantly shot to death while charging an NCR squadron with a kitchen knife. It reinforces the Legion's reputation as fanatical devotees and finds a psychological use for the most poorly-equipped slaves who were probably going to die of an infection at camp or something a week later anyway.
Instead of this being something that would raise doubts among the men about the conditions of the Legion, Caesar's propaganda intends to inspire pride and loyalty by painting this as virtuous compared to the NCR, where standard-issue ranged weaponry is a given thing that they can't do without (because they have more critical thinking skills and value for their own lives than the average legionary.)
I aint reading all that
Splendid analysis! I back the existence of equipment disparity in the Legion, as we know it to be a collection of tribes conformed under a unifying (and as pointed out, indeed collectivist) identity. Being a collective of tribes is not condusive to possessing a equipment standard matching the NCR!:)
And on morale topic - the Legion is an adherent to the Cult of Mars. Now, since we know Caesar to be a Follower, we can assume the tenets of Mars from our Rome to be carried over. Speculative, but perhaps bladed weaponry is seen as more honourable, a challenge of skill and swiftness. This would most definitely not be the first time such dichotomy arose between blade and bullet:)
Sacrifice of war might also be a guideline - that would go far to motivate Legion commanders to be ruthless and aggressive in their planning.
Good analysis👍
@@logancarlile8895 he says on a 45-minute video on a possibly 8-hour series that talks about dialectic
This mentality is one of the things that ruined the Japanese infantry during WW2. At a certain point one has to realize that rushing a line with melee weapons is foolish
@@LucasDimoveo There are different descriptive systems in philosophies of any sphere, my friend. And the alignment of these systems with each is far from guaranteed:) what is foolish to me or you is perfectly acceptable to another. Whether we critique a system different from our own or laude it, the first necessity is to acknowledge that this isn't Kulturkampf, but a philosophical matter - which sets up the frame as a discussion of two internally consistent, coherent systems with differing definitions and objectives.
Also, philosophical debate aside, the OC has pointed out why the Legion does what it does in a way that it does - and, personally, I see no reason to have an eschatological argument over which ordinance of structure of a military force is better - how about observing the two, letting them use their strengths and see which one comes out on top!
Holy hell, I've played New Vegas a hundred times and never realized there was more Primm content
get in line. i never realized that level scaling actually WORKS that way in New Vegas!
A really cool way too. I always wondered when those rangers stuck in Baja actually get to New Vegas... apparently it's at level 16+
I wouldn't if a bunch of the dlc start points weren't so close to it lol
I did find it when I replayed FNV recently. I was so baffled. I thought I had accidentally installed a mod that did that.
glad I'm not the only one
Actually, Cassidy in Fallout 2 is serious about Spears. If he got a knife Cassidy would swap weapons during combat if enemy is close enough.
So what I'm getting from all this dialectic discussion is that... We seem to be living in a society?..
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It doesn't matter what it really means. The name is cool enough that the internet will twist it around like they did with deus ex.
I always appreciated how they used classical Latin’s hard C in game
And yet these larpers say “ave amicus” rather than the proper vocative “ave amice”
@@MahouShoujoAutumnwouldn't blame the devs on that though, most nouns on latin have the same form for nominative and vocative.
its not always consistent which is very funny because it marks the entire legion's army as a bunch of deluded larpers
@@dirtfriendIS IT KAISER OR SEZAR FUCKING PICK ONE AIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Is that pronounced "ah-way ah-mee-chee" or "ah-mick-ee" or "ah-mee-see"?@@MahouShoujoAutumn
I knew that Primm had more content after finishing up the sheriff plotline... just never knew i only had to wait 3 days for the deserters to appear and 3 more for the casino to work. I always thought it happened later after doing some main plot quests.
Now it was often said that the Legion didn't have many sidequests as a result of the short development process, but i always thought that since the Legion seemed more organized than the NCR, they don't exactly need the Courier, except for things that are out of their league, like robots. It seems to be true now that it's known that there wasn't a lot of Legion stuff to do to begin with.
Nice to see you noticed House's picture a reference to Howard Hughes, who besides being a billionare, was also a eccentric weirdo. He always ate the same thing for dinner, only ate eggs in the way his family would cook them, and once spent an entire year watching movies naked. Hughes spent most of his later life in Vegas, so that might be the inspiration for the reference.
Howard Hughes had a severe form of OCD in a time when such mental illnesses were not yet known and got much worse as he got older. Despite that he was an innovator of his time.
@@Jay_Bigfoot that plane crash that he suffered a head injury from might have had something to do with it. Reportedly it was after that incident that the symptoms started to appear and get progressively worse.
Yakub's prodigal son has returned to enlighten the masses
He arose from the ancient pools, to spread his message
the yakubian trickery is strong with this one
Dagoth Ur, a Hikikomori with a head made of Finnish music preferences, didn't need to name drop Hegel to justify his decisions when he rose up to drive the new season of Piccard away. Edward nationalised mansplaining and weaponised the pride parade but couldn't tell the difference between an underground explosion and a properly functioning on switch when it counted. I've fought mudcrabs more competent than you, Edward.
I despise myself for understanding this comment
@@tstststsplease explain this to a normie like me
Is this ChatGPT dialogue?
Got DAMN!
@@Aaron067
Hikikomori, in this context, refers to a person who has socially withdrawn themselves from society. This is not to be confused with the "NEET" -- Not in Education, Employment, or Training. When referring to how Edward (Caesar) "nationalized mansplainging" this refers to the legion's male-centric dogma and sophistry -- literally, Caesar "mansplains" to you about theology and politics as if he knows these things better than you do, and this "tone" is shared amongst his subbordinates. When you speak to Vulpes, he talks down to you in his explanations, and gives explanations where you didn't ask for any (IE: When you tell Vulpes his crimes are unforgivable, he spouts some crap about all crime is unforgivable, as if J-Walking is comparable to terrorism).
While I don't know much about Star Trek, or Piccard in particular, I can make an uneducated but passingly informed guess.
So, to put the whole thing together for a layman;
"Dagoth Ur, a shut-in with a head made of foul garbage, didn't need to name drop a philosopher to oust what he saw as a sinister, subversive force. Caesar manages to instill his demeaning mindset into an entire nation, and turned homoromanticism into a weapon, but couldn't even manage to tell the difference between a bunker-shattering explosion, and me turning on the lights down stairs. I've fought mudcrabs more competent than him."
My translation may be off. With any luck, it won't inspire a tribal leader to try and turn us into commanders for his faction, like it did for our main man, Joshua Graham.
"this is an neckbeard ethnostate" on point as always
43:30, I got scared that "My next video will be on E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy" dude might've stopped, glad I was wrong
We will succeed eventually
tfw no Warlock video on E.Y.E
why even live
>Still no E.Y.E video
>This is the End of the West
@@DiocletianLarius Billions must repeat the cycles of guilt.
It's true that I made my next video will be on E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy... and yet, I am not uploading it.
I couldn't decide if I wanted to watch this or the new RLM video first, so I'm watching both at the same time with the volume at full blast. My landlord wants me out by the end of the month.
Truly is an amazing day !
was it worth it?
Shieeet RLM, Warlockracy, Wendigoon, few MMA channels like Napoleon Blownapart... perfect playlist to get fooked up alone on the weekend
what's "rlm"?
@@aw2584 wendigoon the far right chump
Holy shyte... i didn't know that New Vegas HAD that level scaling system when the promised rangers in Baja actually *arrive* if you reach a certain level!
I suppose it's easy to miss if one rushes the story and finishes the game at a low level. I went around collecting side quests as it's a Fallout game and saw those rangers arrive well before I started the final battle.
@@zerrodefex I did a few sidequests too, not too much, since i was roleplaying, but i DID finish New Vegas back when it was released, back in 2011, so no DLC or stuff like that
I remember the first experience was a crash of some sort before i fixed it. Never crashed again as far as i remember. Still miss the trenches and various bodies laying around what became the entrance to dead money. Soldiers just sitting in the trenches, fighting...
@@zerrodefex
It can also happen if you reach a high level very quickly, for instance, if you do level-up exploits before hitting major settlements, or do one of the DLCs, or anything like that. I know during most of my playthroughs, I'm usually like, at least level 15-17 at minimum before I set foot within a town that would actually have people talking about the high level reinforcements.
there was this youtuber called missie mae who decided too collect every piece of evidence she could against benny before facing him, aswell as sabotaging his guards and such.
she probebly got the worst, shortest and most anti climactic conversation you can possibly have with benny.
FNV is a series of self-contained, moving images, each with a unique flaw for us to discover and think "ooh, we're so smart!" and set up as we wish, when in reality we're just being entertained.
That's how you design games.
One specific part of mr. House personality I see rarely discussed is that he is an avid gambler. Which explains a lot of his actions in the game. The man is all about calculating probabilities and elaborate strategies, and he is willing to go all in, even if the chances are low. At first I thought House employing courier as stupid, because it makes his assasination so easy. But really, making courier his servant is the only way to win the battle for Hoover dam, and House doesnt care it results in him biting the dust of lucky 38 basement 3 out of 4 times. Just makes you wonder how many similar gambles he has planned for his "space in 50 years" program
House doesn't gamble at all though. There are things he couldn't foresee, like his pact with the tribals biting him in the ass at the last second, because Benny somehow has 50 more IQ points than all the other casino leaders. The courier was only a bandaid fix to this error, and that 1/4 chance you argue with is a 4/4 chance when you're not omnisciently aware of the other endings. His perspective is "This is a transaction, you do the job you have accepted". He says that out loud.
And even then the "gamble" wouldn't involve the courier successfully killing him. You're blinded by the plot armour, the canonical courier goes down in .5s of minigun fire like every other human.
I'm not sure how you can argue that he's gambling when the absence of the first-act plot would mean that House has a guaranteed win at hoover dam. When you confront him at the end, Oliver is scared of the robot army, not you.
@@slyseal2091it is exactly my point, but I do think that it all does hang on a single decision outside of House control: the courier has to agree to work for him. And he does the best he can for it: welcoming courier as equal, even though he clearly is not, laying out grand vision of the future, showing full trust and so on, but he has to realise literally every power in the area would try to use courier instead, he has to know literally everyone else wants him dead, and he has to realize his whole plan could be compromized easily. House is shown to be obsessed with calculations, probabilities and plans. This is why I call him a gambler: he approaches this whole thing as a player - all or nothing. And whatever he had calculated for himself, it is clearly far from 100% success rate, but he plays it anyway
@@user-jz8pj4su5f No, that's exactly the thing, as far as the characters of the world are concerned the courier is worth about 5 people in power armour. That's extremely good at the scale of wiping out the Khans or hunting down Benny, but if you don't know he has plot armor it is logically unsound to think he could punch through Houses security detail, or wipe out Caesars HQ. If he didn't hire the courier, he would have just hired 5 people in power armour. Neither the NCR nor House nor Caesar think of him as anything other than the most immediate way of getting to their goals. "Immediate" standing in oppositon to "only".
@@slyseal2091sure, but House could have met courier somewhere other than his HQ, where no other man has entered in 200 years, exactly how he managed the families, I assume. House could have increased his security, because he would know for sure if courier visits NCR embassy, or could easily tell is Cesar met him in person. And the thing those people WOULD ask courier to do is to get rid of House. But alas - he acts as if he is oblivious to all this
Love that this game leads to such interesting talks between people... 🥂
warlockracy always knows how to spoil his fanbase - 2 videos in 1 month? just awesome.
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Yeah couple more years and this New Vegas series is finished :)
It could be two videos a week and I'd still need more Warlockracy
Why ghouls dont wear masks? I know i would want to wear one to hide my hideous face if i were one. Would go extra mile to personalise the mask to reflect my interests and make it look as fancy as possible. Like them carnival masks. I tried googling the topic - and nobody in the entire internet asked the same question as me. Why? It will make living near humans much more easier.
The smell most likely. Body odor isn't the most pleasant of things in the first place; then consider how malodorous what is essentially a *rotting corpse* must be. The smell is going to slowly permeate the mask and make their body odor very noticeable to them. Then you have the heat. Outside of the colder months the heat would eventually become unbearable. Lastly if the mask covers the nose and the mouth (which it would if you're trying to cover up your own ugliness) it's going to be hard to breathe in unless you use highly breathable material. Or you could just go the Humungus/Hockey Mask route I suppose.
@@walternelson2687 I’m sure with all of the futuristic technology that fallout has, there’s some in universe way to mostly get rid of the corpse smell. And people in real life wear these masks while breathing just fine, and even if they couldn’t breathe, it’s somewhat dubious whether or not ghouls even need to breathe (see: fallout 4, Billy, the kid in a fridge)
@@SadnessCentral If you bring up Fallout 4 as a lore reference in my presence again I will shit in your cornflakes.
@@walternelson2687 admittedly, east coast fallout canon is an affront to god. But my point about normal people wearing carnival masks and being able to breathe still stands. I hope if we ever get a continuation to the west coast fallout story the devs use this mask idea in some way.
@@SadnessCentral Those masks aren't worn all day every day plus all the mainline series old titles were in Southern California and it already gets pretty hot during the Dry Season here in Northern California. We don't get the proper 4 seasons imo. It is an interesting idea however. I could see at least a Tribe of Ghouls who do this for religious or other reasons despite the heat and smell.
The video started with discussing the Desert Rangers in Arizona calling back to your Fallout Sonora video indirectly (ik FNV is official, canon and was made BEFORE Sonora) , Cass being directly referenced to be Cassidy from Fallout 2's daughter - really adds to this video being a culmination of your classic fallout videos.
Another thing I'll point out - Caesar is basically a warlord, he's a military leader that has a lot of economic and administrative power - squanders it, using the Legion as just a roaming slave army; all his diatribe about Pax Romana and other crap feels hollow since he doesn't even bother using the actual important Roman knowledge that actually kept their civilization going for so long (integration of tribes and nations, citizenship, aquaducts, architecture, law, education, etc) Not forgetting too that Caesar hasn't even bothered to sire an heir (whether Adoptive - i.e an Augustus-esque character or a biological one) - these factors combined as Joshua Graham states: The Legion will die with Caesar. Yet Hilariously - Caesar's main interest in Hoover Dam and New Vegas is to finally establish a "Legion Civilian State" when he literally could've just set up one in Phoenix or Flagstaff; and even then in Caesar's Legion endings where he lives? The Legion still does the same shit as it did before; killing and enslaving. So much for a civilian state then?
But this serves the plot well since FNV is very much about "Old World Blues" and Nostalgia - Caesar is just a Roman Empire fan and like most Roman empire fans; they only care about the EPIC ROMAN ARMY (when in reality the Army after it's peak actually became a detriment and caused the collapse of the Empire due to corruption, barbarian mercenaries that weren't even romanized and being used to replace the Auxiliaries, and commanders becoming warlords and declaring themselves to be Emperor which is what will happen to CL after Caesar dies)
You know Caesar is a dumbass who doesn't know shit when he starts talking about the "bloated bureaucracy" of the Roman Republic. The republic barely any official bureaucrats whatsoever, just a few dozen elected officials and some state-owned slaves.
This has been my opinion for a while, but it always baffled me how to heck Casar was going to go from soldier to farmers.
Our grandfathers were soldiers, so our fathers could be farmers
Our fathers were farmers so we could be artists.
We were artists, so our children had to be soliders
@jeanvaljean341 Romans had farmers that were soldiers. And they had so many of them that they could have also engineers that were soldiers.
@@PobortzaPl they also had gigantic slave economy. That helped to do the farming, when all those soldier-farmer were busy at military campaigns abroad. In reality the Farmer-Soldier died after Marius, when professional year-round army was instituted, with wages, standard issue equipment and widened conscription. The closest Roman soldier got to farmer-soldiering was getting a plot of land after retirement from service, that were granted in such a way, as to prevent too high concentration of ex-soldiers in one area, to prevent uprisings, and other funny ideas.
I like framing the whole dialectic conversation as a rant to Cass, that was hilarious
31:15 - the following 7 seconds is absolute brilliance!
"easy-peasy!"
Kino
Also there is one video that feel that New Vegas’s “liberalism vs authoritarianism” is done better on Mr. House instead of Caesar.
Like he does rule a functioning city state and does not tolerate dissent (his main objective being getting a better robot army to maintain his rule and NCR is just proxy).
Are you talking about Soup Emperioum's video?
Yes
I like House. I feel like he fell victim to the writing idea of "everyone has to be shades of gray. No black and white allowed". The guy is the only faction in F:NV who could actually bring back pre-war technology and standards of living. So what you can't challenge him in an election? Move to Nipton, housing market there took a dive 😁
@@HypeRapEnjoyer The issue with House is that we've seen what happens to undesirables in his system. Freeside is a pretty gnarly indictment of poverty. He's not an evil warlord like Caesar, but he's certainly not unambiguously good.
@@batrachian149 He is self interested, like any living being. The squatters setting up shop on his doorstep are hardly his responsibility. Considering that he runs a business that relies on tourism, if anything, he showed restraint in not just clearing out that giant slum for discouraging incoming visitors.
As he himself states in his dialogue, he is not interested in telling people how to live their lives.
From what we see in game, he cares to enforce rules only so far as its necessary for the security and stability of the region under his control. There is no indication that he even collects any kind of tax from the population, since what is directly under him relies on automation, and the families make their money with their casinos.
The only really questionable and dictatorial thing he does that he was not pushed to by external circumstances, is forcing the local vaults population out to get rid of a potential source of trouble, and the lack of lingering resentment shown besides a single person being sad about it does not imply that much force had to be used.
Living under the "rule" of House, or what rather seems to be the lack of it, sounds less like authoritarianism, and more like a libertarians wet dream.
A criticism I have of this game in regards to how the Legion is portrayed in comparison to the NCR is that they're depicted as too competent, as opposed to the NCR drowning in bureaucracy and poor decisions. The Legion is comically efficient, when in real life fascism lends itself to yes-men (not to be confused with Yes Man) who are too scared to report bad news to their superiors so they end up falsifying information and inflating numbers. There's not enough backstabbing between Legion higher-ups in a cutthroat, "might makes right" system to get better benefits from their superiors. There's not enough irrational decision making from the tyrant head of state who is surrounded by timid enablers who are too afraid to call out bad ideas. Aside from "the ends justify the means" being an immoral position to take, a lot of media illiterate players will see the Legion as a necessity because they aren't shown with enough realistic flaws.
That’s an essential factor of a functional autocracy. The Courier shouldn’t be able to see the flaws, much less anyone else within NCR-occupied territory and even within the lower levels of the Legion itself. That’s an important part of what makes them appear so efficient and makes them so threatening; their ability to control information. Any mistakes you do hear about within the Legion are deliberately followed by stories of the immolated culprits being tossed into a canyon and their name’s stricken from the history books. I wouldn’t blame the writers for not filling in all the blanks for you, it’s what makes the conflict in the game so compelling for many others.
@@KmC0104 It's too convenient to handwave the lack of necessary flaws with "well, the Legion is just that good at controlling info" because that is essentially circling back to the original criticism. The Legion should *appear* to be highly efficient to outsiders to maintain their perceived threat level to serve as compelling antagonists, but if the Courier does quests for them, then the cracks should start to show, characters should start to complain and conspire in private. Not only the examples I gave previously, but even something like helping the put down a slave revolt. The blame of having the Legion come across as too unrealistic and one-note is on the writers, there needed to be more examples than just the Burned Man.
There's that centurion that got captured who explains that there is all of those things if you pretend to be a legion sleeper agent sent to kill him. Not much but it is certainly in the game.
@@blakebailey22 I agree with you on that point. You should see some cracks eventually if you are working within the inner circle of Caesar (I.e. doing quests for the faction). And you do. You learn of a critical flaw in Caesar’s plan and the bane of every depot’s empire: their own death. His brain tumor basically condemns him to death if he doesn’t get surgery, or you tamper with it to kill him yourself. And what happens after the death of Caesar? The inevitable collapse of the Legion via a power vacuum.
As you prove yourself to him by doing the quest line he touches on the lack of confidence in any direct successor to the Legion, and the vital nature of him staying alive, at least until someone capable is chosen. It highlights Caesar’s over-ambition and fixation on his legacy over the long term success of his nation, until the possibility of his death is realized first hand. You only learn of this oversight from Caesar directly (or other members of his inner circle, I think), while he and his advisors are in an obvious state of desperation and you build enough trust with them.
Again, the situation in the Mojave only seems one-sided when you have a perspective from the outside, and the limited interaction you have with the Legion if you don’t help them doesn’t paint the entire picture of the faction for obvious reasons. Their control of information isn’t just a convenient excuse for the writers to make the Legion seem OP or anything like that, it’s essential to the Legion’s survival. Otherwise they’d be tearing each other apart from the inside.
@@KmC0104 I don't know why you're coping so hard, it's actually annoying.
A lot of pompous writing for not saying much at all.
@blakebailey22 made a great point and it is something the game writers failed at, accept it. The legion simply isn't shown to be as rotten on the inside as it should, even when you do quests for them.
It's too perfect of an autocrat state, with its only real flaw being slavery. Remove that and you'd have (even) more players worshiping them as the saviors of the Mojave.
More than any of your bullshit excuses (like Caesar's tumor being a shown crack - what?!), the most likely real reason for this failure in the writing is that, as for everything else Legion, they're underdeveloped.
It's a part of the game that simply didn't get as much attention and nurture as the rest of the game, due to time and budget constraints. So inevitably every part of this content suffered, writing likely included.
It would have been great if they took some pages from classic cases of the Third Reich, for example. There would be so, so many. Like falsifying reports on defeats out fear of punishment, heavy interference from the autocrat on minute military decisions, endless plans for usurping power from the leader, heavy competition between the seconds-in-command to gain favor of the leader, a propaganda machine so effective that deludes even the decision makers resulting in catastrophic military failures, etc.
I don't know why you're trying to die on this hill, but you're wrong.
Still cannot stop laughing at "Dr. Kara-Yakoubian"
Please more Tamriel rebuilt
Post apocalyptic fiction seems to often have the "liberalism vs authoritarianism" conversation. Even Fist of the North Star did this, with Kenshiro and Ra-oh being presented as potential "uniters" of the anarchic society, but with different approaches to government.
And then Raoh punched air so hard, that his soul went in that direction.
Because "liberalism vs authoritarianism" is a very easy scenario to conjure in a post-collapse situation and two easy to understand political stance in direct opposition to each other.
The explanation of dialectics like halfway through was amazing. 10/10.
Hanlon can live after telling him to stop fabricating reports if you kill Caesar and tell him about it; that without Caesar the Legion won't even last five years, let alone ten
He has his doubts on whether that'll be the truth, but it gives him enough hope that he accepts it as a risk he's willing to take, and he thanks you for helping him come to his senses
This game has an incredible amount of contingencies and optional endings for certain quests dependent on what you do in the world, and I often lament on how much more of these "meaningful choices and consequences" the rest of the game could've had, had Bethesda given Obsidian _actual_ development time
On the other hand, there's something to be said about just shipping a thing. It took Obsidian a couple more major releases after New Vegas before it could be said that they had a release that wasn't a bug ridden/janky mess and was feature complete to their vision at launch (because Alpha Protocol was a HUGE mess and Pillars of Eternity 1 is super debatable I'd say Tyranny was really the start of their quality turnaround) it's rather arguable that at that time, no Obsidian developed game could be said to be truly well-made. And since they really were the masters of "Good Writing, but lots of Jank everywhere else," how much more could have really been accomplished with another six months or a year?
Because they ended up with another year on the project just due to the DLCs. In that time they patched and rebalanced and re-did a lot of stuff to the main game too. Yeah, their buggy launch screwed them out of some well deserved royalty payments due to that bad contract they signed with Bethsoft tying their bonus to metacritic ratings, but that also comes down to them not being forward thinking when it comes to contract negotiations as much as anything. In the end, the shortened development time didn't really affect the game's quality all that much when you consider how limited the engine was and how much extra time they actually had on the title to fix things up with the DLC cycle.
Considering we've seen several examples in recent years of how long development cycles really don't matter when it comes to the eventual output of a game if the core premise isn't really that good to begin with (FF15 and 16, Starfield, The Suicide Squad), I think Obsidian just getting a game finished is really the best outcome you can get out of them.
I'm going to nerd for a moment. Hegel's philosophy of history was trying to show how the birth of Jesus was basically baked into human history by God to respond, in part, to a view at the time that the birth of Jesus was a reactionary step taken by God in response to human wickedness. For God to be reactionary was to imply that God was neither omnipotent or omniscient, which Hegel couldn't accept. That's part of why Hegel is attractive to high brow con men, because at its base its just theology.
One of the practical things Hegel noted was that cultures which are in close contact with each other tend to go through this process of conflict and exchange, which Hegel called Aufhebung. This is what is commonly referred to as Hegelian synthesis.
What people (and the character Caesar) get wrong is this idea that somehow one of the cultures endures. It doesn't, that's the whole point. In the end neither culture is left, because they've both merged and changed to the point where neither is at all what they originally were. This is why using Hegel as an argument for cultural superiority is stupid.
Now, with that and $5 you can buy a coffee.
Hanlon do have an arc : if you let him continue his scheme and make a free Vegas he become a politician with a politic of "Kimball more like Kick Him In The Balls" and then become Senator of Redding. If you tell him to stop tho he get all sad and die in his ranch...
>Starts talking about grifters
>Cuts to both Dugins
This is why i love this chanel
Old man just won't die already.
@@TwoSouthFarm he'll get his eventually
You think there was a moment when Dugina was perfectly cooked?
@@marshaltito7232 it was more or less the moment Dugin realized he fucked up
Always a treat. Thanks for the quality content.
I was just thinking I really hope warlockracy video comes out today as I am going through a bit of a difficult time in my life right now. These videos are like a warm blanket to me, thanks man.
That arcanum OST while explaining dialectics? Top notch. I love watching your videos, keep it up.
Trying to undestand the filosofy of dialectics while drunk is very hard and funny. Do it when you can. Great video as ever War. A hug from Brasil!!!
FYI: "Philosophy"
no, filosofy
I lover your narration-analysis of New Vegas so much, I hope those videos will keep coming.
You know it's going to be an incredible start of the weekend when Warlockracy puts out a new video. Looking forward to watching many times! Love your storytelling dude
15:07 Я в мусарне (basically "i was arrested")
Hope this person is ok kek.
I love your writing, insight, joke delivery, editing - it's all so well done and makes each of your videos utterly captivating. Thanks for the content!
Seen pretty much all there was to see in New Vegas, but listening to your story telling is such a delight this feels fresh and new, awesome video m8.
You tell a story so well brother I’m always happy to see you drop more content and lore
I'm so excited to see how the playing card motif in these videos will end up. It's oddly exciting to see all of them laid out on the table as each piece of the game and all the new players are introduced. Great video!
Your videos make me THINK and I'm very thankful for that.
Caesar's use of dialectics, specifically Hegelian dialectics, is very interesting. Broadly, Caesar's *use* of Hegel is somewhat correct; he positions the NCR's *ideology* of liberal capitalist imperialism against his Legion's totalitarian, similarly imperialist ideology. Two "ideas" that contain contradictions in their existence aside each other (at least in Caesar's mind) and their justifications. Caesar's failure is thinking that this *synthesis* he is working toward entails destroying the NCR without absorbing any of its ideological foundations into his nation's own ideology. He is looking for subjugation and destruction, not a genuine synthesis - he wants the Legion's ideology to supersede and eliminate the NCR's.
Thus, I believe Cesar's tumor might have had an outburst and had him confuse dialectical materialism/Marxism with Hegelian dialectics; both have similarities, however Hegel was more interested in finding ontological answers - a fundamentally liberal, reactionary philosophy. Cesar's failure is that he thinks the mere, post hoc idea that justifies the violent imperialism of his Legion justifies its own expansion. The NCR falls into the same trap - this isn't a war of ideas, those are simply justifications for an overarching, overriding material justification: the Hoover Dam. Both nations will change in a historical dialectical/dialectical materialist process, not in a Hegelian way.
Doesn't Caesar acknowledge in dialogue that the conquest of the NCR will force the Legion to be greatly altered? Something like "right now the Legion is basically a state-sized war camp populated by tribal illiterates, but when we assimilate the cities of the NCR it will become a true civilian entity like the NCR, without republicanism and corruption". Although I suppose this suggests more of a "material" synthesis than an "ideological" one.
@@lukedufaur5368 Hahaha you're right. It's been a while since I've played. His conquest of the NCR is certainly dialectic in nature as it is an ongoing process. I suppose I was mainly speaking of how Caesar envisions his ultimate goal - I don't think his state would become significantly in regards to stability if he were to conquer the NCR. The Legion will certainly shatter after Caesar's death.
Thesis - Antithesis - Synthesis is Fichte, not Hegel. Cue the meme.
As far as I understand it, Hegelian dialectics is very specific that contradiction (or Negation) is not from OUTISIDE the object, it is from within. Hegel's dialectics specifically has the Abstract (or Material Conditions in case of Marxist dialectics I guess?) having contradictions that create within itself its own negation (moving from Quantity to Quality until a new Concrete is achieved). The contradictions of the NCR do that, by their corroding of their own democracy, their consolidation of oligarchy, their imperial-like expansionism, the militarization of their economy and society, all sabotaging their own concept and shaping into something qualitatively new. Same for the contradictions of the Legion, in special about Caesar. Some of those are caused BY the conflict, for sure, but...
But it just doesn't work that way Caesar says it. There is NO contradiction between the NCR and the Legion, there is just conflict - which I guess by his intentions Caesar kinda gets. Synthesis of some kind may or may not happen, but has nothing to do with Hegelian dialectics. Was the NCR created by the contradictions of the legion? Well, nope. Was the Legion created by contradictions of the NCR? Also nope. Hegelian dialectics have literally nothing to do with it, that is literally not how it works and supports (maybe unintentionally in this case because everyone gets Hegelian dialectics wrong, me included in the past) Caesar being a self-aggrandizing pseudo-intellectual pompous fool, as is kinda frequently implied.
@@Quarter324 yeah, I don’t buy that it will shatter after death. It could’ve, when he defeated those original 7 tribes or whatever, but after he conquered dozens through the decades? No, not gonna happen. Not to mention that some citizens will actually prefer legion rule to whatever was before it-Raul says as much. And it’s not like Legion has an absence of powerful figures: Lanius, Vulpes, Lucious: all them have an experience of leading men, and that’s all that matters. It’s weird that people will say stuff like: “legion is not a state, it’s just an oversized tribal warcamp” and “the legion will shatter after the death of Cesar” in the same sentence. An NCR might shatter if a warlord rose to power, but why would tribal warcamp collapse after the death of its chief?
@@max7971 Maybe those people learned what happened to the Mongol Empire after the death of Kublai Khan. Which in itself is interesting, because the death of Genghis Khan ended with some internal turmoil, but the empire was still in one piece after the fact. I am assuming the "Legion without Caesar will collapse" idea is just a different way of saying that his way of doing things are bad and Legion ending is bad without trully challenging the potential post-game period, which might end in some civil war, or just Lanius taking power with Vulpes as his right-hand man and continuing Caesars policies.
My favorite money spent on content. Thank you !
>A brief intermission to learn the difference between dialectics vs memetics
this is why i like your channel
I actually love your episodes of rambling about theory and politics. It can sometimes be a tad confusing or I seem to be missing some information but I always come away from it having learned something.
Thank you, Warlockracy. I'll be sure to turn this into my entire personality!
Your writing and editing continues to get better and better. You have a gift.
I don't know much about dialectics or diuretics, but I do know what diabetic is.
Well hey, I was just watching your video on OAAB, and the "hence the name" meme kept NV on my mind. I was wondering when you'd release another New Vegas video, and here we are!
I gotta say I really like the indirect route you took through the game, it has made me rethink how I do it too
Dialectics is an interesting and confusing topic. One of my favorite examples of the things it can answer, however, is "How are democracy and dictatorship positively related?"
Something not mentioned about Hegel is that he applied dialectics to concepts, but he also applied them to concepts *of history* too, for exmaple analyzing the peculiar ways Greek democracy functioned, why this freedom and individual subjectivity of the Greek freemen gave them the experience of politics and intrigue necessary to make themselves city-state warlords eventually, and the ebb and flow of the concept of "democracy" to our modern day (or in Hegel's tragic abortive case, the French Revolution and counter-revolution) where it's become the discursive field that sovereign mandates revolve around.
I think a lot could be said for this concept when you think of Caesar himself, outside of what he likes to *think and say about himself*. His time in the anarchist-coded Followers leads him down a path of cunning whereas most people in New Vegas are basically illiterate or ignorant of the outside world. Ironically, this guy could only have become a leader because of an egalitarian organization.
Praise be to Yakub, the creator of the BoS race.
I love when you use the video of the pig snorkling.
Gets me hyped every time.
Thank you for calling out Caesar's misuse of Hegelian dialectic. Joined your Patreon for that.
I played this game a bunch, but listening to your narration makes this video very interesting, good stuff
Absolutely love your use of Planet Alcatraz music for comedic effect.
Not only entertaining, but also educational. Best mix.
Possibly one of the people who's uploads I look forward to the most. Cheers.
I legitimately enjoy when you get into breaking down philosophy and logic to critically analyze games' writing and whether or not said writing/dialogue/etc. is absurd and silly or not, or meaningful and profound in general. Love the Fallout videos.
I've put hundreds of hours into New Vegas; absolutely love it. About a year ago I was about to start a playthrough, with a ridiculous number of mods and found only a handful of issues with said mods, which were simply the result of me installing them wrong. Unfortunately, I never started the playthrough. Maybe I should start now. Your Morrowind videos had me put something like 130 hours into a modded playthrough under House Telvanni in Tamriel Rebuilt --- good times. Sounds like that New Vegas run has been ordained by fate.
Your channel is fucking awesome, your playstyle and narration and everything else is craaazy good
Your quips are inspirational! Love the video, again 😂
I was just watching your first video of this series. luv u xoxo
And in the NCR ending Rose will spend a night with a random soldiers, but not with me, who will love and take care of her. Had to join a legion, in this case she could not refuse me. Billions must be enslaved.
Oh right I forgot cass cucks the courier. Zahnk from Mikeburnfire will hate that
I simply would raise my wife (cass)'s child.
Mental illness.
Mental illness.
Would rather romance a Deathclaw instead of Rose
Man I love that your reviews are so heavily narrative driven, most game reviews are just classic 20min going over what the game is, who made it some things you can do, but this format you have made is like watching a movie or netflix serie like breaking bad.
Hegel was also one of the main philosophers behind the historical "justifications" of modern slavery
Glad you're back and you're alright, considering everything. Thanks for the videos.
I really love some of the editing you do.
I had no idea why Rose, immediately after I spoke to her, said "You're not a cool guy" and walked off when I was exploring Vault 22. Didn't realize that I had come down with a bad case of evil and bad.
14:00 I would argue Gothic 2 was the closest to New Vegas and their version of level scaling. Everytime you move a story to the next chapter the state of the world changes and it also changes how you travel through this world.
In chapter 1 it is safer to walk on the roads and avoid local fauna because of our low level.
In chapter 2 we are better equiped and while some enemies are in bigger groups it is still beatable challange
In chapter 3 new enemies show up and old dangers are easy compared to new opponents which travel in more open civilian friendly places.
In chapter 5 war begins and everywhere there you see armies of the enemy forces and whole the world seems like a hopeless place.
Started reading Blood Meridian recently so this video came at the perfect time!
I think doing a video on New Vegas and showing me a new I haven´t seen in a video game essay about it is like the most difficult thing on this platform.. so good job
Hell yes. More comfy content to fall asleep to. Thank you warlock. You're a gift that keeps on giving.
Ahhh the Legion ... if you are male, teen and have a love for big words, without the desire to learn or understand big words, you have found your home^^
It was kinda weird how so many saw them as the "acutal good guys" back in ... 2010? wtf this game is only 14 years old. I thought i was way older oO
It's proof that people will make the wrong decisions whether the devs like it or not
No wonder writing for RPGs of this kind is such a nightmare
thats the thing, you can see them as actual good guys. That's why they let you join them. Doesn't matter whether theyre ackchually actually good, it's a game. Just have fun.
@@monseurwanksalotte3477 isn't that the purpose of an rpg game? to make decisions and see how they turn out in the game?
writing a story is surprisingly easy when you stop thinking about being the morals police
Glad that even though I first played the game at the stereotypical "women bad, fascism good" age, I never bought into that or the Legion being the good guys.
It just really landed at the right time where alt-right discourse is on the rise again really.
New Warlockracy and Grimbeard videos in 24 hours, god we're spoiled
Did not expect to find a mention to the goth gamer himself here
Just had an awesome walk in Texas, watched Dune II, and Warlockracy uploaded a video. Can it be a better day?
Edit: It got better, I had amazing fajitas
Thank you for putting the correct suits on the chairman ❤️
I love how content creators like you make it refreshing to watch a playthrough of the game one played too many times. I wish you could've done a short video about communalistic Followers - they have an interesting conflict of following the NCR around since their beginning, and what made me sad - they don't have a future worthy of their cause in any of endings.
I just realized Chief Hanlon is naive and I had misjudged General Oliver. Hanlon complains that his plan was to station the Rangers on the ridge above the dam so their sharpshooters could take out the Legion as they attack, which was the same place they were stationed in the First Battle of Hoover Dam. He said Oliver overrode his decision and ordered they be placed on the dam itself, which Hanlon claimed was because Oliver was jealous the Rangers got the credit for the victory at the First Battle.
BUT, in the Legion ending of the game, if the Legion's artillery is repaired they will lay down constant fire on that ridge, presumably expecting the Rangers to be there again. If Hanlon had had his way, his Rangers would have been slaughtered before they could have fired a single shot. So, it could very well be that Oliver's decision was based on experience, and he knew you should never place your troops in the same spot twice, whereas Hanlon naively thought if it worked once it will work again.
Hanlon, being a Ranger, has little experience in full scale warfare and is thinking like someone fighting raider gangs rather than a professional army. It didn't occur to him that his opponent will analyze the First Battle and be ready to counter any tactics the NCR used in it. Like so many inexperienced soldiers, he failed to recognize his commanding officer's decisions weren't about arrogance or pettiness, but about decades of training and experience. Hanlon knows how to win a battle, Oliver knows how to win a war.
My last 2 braincells in the shower convinced me that Warlockracy is like if somebody crossed Hbomberguy with Wendigoon.
I don't know what track you used in this video, but it kept tricking me into thinking my tinnitus was acting up lol. 26:46
8:38 "...Assuming? No, I'm not assuming anything, that's just what you people do, the royal "You", as in...
Look, we got off on the wrong foot, together we shall speak for the law, and the land, and drive the mongrel lizards of the Empire..."
Howard Hughes towards the end of his life also became the defacto lord of Las Vegas, he was instrumental in reforming and investing in it, all while secluded in a hotel penthouse while he spiraled further into madness.
Kind of odd to miss that comparison
So happy I have a certified warlockracy banger waiting for me after work!
I was able to successfully use dialectical materialism to predict when my grandparent was going to die. Great method of analysis, highly recommend folks read about it. Wish the author had a twitter so I could thank him in the dms. I hated my grandpa.
This here is why I love your videos so much.
Zero...zero...zero...
I need you as my work out buddy. Probably would hate you as a consequence, but I would get jacked in the process.
Using the playing cards during explanations is very cool.
New Vegas is like taking a bath in a tub full of glittery radioactive goo while wearing a banana suit and reciting Hegel backwards. It's a wild rollercoaster ride through a post-apocalyptic desert filled with zany characters and crazy creatures 👀
I frequently forget how funny you are. Well done once again
Getting a mini lecture about Hegelian Dialectics was a pleasant surprise. I learned while being entertained!
Always a treat, hope youre doing well
Btw, it seems Vulpes lies about the people of Nipton not opposing resistance some people seems to have done it. In one of the houses you find 2 or 3 legionaries dead due to traps and in the trailer park besides the town you find a dead wastelander with a laser rifle and a pile of ass with a legion uniform
Pile of ass, huh?
I think it make sense he's lying to you at some details, its because he intend to implant a mind propaganda to you and let you act as a 'infection agent'. If he being directly honest, the whole operation would have less impact. Heck, it might turn against them by embolding surrounding settlements.
He's a Frumentarii after all, misdirection and propaganda is his expertise. He want to create image.
"pile of ass" 💀
Nice typo :)
THANK YOU for bringing up level scaling, I think its one of the one most overlooked reasons for FNV being so good.