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Sure, if you have Cherchez La Femme you can flirt with her, but she's so garishly over-the-top I don't see how you could take that as anything but a defensive tactic.

The rape victim I didn't read as gay but as reacting to trauma.

I just find it great that they have a gay character and his biggest characterization isn't that he's gay. (Actually, FONV has quite a few gay characters, and insinuates a largely open society altogether. I suppose, when every third person looks like beef jerky, you can't be too picky. ;) )

A lot of it's left up in the air, but you can assume quite a bit, tho. Various characters expatriated from the Hub, Klamath and New Reno point out that they're still there, and that New Reno's run by the Wrights and the Van Graffs. NCR's assumed to own pretty much everything, which means the...

I do like how, over the course of three games they went from random raiders to a cohesive tribe (of raiders) to something akin to Indians in Oklahoma, as the NCR took over, with Bitter Springs filling in for the Sand Creek massacre.

There are not-so random encounters. Pretty much the entire plain south of Novac, east of Nipton and west of Searchlight is filled with caravans and legion and NCR patrols who often get into firefights. Same with the area south of Westside and west of Camp McCarren: Scorpion gangers vs...

Crafting allows me to break things down into component parts that don't weigh anything. For ammunition alone, this is a cheap and easy way to carry nigh-infinite amounts of ammo in Hardcore, so long as I visit a workbench once in a while, to recombobulate them. That said, just about...

The gender divide in pretty much all occupations is fairly equal, nobody so much as blinks an eye no matter your origins, politics or sexual orientation (then again, it is Vegas), religion wasn't even mentioned as anything more than talking brahmin skulls... hell, NCR might even be more liberal...

For the PC, pressing "2" will swap ammo types when the gun is drawn.

A tyranny of the majority is about as egalitarian as the rule of the lynch mob. Part of modern democracy is the preservation of the rights of the minority. Not that it all terribly matters - the question one should really ask oneself is, "is this a society I could see myself living in?"...

Well, to be fair, you spend the vast majority of your time on this end of the Colorado River.

One could argue that Mehmed II made the Ottoman Empire and Selim II sealed its doom. One could argue that Genghis made the Mongol Empire and the circumstances following Ogedei's death caused it to fracture. The communist states of Russia and China are commonly chronologued through the rule...

So, basically, House is an autocratic dictator using an army of robots to rule over the tribals he allows to live (remember Freetown? Yeah, those were people on House's bad side.) and doesn't care about the bloodshed and anarchy outside his city-state's borders, of which there is quite a lot...

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried," so said Churchill before he got booted outta office. Even if the people in Caesar's Legion were truly loyal to Caesar, that's not the same as being loyal to the Legion. An empire that's wholly...

I find this whole debate over the political implications vis a vis the NCR and the Legion rather silly, for two reasons: 1) Taxes aren't evil. 2) The Roman Empire crumbled. (Also, Rome charged taxes, too.) I'm not saying the NCR are the good guys and Caesar's Legion are the bad guys. When...

I look at it thusly: What makes art interesting isn't so much that any one piece is everything, but that each piece is limited - constrained by time, by materials, by subject matter, by perspective - and the creativity involved is largely due to subverting, bending and extending those...

Not terribly dissimilar to folks who didn't play GTA, GTA:UK or GTA2, and as such were introduced to the GTA series through GTA3... on the xbox.

As compared to all the snakes who make no such attempts.

Also, because of how awful its story is.

Okay. You see, right there: That's Win.