I can just imagine the news headlines now...
Post-apocalyptic: Forum Built on Hate Harbors Neo-Nazis
An ancient Fallout forum full of bitter, longtime fans of Fallout 1, 2, and New Vegas has a secret. While many of its users spend most of their time posting about hating Bethesda, one of their most prolific members - making more than 35,000 posts over the years - has found something else to post about.
In a recent news thread, the user was seen sporting a swastika underneath his username while making homophobic and transphobic remarks. It's a callback to the old, wild west days of the internet; a time when the terms "woke" and "cancel culture" would not exist for many years.
The angry post comes in the wake of Tim Cain's YouTube channel being launched. His tell-all videos include many revelations about the games he worked on, but one that gained the most visceral reaction was the video titled "Being a Gay Game Developer".
A surprised user with only a 154 posts - clearly a casual - pointed out the rarity of seeing someone sporting an LGBT avatar coexisting in the same space as someone sporting a swastika in their bio. Other users chimed in to explain the apparent discrepancy: they're both being ironic, and the swastika is in fact only being used as a symbol of Paganism.
Although Tim Cain stated for the record that he enjoyed Fallout 3 and played it many times - and encouraged viewers to simply play video games that they enjoy rather than obsess over games that they dislike - another user of the forum simply commented with the following: "This makes me hate Bethesda even more."