One of the longtime community members passed away, it's a symbol for mourning.
Both.
But blogs are so dumbed down these days that they'll gain far more viewership on /d.
Yes, he still recognizes them.
Absolutely.
The main problem with "The Legion will inevitably collapse" thing isn't that it's unlikely, it's that the collapsing Legion won't simply disappear. It's one of the largest postwar nations we know of and ruled by tyrants obsessed with their living god. When the Legion is gone it'll be replaced by multiple factions perhaps not as powerful as the unified whole but more than likely all as bad.
Amazing.
That sounds like the name of any anime post-2018: "Cinnamoroll Will Conquer Japan With His Smile XDXD!"
It's stated that they have indisputable control of the territory east of the Colorado, not that they never crossed it.
What's your source on the Rio Grande border though? Because Sallow states the Legion territory controls all of old New Mexico, a territory that would be divided by the Rio Grande. "Much of the Utah and Colorado, and all of Arizona and New Mexico, are mine. We have cities of our own, but nothing compared to Vegas"
It was not the same region. The TV show took place in a small area of the NCR states Shady and Los Angeles, in what was once California. The Legion controls most of the old Four States Commonwealth.
Dystopian fiction is simply a story set in a society where a collapse (generally but not always moral in nature) has led to conditions within that society becoming frightening.
With that in mind, Fallout would technically be dystopian. The Wasteland is a cruel place to live in and many bastions of civilization are dealing with their own brands of corruption. However, the setting's themes come more from it being a world recovering from the apocalypse than society purposefully reinforcing terrible conditions on itself. It would probably be more accurate to say that Fallout as a whole is post-apocalypse fiction with elements or dystopia (Institute, Legion, pre war America, etc).
This is supported by nothing in-universe. It's speculation.
Human breeding age goes til late 40s. Canyon Runner states that Sammy is young enough to breed, but her mother is not (full context). Sammy is an adult NPC. You're using the fact that she is still living with her family to claim she must be a child, and the use of an adult NPC model is incorrect? Nothing in-game supports this.
To reiterate what was said before: the Legion more than likely does sexually abuse children, since it's outright stated that Sallow reinforces harsh beliefs in their culture to promote rapid population growth. But in this case you're making up evidence for this where there is none.
That's now how that works.
Just to clarify, there is no reference to child sex slaves at Cottonwood Cove. The daughter in the family kept there (Sammy) is young, but clearly uses the adult NPC model. Not the child one.
This is not to say the Legion doesn't do that. It would not exactly come as a shock given how dark their culture is.
From a premise standpoint, the Pitt is an intriguing, unique location.
Ashur's vision is to spread law and order across the Wasteland, reigniting civilization in a far more direct way than he helped to do while in the Brotherhood. And yet, his intended heart of the new America is literally a slave nation built on misery, suffering, and the deferred promise of a safe future.
The closest other city we have to this idea is Flagstaff, the Legion capital, but we barely know anything about the location itself.
It's genuinely a rite of passage on Nukapedia to have someone write an essay in response to your post
Exactly what App stated.
The Legion as it currently exists is only what Sallow believes it needs to be in order to eventually develop a new nation.
As an example: the Legion's misogyny is not necessarily Sallow's own opinion about women, but the beliefs he promotes in order to increase the Legion's population.
^^I'm hesitant to consider the Legion a smaller threat since they are, at the moment, the second largest nation we know of in the Wasteland. Sallow's empire controls the majority of the Four States area, and is constantly trying to expand and conquer.
The Enclave are far better equipped and more spread out but have very few members by comparison.
I mean, the Roman Empire had legitimate positive advancements for human civilization. The Legion has none.
Imo it's a pretty hard answer, because they're essentially after the same thing in the end. They each want to enslave the rest of the Wasteland and wipe out anyone who would oppose them and their ideals.
By events of F3 the Enclave have been turned off from the whole "Let's kill everyone" idea. Now they're "Let's kill everyone who is a problem, and enslave the rest". Sallow intends to turn the Legion around once he conquers the West, but he's bound to die in a few years so.....
Nothing will be better than the Enclave's dept that deals in assassination being officially named "the Department of Peace and Recovery"
You power armor. Yes, it's power armor.