Yeah, FO3 wasn’t perfect, but at least it had its darker edges. Feel like a slaver? Sure, no problem, you can enslave random wastelanders and sell them for profit. Screw over BoS? Broken Steel let you do that, RIP Citadel. The Pitt gave an antagonist with a motive which turned out to be a bit more nuanced than it initially seemed. You could roleplay a fat-shaming, racist PoS if you wanted to, instead of presenting only safe options.
Meanwhile a Bethesda game like Fallout 3 had its fair share of flaws, but gave you plenty of opportunity to decide if you wanted to be the good guy or not. Blow up a town? Kill off all residents of Tenpenny Tower, or whack all the ghouls that want to take up residence? Why not all of them? You decide!
It also wasn’t afraid of locking players out of quests if they behaved like an asshole. I liked that, why would somebody try to work with you after you just gave them the proverbial finger?
Far better than ‘oh golly, you just told me that I’m not a nice person. Well, that’s not very neighbourly of you, but I’ll pay you my life-long savings if you hop over to the next hub and return my package that I conveniently know is collecting dust over there, but can’t be bothered to fetch myself’.
Coca Cola would ideally scale down while Fritz would have to scale up. I don’t see why this has to cost Europe fizzy drink making jobs.
Fritz is not made in the same locations, what good would a created job opening in North Germany do a factory worker in, let’s say, Spain? Downscaling is much easier and quicker than upscaling, so unfortunately I see plenty of opportunity for lost jobs. Even when it is temporary, depending on how good your local social safety net is, it can hurt people.
And there is the price aspect: in my local supermarket Coca-Cola costs € 2,39/l where Fritz costs € 4,52/l. Principles cost money, but not everybody is able to afford such a steep price difference.
Fortunately these are luxury products and I hardly drink the stuff anyway, but it does make the move a lot harder.
Fuck, when reading back I feel like I’m defending American interests. That’s absolutely not my intention btw. I do support the movement, but I think it is good to realise that stuff in real life isn’t as black and white as we’d perhaps like it to be.
I agree in general, but regarding ‘buy European products’, how do you define a European product?
A lot of American brands are actually produced in Europe, for example Hellmann’s or Lays. Not buying them might hurt the American overlord a bit, but it will impact European workers first.
Coca-Cola seems obvious, American right? However, for Europe it’s British Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc which produces and distributes a lot of the Coca-Cola brands. It is partly owned by American investors, but again: it will hurt European workers long before the American investments companies which (partly) own it.
Some European brands are ultimately owned by American companies. Are these European or American?
I absolutely agree with the sentiment we should buy European first. But the web globalism has spun makes it so fucking hard to determine what is European and to buy European without also hurting fellow Europeans.
Morrowind.
Can you find this person whom wandered off into the ashlands? They went east-ish.
I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit in the Construction Kit to find out where in Vivec’s name I had to go this time. Usually it turned out I just barely missed the person or location I had to go before starting an hourlong search.
But despite that still a game I deeply love.
From what I read that actually wasn’t true , at least not for the ‘you wouldn’t steal a car’ (or more officially: ‘Piracy. It’s a crime.’) clip.
Impressive that it was implemented with just Lua and, from what I could see, without completely destroying the framerate.