Saying “that’s not my job” is literally one of the most American things you can say. Do you think Musk or Bezos or Gates or Zuckerberg or Pichai would ever pick up a mop and bucket at their office? In North America, delegation to middle management, expanding the bureaucracy, is the name of the game. Only peons buy into the “gotta pick up the slack for my coworkers!” mentality.
Most of the time I encounter it, it’s completely selfish bullshit. I’m the asshat that gets stuck doing everything that everyone else says “it’s not my job” when it literally is. Just because people think cleaning up after themselves isn’t their job doesn’t mean it isn’t.
I get if you’re an office worker and somehow you’re expected to clean a toilet or something, but if you use a printer or something and it runs out of paper, just get more fucking paper… The next person is just going to have to do it even though you were the one to empty it.
That is the exact logic that leads everyone to take advantage of you. It is a business not your home.
It’s not that anyone knows I do it so they don’t, it’s that it needs to be done and no one does it so I do. I can’t just let shit fester, it’s just not in my nature. It’s an ethics thing for me I think, it feels “wrong” to leave something undone that I know needs to be done.
I have strayed out of thought and time, I’ll answer your email tomorrow Carol.
I litterally did a screenshot of that yesterday, because I played fo3 again, I wanted to post it some time today…
are you betazoid or something?
EDIT: It’s also especially funny, since Fawkes is imune to radiation
EDIT2: In my screenshot I managed to get him into the chamber
That was by far my favorite part of FO3, because it’s just so stupid. You get a companion who would literally be the best person for the job, and they go “That’s gonna be a no from me dawg. It’s your destiny to go kill yourself for the sake of the wasteland”. What the fuck dude, do you want me to die?
I’m pretty sure the Broken Steel DLC added the option for Fawkes to actually go in the chamber, but then the game gets all pissy about you not killing yourself. To this day it makes no sense to me, but I’ve grown to accept that Fallout 3 (and by extensions all modern Bethesda titles) is filled with literary nonsense.
I think part of the game berating you for making the followers do it might be because Bethesda couldn’t get Ron Perlman back into the studio to voice more endings for Broken Steel, so they reused the ending lines for making Lyons activate it (in which case it rightfully tells you off for selfishly sending her to die) and made different slides for the new endings with the followers.
Then they killed Lyons off screen anyways to turn the Brotherhood full fash, despite the Lyons definitively leading the Brotherhood to their greatest ever victory and their induction of Wastelanders giving them a loyalist core against exactly that…
But, no, apparently a couple of jackass Exiles were secretly more popular.
Like, don’t get me wrong, perfectly natural development for them to go fash, just don’t do Lyons like that.
Clearly should have been a moment for the player to decide. Having someone who is supposed to be a friend refuse to save you when it would be easy for them to do so is terrible writing.
FO3 must have been in the first wave of “game devs have children now, so every AAA game is about father-son relationships”. I wasn’t sick of the trope yet, and actually got really into the story FO3 wanted to tell. I played it close to release, did the self sacrifice at the end, and generally hold that experience in high regard.
Then I loaded an earlier save and tried asking the robot to do it. I belive I had a mister handy follower, been a while, but of course it also refuses with some silly rationale. Bethesda games are both so immersive and yet full of these peeks backstage that constantly expose the artifice of it all (and the latent biases of their creators).
It didn’t exactly ruin the magic of that first run, but it did make any subsequent plays feel very… toy boxy. I had kind of the same experience with Elden Ring and Skyrim, now that I’m thinking on it. That first playthrough is like watching LotR, then every other one is like smashing Gandalf and Orc action figures together (or playing any of the LotR games lol).
