sarsaparilyptus
It’s not, confrontational comments like that come from a place of pain. When you see smug assholery about religion and coming from an American, 99% of the time it’s coming from someone who got treated like shit by their evangelical parents. Comments like the one you responding to aren’t really an expression of opinion; if you could translate it into its most basic form, all it actually says is “fuck you, dad”.
You have too much faith in humanity. Blind, irrational devotion to your beliefs with no regard for reality is not exclusive to religion. Browse a conservative forum for a few minutes and you’ll come across plenty of atheists who also have fundy-esque devotion to nonsensical right-wing concepts like trickle-down. Not even cults have to be religious: just ask people who believe in the Jason Fung Diet or chronic lime disease why they think the scientists are wrong. Religion is just a means to an end for most dogmatists, their real god is the dogma itself.
Unfortunately the franchise has a few of those. You could easily be referring to 4, 76, Tactics, or Brotherhood of Steel. Depending on how much of a Fallout purist you are, you could also extend it to 3, and there are some people who (incorrectly) insist that Fallout 2 was the first and last good game in the franchise.
Half-Life Alyx, because they made me wait a lifetime for another HL game and it’s a VR game. I’m sure it’s the best VR game money can buy, but playing it as intended would cost me a fortune and all I’d get out of it is motion-sickness-induced projectile vomiting.
Durable coins that won’t wear out for small purchases (back when things actually cost pennies), and paper bills for large purchases with the anti-counterfeiting measure of being able to have large, intricate designs.
