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#meanwhile we have America 2.0 Bear Flag Republic Edition and Ancient Rome Larpers duking it out over a restored to function dam
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I love how, at least according to his hair chart, Micky never did Honest Hearts. Dude really just inhaled poisoned gas while bomb collared, got his brain, heart, and spine took out of his body by robots, and rediscovered his tragic past of accidentally getting his hometown nuked, but noped tf out of that weird racist Mormon shitshow. Good for him
I actually have where if he does do honest hearts, its likely in a lull during the main game, cause it just doesn't really fit with the overarching plot of sorts he has goin post game with following Ulysses' trail and his own past through dead money -> old world blues -> lonesome road I also just do not want to acknowledge the racist shitshow we got in the actual game. Ages ago I saw an excellent post by an indigenous creator on here about how they would adjust honest hearts to be, well, not a racist shitshow, that I unfortunately have not been able to find again or I’d link it here (the jist was make the white legs and sorrows be just post apocalyptic communities and not 'tribes' because they don't have native american origins, and have the dead horses just be Diné (Navajo), as well as give pretty much all the groups more agency away from joshua graham and daniel. As well as just reworking pretty much everything to do with joshua's story because that is just a mess) If Micky ever participated in the story of Honest Hearts, I'd want it to be something along the lines of what was laid out in that post, because the version we got in the game is just so frankly reprehensible wrt to its racism against indigenous people in general and native americans in specific I refuse to engage with it again
#courier micky#to even mention that the plot of honest hearts as we got it was just narratively unsatisfying feels so laughably minor a gripe#vs the incredible amount of offensive stereotypes erasure appropriation and white savioring on display#that I couldn't bring myself to put it into the main post#but I will mention it down here that the main story just wasn't very good#it felt too much like a cut and paste white savior narrative and trying too hard to show why the bacon mormon was a good guy now actually#that it lost any depth and had nothing compelling to say#which is further highlighted by the fact that honest hearts has one of my favorite stories in all of video games in it#that of randall clark- the survivalist and the father in the caves#a plot so good that I think there could be something worth salvaging in the dlc if you were to rework it from the ground up#which is the only reason I would want micky to interact with it at all even as an alternate take#also a moment for how laughably racist it is to assume that native american cultures that have survived outright genocide couldn't make it#300 years post the bombs dropping#without becoming completely unrecognizable#meanwhile we have America 2.0 Bear Flag Republic Edition and Ancient Rome Larpers duking it out over a restored to function dam#if the fucking mormons could stick around I think the dine (just picture the accent on the end idk how to type it in) would be just fine#('but you got the accent in the main post-' i copy pasted it from google)
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