Or, conversely, to become really possessive of women and not send them out on missions or anything when you're desperate for more population growth Which, you know, is the pragmatic reason for the Seraphite policy that drives Lev into exile (uteruses as a precious resource)
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Ehh, I never got that impression from the Seraphite policy. The Seraphites are what they are because of a desire for power - we ironically have very little actual evidence humanity's numbers are threatened in TLOU2, and the various communities seem quite self-sustaining (cont)
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
If anything the consistent numbers of runners, morbidly, suggest humanity as a species is thriving - runners only include recent infectees - and the WLF and Jackson's core infrastructure are not threatened. Ellie also mentions "caravans" moving along SoCal's coast.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
The Seraphites obviously aren't actually concerned about reproduction - if they were, they wouldn't be so ready to send a bunch of women out to their probable deaths. But that hits the part where a lot of TLOU's mooks are...weirdly diverse, like, in a way that seems contrarian?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
like you would NOT expect the fungal apocalypse to have all social groups and new communities break evenly down in neatly diverse groups rather than being affected by racism and other forms of bigotry, much less the *antagonistic* groups thereof.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Fallout does this too, in ways which always felt weird - the Mormons remain a distinct ethnic and religious group but *no* other pre-War groups seem to in so much of the United States?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
They are arguably the largest and most resource equipped group with a built in prepper culture. I could see it.
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Replying to @atlasimpure @loudpenitent and
That's the in game justification I believe
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @atlasimpure and
Sure, but why did *literally nobody else make it*? (The answer is because Fallout is about Americana, but apparently racism isn't considered Americana but Mormonism is?)
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
it's because video games really really don't like talking about American racism in frank terms
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I think I can say as a person of color that the idea that the apocalypse would cause racism in America to evaporate and create a new color blind society is outright laughable to me
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Oh it's utterly absurd. Even if it results in many individuals & communities discarding it, across the board? fuck no.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
At best, it’ll devolve to tribe based/regional hate but that presumes your different race neighbor will be seen as in-group.
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