I can't bring myself to play as the BoS. Their rhetoric and blatant racism reminds me too much of the people in my hick ass hometown. I do it just long enough to raid the armory and everything not nailed down on their base, then kill as many as I can and leave.

Yeah its not like 99.9% of the population of the Commonwealth hates Snyths, Super Mutants, Feral Ghouls and Raiders.......damn those Nazi Brotherhood guys with beliefs in racial purity, just like the Nazis who persecuted Snyths, Super Mutants, Feral Ghouls and Raiders as well.......wait, the Brotherhood don't persecute people because of their religion or race........well I'm sure there are other links to Nazis. Were they fighting a black ops Synthetic infiltration of post apocalyptic society?

Its like for some history started with WW2, if you want a better comparison go with the Religious Military Orders of Western Christendom since the Brotherhood is heavily based upon them.

I agree, but I thought I'd give it a shot since I've just been destroying them on all my other runthroughs. I can swallow my bile for a ti, I suppose.

Why do you loathe them?

I did that, I suggest laser and plasma weapons with power armor so you become a tin can laser shooter (I stole Maxon's gun by maxing pick pocket) also you can yell "All inferior impure life forms will be EXTEMINATED"

What about the Brotherhood do you find so objectionable?

Militaristic......okay they are a quasi religious military order, so being militaristic is something of a given and that is largely being directed at highly hostile groups that the vast majority of the Commonwealth citizens would happily seen wiped out.

Isolationist.......well they were, but no they will take any non-mutated human into their ranks, so that no longer applies in the East at least. They will not recruit ghouls, but equally there is no evidence that they have ever actively persecuted ghouls either.

Racist........weakest argument for me as they don't actively 'persecute' any non-hostile group except for runaway Synths and then we are back in the discussion why a human like body makes them special compared to all the other Synthetic lifeforms (Robots) running (and floating) around who have apparently no special rights that Synths should now be given due to an humanoid body.

There is the ability to kill settlers and steal their land, which the quartermaster guy will turn a blind eye to, but I'd put that directly on the player as you can also kill settlers and steal their land at any time in the game......two out of three of your options in those missions are peaceful.

Paramilitary BS, xenophobia, condescension, selfishness and the knowledge that they're only purpose is to drain the commonwealth dry of all resources and then move on to do the same to somebody else. Mostly because they hate everybody though.

I'm a synth, super, critter and ghoul lover. If the BoS had their way, everybody and everything would be dead and they would rule the world.

Ah, so you're anti-human. I see.

they would make good Daleks

No. Just anti-BoS. I happen to like the settlers, scavengers and even some of the raiders. It's a shame to see them being abused by the BoS. I prefer to do it myself. Besides, they're competition for my own dominance and they're the biggest dingbats I've ever seen. Ever since I ran in to Danse on my first playthrough and saw how inept he was against maybe 20 ferals and then was rude to me after I saved his tuckus, I've been turned off by them.

Sorry guys, but killing everybody and everything and subjugating everything left is not my idea of a good time.

Ah, so you hate all of the humans in this game, who also hate Super Mutants, Feral Ghouls, Raiders, hostile creatures etc........

Absolutely no evidence that BOS have any wish to see everyone and everything dead, beyond ridding the world of the hostile creations of the great war and in their heavy handed way try to ensure no one destroys the world a second time through the use of technology.

I'm also not seeing any attempt to subjugate anybody, the Brotherhood seems to spend the majority of the game fighting things that are a threat to the majority of the Commonwealth citizens.......okay they need to learn how to fly vertibirds, but they are the only force actively trying to make the Commonwealth a safer place.

Or Borg.

The BOS want to protect humanity by eliminating everything that poses a threat to it. Like Supermutants, who eat people by the way.

No no, they are being persecuted by the nasty metal men.........beside, bring up their diet is racist.

Ohhhh.. right. What was I thinking

Also the Feral Ghouls just want a hug, the Raiders just want to discuss the fair distribution of resources and the animals just want to play fetch.

Well we eat people too and use they're entrails and blood as artistic accouterments.

Your point?

I like Supes. I have all along. There's is something organic about them and, after the revelations of 3 (played that before 1 & 2), I have sympathized with them.

Also don't have that big a problem with ferals or any other ghouls.

We made them the way they are. Accept it and move on.

I don't kill wolves because they're hunting my sheep. I don't hunt lions because they're killing my livestock. Why would I hunt Supes that happen to prey on the unwary?

Don't get me wrong. I'll defend myself, but, if you're enough of an idiot to not be able to defend yourself, don't you kind of deserve what you get? It is a post-apocalyptic land of monsters and self induced paranoia, after all.

Reduce the excess population. Survival of the fittest. Blah, blah, blah...

no Borg want to assimilate every species into their collective making every species into Borg much like Cybermen do including Data and other machines, it would not fit the build as well as Daleks who want to kill everything that is not a "pure" Dalek

Now you're talking!

My game is obviously bugged as all of these peace loving people and creatures seem to be trying to kill everything else in my game.......please Bethesda sort it out!

Question: How does the BoS feel about the use of performance enhancing substances? I can make plenty of refreshing beverages and whatever that addiction curing food is, plus there's always Doctor's if needed.

It's their hatred of all ghouls that irks me. Sure, I mean, [censored] the ferals...but the ones who can still function are just physically different...

All the factions have their flaws.

Railroad are shortsighted and don't seem to care about anything other than synths.

Minutemen are idealistic to the point of naivety

Institute are elitists and don't care about the layman

BoS seem to be focused on an antiquated ideal of what the world should be. Extort farmers for their crops, seem uninterested in improving quality of life for people outside the brotherhood.

Danse frowns upon it, but I was still able to reach max affinity with him, and I used quite a bit of psycho-jet at lower levels when I was traveling with him. Other than that they don't seem to care.

Since Danse is a putz, I really don't care. I stick with dogmeat and strong. Now them I can get along with... oh wait, Strong doesn't like PA, does he. Dern it! Does anybody like PA? (I mean other than Danse that is).

Edit: My bad - Strong and XS-88 don't care if I use PA. Good.

A putz? Why do you say that? Danse is a good guy. Probably the most honorable fighter in the brotherhood. You can get all human companions to wear PA.