» Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:30 am
They lead monotenous lives, most don't ever leave the city's walls or even into the Courtyard, any records that they may be tainted from radiation are swiftly deleted and the concept of democracy is ridiculed as "mob rule", they are oppressed and unhappy and they don't even know it; there's even a Nineteen Eighty Four reference when they say they feel, "doubleplusgood", the developers meant for them to be brainwashed drones. Hate has to stem from somewhere, and when the majority VC citizens are denied any form of comparison because they are almost scared to leave the walls and the city proper, because they are told that the wasteland is a bad place and most outside VC are not to be trusted.
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Non of which is primary evidence of Brainwashing. Yeah, they're isolationist, arrogant and afraid of the outside world, as you'd really expect any bunch of vault dwellers to be, not through brainwashing but because they've been living in the womb for decades. I'm not aware of any "DoublePlusGood" reference, but it sounds like it could just be a reference to the beurocratic nature of Vault City.
Do you have any evidence of the Developers intentions? Bible Post? Leaked Design Doc?
Indeed "Hate" does have to come from somewhere, but here its the rather simple place humans have been finding it for centuries. They are not like us, they have funny physical characteristics, therefore we hate them. No different to common racism found in humanity since, well, since we became aware of teh "Funny people" just over the hill (not saying I endorse racism, quite the opposite, just that its been around for a long time)