#i dont mind if ppl stan danse bc i only just met the dude

[callmemerm]

fallout bos rant

finally playing the danse quest bc i currently have no companion and...

how any of yall can swallow the brotherhood backwards ass propaganda talk is beyond me. brotherhood are hypocritical wimps in every game, beat only in the "delusional jarhead" category by the enclave

in fo4 they're intolerable. danse is just buzz lightyear before he developed a personality, convinced he's fighting a battle, but he doesn't know who against. the brotherhood always claim they're wreaking havoc for "the good of the people" but they openly despise non-brethren so by "the people" they mean themselves

a brotherhood chick literally just said to me "if you go in guns blazing it's a good way to end up dead" and like that's their whole schtick, like that's what the brotherhood DO, it's their MO, their only trick. what else are they going to do, use diplomacy? stealth infiltration? subtle propaganda? Far as i know, the only brotherhood to ever try any of those options were those in hidden valley bc they were whipped by the ncr and scurried away with their tails between their legs. McNamara is the only elder i tolerate bc he's the only brotherhood leader who ever looked at a casualty list and said "yeah we should retreat and figure things out." versus maxxson here who literally just said "a lot of people are going to die, but we have to defend humanity from itself"?????so slaughter humans again to keep humans from slaughtering humans....yeah, okay Ultron.

plus the jackwagon captain said to danse "congratulations on your successful mission" the mission where more than half the soldiers were killed and then i showed up and defended buzz lightyear from a few ghouls. like i did all the work after all the bos died but this mission was considered a "success"...dear god what do the unsuccessful missions look like?

this is why the only brotherhood member I'll ever stan is veronica bc she saw the hypocrisy and the vanity, and she saw the followers of the apocalypse actually practicing what they preached by helping people, and wanted to be like that (omg veronica's storyline tho i could talk for days)

the brotherhood of steel is just a cult no better than the children of atom or any of the zany cults in the fallout series. their thing is they worship big guns and hoard them to themselves, and hm why does that sound eerily familiar? how could a cult like that ever be construed as a BAD thing?