Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:22 PM
[the outer worlds] I want to talk about the Graveyard Fees quest and how it
immediately
shows you just how bad things are
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:25 PM
so the first planet you start out on is a frontier world and you happen to land near a small colony called Edgewater
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@OwlKnight
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:26 PM
yeah
........
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:26 PM
almost immediately upon coming to the front gate, you meet a graveyard tender named Silas and you get the chance to ask if there's any work you can do
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:26 PM
he says he needs help collecting grave fees from people in town
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:27 PM
because people
rent
graves
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:27 PM
for themselves and others
Phastivus
@Phasma
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:27 PM
the fuck
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@OwlKnight
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:27 PM
it's so fucked up
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:28 PM
So you get on that and head into town and collect fees from three people, one of them is a woman named Phyllis
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:28 PM
Phyllis is paying for Eugene's grave
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:29 PM
through your investigations you discover eugene was a receptionist at the saltuna cannery in town that Phyllis works at
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:29 PM
and he'd shot himself a while back
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:29 PM
and Phyllis, as the closest living relative, is paying for him
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:30 PM
You talk to her about him and she talks about how much of a shame it is, and jokes about how shitty the gun he used is
Freakin Bat
@ArchVile
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:31 PM
this is the future capitalists want
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:31 PM
the following conversation can happen
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:31 PM
"that's not a very nice thing to say about family"
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:31 PM
"what? Eugene isn't family."
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:31 PM
"isn't he your closest living relative?"
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:32 PM
"yeah. I was the closest living person relative to his body at the time of death. I'm the one who found him, you see. So I pay the fines"
Phastivus
@Phasma
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:34 PM
jeegus
Phastivus
@Phasma
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:34 PM
Borderlands: Capitalism is bad.
Outer Worlds:
Hold my beer and watch this.
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@OwlKnight
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:35 PM
yeah outer worlds is like if fallout new vegas and borderlands had a beautiful love child
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@OwlKnight
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:35 PM
with all the fucked up implications that would result in that
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@OwlKnight
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:35 PM
oh and the worst part about the eugene thing is that iirc doesn't she also have to pay the company bc of his suicide
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:36 PM
"Suicide's a crime, the technical term for it is irreparable damage of company property. What Eugene did to himself was
vandalism
"
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@OwlKnight
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:36 PM
because it was "damage to company property"
ѕαмѕα
@OwlKnight
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:36 PM
YEAH THAT
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@OwlKnight
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:36 PM
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:36 PM
MAN at least in borderlands you have companies that
aren't
jackasses like Jakobs and Atlas
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:39 PM
god but this leaves out another part of it which is Phyllis and another person, Conrad, conspiring over their lack of money to pay the fees
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:39 PM
and one of them going "hey"
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:39 PM
"Eugene had gold teeth"
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:40 PM
"just pry those suckers out when no one's looking"
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 7:44 PM
and this isn't even the worst part of it all
izzy.vrm
@alqemizzy
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 8:26 PM
there are no good corporations
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 9:20 PM
true
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 9:21 PM
followup: the owner of the cannery, and basically the leader of the colony, is so up corporate's ass, that he genuinely believes that everyone should eat
only
saltuna
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 9:21 PM
and the plant isn't even canning actual saltuna
Drizzmas
@lightdrizzel
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 9:21 PM
Phastivus
@Phasma
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 9:38 PM
Upton Sinclair
iiiiiin spaaaaaaaaace
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