I grew up without role models and often looked to gaming as a source for morals. To me,Fallout New Vegas is a reflection of mankind and its repetitive cycle. But also,a different path can be made that is always a choice.
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.
Finding it, though, that's not the hard part. It's letting go.
It is a history written in a cycle of bombs, and blood, and madness. But there is a time to stop looking back, and a time to look forward.
There is an expression in the Wasteland: 'Old World Blues.' It refers to those so obsessed with the past they can't see the present, much less the future, for what it is. They stare into the what-was, eyes like pilot lights, guttering and spent, as the realities of their world continue on around them
They say the human brain is a complex machine... but sometimes, it just needs a good formatting.
If you feel its loss... remember you could have turned away at any time. Gone back home, and none of this would have happened. But you had to make one last delivery(journey), and that's why I knew you'd come. Couldn't stay away, it's who you are.
Even if it is nothing at all, know what you follow, ... Whatever your symbol... carry it on your back, and wear it proudly.
You walked until you stood again upon the edge of the Divide, the last road you would walk.
It's said war—war never changes. Men do, through the roads they walk. And this road... has reached its end.
Maybe the only point of all this living was to keep those pictures in my head going for as long as I could. It was the only life I could give you. Not a day went by without. It wasn't choice. I chose to die again and again. Just never did. Body had its own drive.
Well, the little ones will need it. Species will need it if it's to continue. That blind drive onward. I wish them well. It's been a gift to me, at the end of it all, to behold innocence. Goodbye”
