5/11/2023 0 Comments Borderlands 2 sir hammerlock gay![]() We still do it, over and over again.Įven Athena, who sees in the Pre-Sequel what’s happening, still follows orders, because there is money involved. ![]() These villages we eradicate might not be very peaceful, but that doesn’t mean we have the right to just march on in and kill everything that moves. Sure, some of them clearly did something wrong, but usually not enough to warrant death. We just kill a bunch of people, because someone gave us money to do so. In the first game, we just rampage through the land, picking up jobs without caring about the consequences. The corporations are clearly bad, but what about the player characters? In the beginning, not much better. They know that in this part of the galaxy weapons sell, so they make them. We see at least some of them have other businesses as well (and yes, I know Pangolin and Anshin don’t manufacture guns, but they do manufacture grenade mods), but from the player’s point of view, not much else matters. On top of all that, pretty much all of the named corporations are weapons manufacturers. While Atlas seems to be beneficial for Promethea (these days) and Jacobs seems to be beloved by the swampfolk at Eden-6, Dahl has previously practically strip mined planets and abandoned countless people on them, Hyperion tried to “civilize” the galaxy by killing all those who Jack deemed bandits (including the PCs), Maliwan sees war of conquest as just business as usual and while we haven’t really encountered Vladof yet, we know from Moze’s history they were more than willing to kill off their troops for no particular reason despite their image as revolutionaries. In the third game Children of the Vault are a new political entity, which extends over huge parts of the universe, but we also meet Maliwan trying to take over Promethea and Athenas, Atlas is running Promethea and Jacobs runs Eden-6. In the Pre-Sequel Dahl, once again, has it’s fingerprints all over Elpis. In the second game Hyperion is taking over. In the first game, Atlas has arrived to take over Pandora in order to access the vault. Pandora was once a Dahl mining colony, but they decided to leave, leaving behind their armies of workers, who then formed the bandit clans, and Tannis. Well, besides the corporations who rule (at least) this particular part of the galaxy. ![]() The largest political entities in 1, 2 and Pre-Sequel seem to be the various bandit clans. Since the book was released in 2017, I do have the added benefit of having played Borderlands 3, but that only seems to make certain things clearer, rather than changing my opinions. I plan to read the book and review it, but before I do that, I thought I would write down a few words on the subject, so that I can contrast my opinions with those of the author (Kaitlin Tremblay). As of this writing, it has not arrived yet, but hopefully it will before I leave for holiday next week (not to worry: I will be moving from an area with no new covid-19 cases in quite some time to another area in a similar position). Since I enjoy the series very much and I do believe it has much to offer in terms of a message (whether intentional or not), I decided to order it. The #8 on that series is called Ain’t No Place for a Hero: Borderlands. Recently, I stumbled upon a series of books called Pop Classics.
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