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Yeah. A lot of the magic with NV was specificly crochety old leftists and fellow travellers writing the story, and I think all those guys, Cain and Avellone and Fargus or Feargus, whatever Brian's name was, aren't around. I hope the new guys can pick up the torch, no reason they can't. The original interplay guys weren't magic, just good writers with an understanding of America's culture and role in the world.
Fargo, he’s from that family lol the bank wells-Fargo it took me a decade to notice
Yeah, okay, that tracks. One pretty reliable way to build a leftist is to put an empathetic, curious person in one of the big bough dynasties.
One hot take I’m always mentioning to my uninitiated friends is that I’m over the moon when the second sons and daughters of our nobility use their money and power to become artists instead of executives and that line of argument has appeared compelling, effective
Tim Cain is still there actually, I believe.
Tim Cain is semi-retired - he's still working with Obsidian on a contract basis