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This shriveled raisin of a man is not only one of the most important characters in the

Fallout universe, he's also one of the most well-written in any video game.

That's because Robert Edwin House represents one of the toughest decisions you'll have

to make in a game known for its decision-making.

Even if you haven't played New Vegas, you should know by now that Mr House has his fingerprints

all over this franchise.

Why?

Because love him or hate him, this man, he kind of is Fallout.

Think about it for a second.

Can you think of any other character in Fallout's canon who is more responsible for so many

iconic images in the Wasteland?

The man is portrayed as the quintessential visionary.

1 part Steve Jobs, 1 part Elon Musk, and 2 parts Howard Hughes.

And I killed him...

Yes, I took a super sledge and barbarically exploded the brains of 261-year-old genius

who did so much for the technological advancement of mankind in Fallout's world it would make

any one of the people I just mentioned blush (if he actually existed).

I did it at the time because I thought that it was the right thing to do, and I'm just

going to assume that most of you agreed with me, since killing House is something of a

creative pastime in this community.

Look, I'm no moral authority, on this topic or any other, but I am going to invite you to

wonder with me today.

Did the smartest man in the Wasteland deserve to go out like he did, or did most of us simply

commit a crime of passion that will ultimately leave Fallout's world just a little dimmer

in the long run?

After 5 years of making lore videos on YouTube,

I've learned that it's best to avoid definitive statements.

For instance, calling Mr House "the smartest man" in the Wasteland just now.

I'm going to stand my ground on that one though, because while the Wasteland is home

to a lot of smart people, the closest characters who might match him in terms of intellect

would be the literal brains in jars at BIG Mountain, but since they donated their brains

to science before they were done with them, it can be reasonably said that Mr House is

the single most formidable human intellect in a post-war America.

You don't predict the apocalypse using mathematical algorithms, save an entire city from nuclear

annihilation, and live to tell about it a whole two centuries later unless you have

a very special brain, and Mr House knows that.

Like most of those who find themselves in positions of power, the richest man in Vegas

is inaccessible.

Throughout the game he communicates with us the player, but always at arm's length, using either

computers or his securitrons to issue his directives.

House can make a person feel small- 1) because he's a giant face on a monitor, and 2) because

he's kind of a douche.

"You aren't going to ramble on about the virtues of life out in the wastes are you?

They are however aptly named.

For that's what you'd be out there.

Wasted."

House's demeanor might be off-putting- his words insensitive- his mustache offensive-

but what happens when you put his actions under the microscope?

Is it enough to earn him the executioners ax?

When House resurrected Las Vegas from the ashes of the old world it was a ruin- picked

cleaned by scavengers and fought over by raiders.

With the city already a battleground he made alliances with the three biggest tribes and

drove the competition out.

For some, this is reason enough to force House to the guillotine, but if you consider the

fact that every other major faction has done the exact same thing in their respective rise to power rise

No, we'll want a better reason for killing Mr House in his home in Lucky 38, otherwise

we're essentially acting no different than those raiders we condemn and butcher on the

regular.

Maybe by proving he's some sort of evildoer.

Someone who uses his influence to violate the rights of others.

Well, that might prove challenging.

You see, Mr House is an old school businessman, and what makes him unique in the world of

Fallout is that he operates his wasteland settlement entirely on the basis of contracts

and mutual agreements.

You know in all my playthroughs of New Vegas, I haven't found a single character who works

directly for House and didn't sign on willingly- and the vast majority of his "employees",

as he calls them, are far better off for having done so.

The people who work for him can quit at any time, and whether you're talking about the

Three Families who were once tribals but now operate lavish casinos, or the residents of

Vault 21 who's bizarre story led to them integrate into New Vegas society- it seems

like this guy has never forced any person or group to work with him against their will.

And I'll tell you what, from a lore perceptive, that puts House a cut above most in terms

of wasteland leadership.

This isn't to say bad things don't happen in Vegas. Bad things certainly happen in Vegas and

House has killed people, but it's nearly

impossible to find anyone in the wasteland who hasn't killed to protect life or property.

Oh, and before we go blaming Mr House for the poverty found around Vegas, I'm going

to stop right there remind us that people only want to get into the Strip because of

what House has built it into over the years.

People outside the Strip are desperate because the wasteland is a desperate place.

Now, we can accuse House of not doing more to help those who are less fortunate than

him, but that's a whole different discussion.

If "not helping your neighbor" is reason enough to kill a man, then I think we're

all in trouble.

No, Vegas's biggest blemish isn't Freeside.

Instead, it's the fact that House gives his tribal friends way too much autonomy.

That's right, too much freedom.

Under contract, the king of Vegas isn't even allowed to step foot into his own casinos,

and neither is his robot security force.

This is what's to blame for all the shady things that go down on the Strip.

Even with all this taken into account though, House still might prove less controversial

than those looking to depose him.

It's almost unfair to compare House to figures like Caesar because

since taking control of the Strip, House hasn't been playing the game of wasteland conqueror.

By that I mean, he doesn't have dreams of an earthly kingdom or empire.

His head is in the stars.

"New Vegas is more than a city -

it's the remedy to mankind's

derailment.

The city's economy is a blast furnace in which can be forged the steel of a new rail line,

running straight to a new horizon.

What is the NCR?

A society of people desperate to experience comfort, ease, luxury...

A society of customers.

Give me 20 years, and I'll reignite the high technology development sectors.

50 years, and I'll have people in orbit.

100 years, and my colony ships will be heading for the stars, to search for planets unpolluted

by the wrath and folly of a bygone generation."

What I'm offering you is a ground floor opportunity in the most important enterprise on Earth.

What I'm offering is a future. For you and for what remains of the human race.

It's funny, House "plays" New Vegas like you would play Civilization if you were

going for a "science victory".

Interstellar colonization is the goal, and in that way, he offers a very compelling "long-term"

solution to mankind's current problem.

The problem of a fragile species on a fragile planet.

I feel like most of us end up killing House because we see him as a sort of dictator and

therefore a threat to freedom-loving people, but all sole-proprietors are dictators in

their own ventures right?

Remember, there's no evidence to suggest that anyone is "born" into Mr House's employment.

Working with him is completely voluntary.

I always just assumed that by siding with Mr. House I was signing the death warrant on Wasteland democracy,

but a vote for Mr. House doesn't necessarily mean a vote against a New California Republic.

Quite the opposite in fact. House's vision for the future, it's completely dependent on them.

And that makes him the single most power ally the republic has. Period.

During his dialogues, House might refer to himself as an autocrat, but he isn't an

autocrat in the way that Napoleon was, or Henry the eighth, or Caesar.

When I killed Mr House I wasn't dethroning a dictator so much as I was killing a powerful

CEO.

But wait, that's not right.

Apple's CEO doesn't command an army of killer robots… at least not yet he doesn't…

House has to be held to a higher standard right, because he's not just dealing in

bottlecaps is he?

He's dealing in human lives.

And this is where the scale starts to tip

in the other direction, because who's to say Mr House doesn't lose his mind one day

and decide to use his unchecked power for ill?

Does absolute power corrupt absolutely?

When I was a kid I ran the simulations, I can tell you for a fact that if a business

tycoon is given unchecked power and left to his own devices long enough- bad things will

happen.

There's a revealing moment in Fallout New Vegas where House slips and in doing so, shows

us his true colors.

The Brotherhood of Steel represents an organization in the Mojave that hasn't threatened, or raised

its hand against an independent New Vegas.

They do however represent something that Mr House finds abhorrent.

A stray variable.

A variable that if left alone, might tamper with one man's perfect formula for the future.

So, logically, the mathematician does what the mathematician does best.

He simplify his equation.

Unfortunately for the Brotherhood, that means killing every living soul in Hidden Valley.

People who stand up for Mr House will tell you that the Brotherhood of Steel were bound

to attack Vegas eventually anyway, so a preemptive strike like this one?

It's justified.

While we could sit here and debate the moral implications of preemptive strikes

I'm going to sidestep the issue entirely and just say this… the moment

House commits himself to an unprovoked attack- he ceases to be just another wastelander defending

his property in the interest of his employees.

He becomes something more, something that might be terribly dangerous if left unchecked.

Don't forget, this shriveled raisin was once the greatest salesman in old world America.

He does an impeccable job selling us on a dream of the stars; it's tempting.

House very well might be the perfect human specimen, but if you believe that humans are

inherently flawed, and that even the best of us falls short of fully reliable- well,

maybe unchecked power in anyone's hands is a bad idea.

There's a great quote from the British philosopher Alan Watts, and it goes like this:

By that definition, House is a tyrant.

Even if he hasn't committed a crime against you yet, the mere fact that he could and has

no accountability if he does, well- you can see how that could be a problem.

As another great philosopher once said:

So back to the original question.

Does the smartest man in the wasteland deserve the death sentence?

Well, we all have to decide for ourselves, BUT, if that answer isn't good enough for

you, the closest thing the Fallout universe has to any godly authority would the developers

who made it, and well, curiously enough- they decided to weigh in.

Apparently killing the wasteland's greatest mind won't net you good karma.

Don't be quick to mistake that for an endorsement though.

If you don't at least dethrone Mr House from his seat atop New Vegas, the game judges

you harshly for it.

The ending has Ron Pearlman straight-up accuse you of siding with a tyrant.

The decision to keep Mr House around or not will depend heavily on whether you think the

wasteland has room for yet another social experiment.

The game manual itself says as much…

Ladies and gentlemen that's it.

Some complex thoughts about a complex choice in a complex game.

If you did end up killing House, try not to feel too bad about it.

His little game of Kerbal was likely doomed to fail away because… well, ya know.

Aliens.

I've been Josh.

We'll catch ya later.

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CNN 10 - January 28, 2018 | President Obama`s Last News Conference as U.S. Leader - Duration: 10:01.

Hi.

I'm Carl Azuz for CNN 10.

Give us 10 minutes, we'll break down international news for you.

Thanks for watching this Thursday.

We're starting with report from the World Meteorological Organization.

It's part of the United Nations that studies climate.

And it says that 2016 was the Earth's warmest year on record since scientists started maintaining

temporary records in the 1880s.

Researchers say that 2016 was seven hundredths of one degree Fahrenheit warmer than 2015.

That was the previous record holder.

The U.N. organization says it used several sources like NASA, to come up with its data,

though one of them, the United Kingdom's Met Office says the temperature increase it measured

was within its margin of error, according to the BBC.

So, the record is not certain across all measurements.

One big factor in the warm temperatures was a powerful El Nino, a natural warming of Pacific

Ocean surface temperatures that affected the climate from 2015 to 2016.

But a scientist from NASA says greenhouse gas emissions, which are given off by human

activity, are responsible for warming temperatures in the long-term.

Because of the recent El Nino event has subsided, scientists do not expect 2017 to break a new

warming record.

Yesterday afternoon, U.S. President Barack Obama gave his final news conference while

in office.

It was likely the last time he'd speak in public as president.

A lot of subjects were covered, increasingly strained U.S. relations with Israel and Russia,

the relationship between the White House and the media, a recent move to reduce the sentences

of more prisoners than any other U.S. president.

It all came up.

And President Obama was asked about his successor, President-elect Donald Trump, and some of

the controversies he's been involved in.

The outgoing leader said he and the incoming one had had constructive and sometimes lengthy

conversations.

But Mr. Obama said the best piece of advice he could give to Mr. Trump was to rely on

others around him, as the presidency isn't a job that anyone can do alone.

I believe in this country.

I believe in the American people.

I believe that people are more good than bad.

I believe tragic things happen.

I think there's evil in the world.

But I think that, at the end of the day, if we work hard and if we're true to those things

in us that feel true and feel right, that the world gets a little better each time.

That's what this presidency has tried to be about, and I see in the young people I've

worked with.

At my core, I think we're going to be OK.

We just had to fight for it.

We have to work for it, and not take it for granted.

And I know that you will help us do that.

Thank you very much, press corps.

Good luck.

Ten-second trivia: In terms of when it gained independence, which

of these countries is oldest?

Austria, Morocco, Brazil, or Switzerland?

The Swiss Confederation got its independence from

the Holy Roman Empire in 1499, making it the oldest independent nation on this list.

Every winter, there's an international meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic

Forum.

It's an organization that includes politicians, businesspeople, scholars, sometimes actors,

basically movers and shakers.

They aimed to improve the world by addressing issues like poverty, conflict and the global

economy.

But the event has also been criticized as an elitist meeting that does more talking

than actual problem-solving.

Either way, the meeting that's going on right now is looking at the uncertainty of the year

ahead, like an investor or a skier might look at risk and then try to minimize it.

2016 was a year of surprises.

The word here in Davos is that 2017 could present similar challenges.

So, what are some of the risks facing the global business community?

Something that could take a nice outing and turn it into an injury, steady growth into

a global recession?

As the political and business elites gather here in Davos, 2017 could shape up to be a

year of extreme risks, and here are the biggest: U.S. going off the path and into the trees

where there's less visibility.

All eyes, if you will, will be on President Trump.

Will he blaze his own trail when it comes to trade?

U.S. involvement within the NATO alliance, and how about the U.S., for example, in the

Middle East?

How about Chinese moguls?

Economic relations with Beijing are always a little bit bumpy.

How tough will the moguls get this year?

Europe potentially going off a cliff.

One major obstacle here in Davos is the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and the

resentment that's creating within the European Union.

There are major elections this year.

France, Germany and the Netherlands, and the results could push Europe over the political

cliff (ph).

So, I've chosen the ultimate route, slow and steady, hard work but less risky, with the

ultimate goal of avoiding disaster in 2017.

These are crashes are helping researches make drones safer.

These experiments are helping predict injuries caused by drone collisions.

Dummies are rigged with sensors that measure the force of a crash.

And determine if a collision will cause a neck or brain injury.

The research is key for drone regulation in the U.S.

Researchers are hoping to make drones safer.

Facing challenges concerning military conflicts, political opposition, foreign and domestic

criticism, security threats, not to mention governing a country, it is no wonder why the

American presidency is said to cause people to age faster, at least physically.

But does that necessarily mean that U.S. leaders live shorter lives than the rest of us.

It's that time again.

Time for news organization to roll out those before and after photos to show how much our

departing president has aged.

It's been dubbed "the White House effect" and it usually involves wrinkles and white

hair, or as Michelle Obama puts it -- My very own silver fox.

Maybe you've heard there's a formula for presidential aging.

A typical president ages two years for every year they're in office.

And there really is one reason, it's the stress.

No, it's not true.

They do not age at twice the normal rate.

Longevity expert Professor J. Olhansky disputes Dr. Michael Roizen's formula.

Perhaps the graying of the hair and wrinkling of the skin may grow more rapidly as a result

of stress, but it's certainly not shortening their lives.

Professor Olhansky says research shows presidents live way longer than regular citizens.

Sure presidents look like they're going downhill in photos.

But guess what?

If you take a picture of anybody eight years apart, you're going to see the same changes

in the rest of us as you see in the presidents.

MOOS (on camera): Really?

So what?

That's me eight years ago.

Do you think the grueling life of a TV humor reporter has taken a toll?

Wonder how long it will take 70-year-old Donald Trump's hair to change shades once he's president.

Though Michelle Obama seems immune from the White House effect --

The only way to date her in photos is by looking at me.

Here we are in 2008, here we are a few years later and this one is from two weeks ago.

So, in all fairness, how about the aging of a CNN STUDENT NEWS and now, CNN 10 anchor?

Is age just a number?

Certainly, an age old question, which is itself a popular adage.

Whatever you think, the only thing I'll tell you about my own age is the same truth I would

have told you eight years ago -- I'm older than your brother but younger than your dad.

Spend another 10 minutes with us tomorrow.

We've got a special edition set up looking at the U.S. presidential inauguration, specifically

the all-important oath of office.

I'm Carl Azuz.

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